Moonlight Shadow: The Collection
Moonlight Shadow: The Collection is a compilation album by British multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield. It was released on 22 April 2013 in the United Kingdom. The title is from Oldfield and Maggie Reilly's 1983 song "Moonlight Shadow" which topped many European charts.
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| Released | 22 April 2013 2019 (vinyl) | |||
| Recorded | 1973 – 2007 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, progressive rock | |||
| Length | 75:36 | |||
| Label | Spectrum Music | |||
| Producer | Mike Oldfield, Tom Newman, Simon Heyworth, Simon Phillips, Karl Jenkins | |||
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The album includes selections from Oldfield's recorded output with Mercury Records. Pieces from earlier in Oldfield's career were originally released on Virgin Records but have been subsequently moved to Mercury/Universal Music. It was Universal's third Oldfield compilation album in two years.
In 2019 a vinyl with a different track listing was issued with the same title and artwork.
Track listing
2013 CD release
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Tubular Bells" (Two Sides excerpt) | Mike Oldfield | Tubular Bells, 1973 | 13:28 |
| 2. | "Ommadawn" (Excerpt) | Oldfield | Ommadawn, 1975 | 3:37 |
| 3. | "In Dulci Jubilo" | Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Lucas Pearsall | Non-album single, 1975 | 2:50 |
| 4. | "First Excursion" | David Bedford, Oldfield | B-side to the "William Tell Overture" single, 1977 | 5:52 |
| 5. | "Diana" (Excerpt from "Incantations") | Oldfield | Incantations, 1978 | 6:32 |
| 6. | "Platinum" (Part One - Airborn) | Oldfield | Platinum, 1979 | 5:00 |
| 7. | "Guilty" (7" single version) | Oldfield | Non-album single, 1979 | 4:13 |
| 8. | "Blue Peter" | Herbert Ashworth-Hope | Non-album single, 1979 | 2:05 |
| 9. | "Sheba" | Oldfield | QE2, 1980 | 3:31 |
| 10. | "Mount Teidi" | Oldfield | Five Miles Out, 1982 | 4:10 |
| 11. | "Moonlight Shadow" | Oldfield | Crises, 1983 | 3:37 |
| 12. | "Good News" | Oldfield | The Killing Fields, 1984 | 1:44 |
| 13. | "Amarok" (Part one) (Two Sides excerpt) | Oldfield | Amarok, 1990 | 5:03 |
| 14. | "Slipstream" | Oldfield | Light + Shade, 2005 | 5:14 |
| 15. | "Sunset" | Oldfield | Light + Shade | 4:42 |
| 16. | "Aurora" | Oldfield | Music of the Spheres, 2008 | 3:43 |
2019 Vinyl release
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Tubular Bells" (Two Sides excerpt) | Oldfield | Tubular Bells, 1973 | |
| 2. | "Amarok" (Part one) (Two Sides excerpt) | Oldfield | Amarok, 1990 | |
| 3. | "Mike Oldfield's Stream" (Theme from Return to Ommadawn Part One) | Oldfield | Return to Ommadawn, 2017 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 4. | "Moonlight Shadow" | Oldfield | Crises, 1983 | |
| 5. | "Sailing" | Oldfield | Man on the Rocks, 2014 | |
| 6. | "Slipstream" | Oldfield | Light + Shade, 2005 | |
| 7. | "Guilty" | Oldfield | Non-album single, 1979 | |
| 8. | "Good News" | Oldfield | The Killing Fields, 1984 | |
| 9. | "In Dulci Jubilo" | Bach, Pearsall | Non-album single, 1975 |
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