Following the Angels

Album: Man On The Rocks (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song finds Oldfield paying tribute to the exhilarating experience of performing at the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, during a segment about the National Health Service. "I am a man of extremes," he grinned to The Daily Telegraph. "I couldn't believe it when Danny Boyle called me – it was just about the only offer that could have lured me away from my beloved Bahamas."

    "I did have a bit of stage fright before I went on knowing that everyone was watching: the queen, the world," he continued. "But once out there the whole experience was blissful. Everything was raining down from my perspective: the lights, the fireworks, the interlocking rings, James Bond, the Mary Poppinses... It was so inspiring."

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