Five Miles Out

about this song

"Five Miles Out" has a complex structure despite its short length, and the lyrics are about Oldfield's experience of a near-tragic flight. Maggie Reilly sings with a clean voice while Oldfield uses a vocoder most of the time himself. Drummer Morris Pert also sings a few lyrics in the "Piltdown Man" voice first heard in part two of Tubular Bells, with Oldfield following with dramatic, delayed vocals in the bridge. The song features the same guitar

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