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Mike Oldfield

Platinum

1979

© GlassPages, 1997

Cover Picture

References

• Virgin Records CDV 2141.

Credits

• Mike Oldfield: Electric & acoustic guitars; piano & synthesizer; vibraphone & marimbas; & vocals.
• Pierre Moerlin: Drums (also vibraphone).
• Alan Schwartzberg & Maurice Pert: Drums.
• Niel Jason, Hansford Rowe, Francisco Centeno: Bass.
• Nicko Ramsden & Peter Lember: Keyboards.
• Sally Cooper: Tubular bells.
• Horns arranged by Peter Gordon & Michael Riesman.
• Vocals arranged by David Bedford.
• Vocal on 'I got rhythm' by Wendy Roberts.
• Congas: Demalza.
• Engineered by Kurt Munkacsi & Tom Newman.
• Assistant engineers: Richard Manwaring & Renate Blauel.
• Produced by Tom Newman.
• Recorded at Electric Lady & Blue Rock USA; Througham, Denham & the Manor U. K.
• Mixed at Air Studios.
• © 1979 Virgin Records Ltd..

Tracks

1. Platinum (Parts 1-4).

Part 1: Airbone (5:06).

Part 2: Platinum (6:03).

Part 3: Charleston (3:17).

Part 4: Based on North Star by Philip Glass / Platinum finale (4:43).

2. Woodhenge (4:06).
3. Sally (5:00).
4. Punkadiddle (4:56).
5. I got rhythm (4:40).

Total Time 37:51.

Links

Mike Oldfield Link Page.

Notes

November 1979 found a dapper Oldfield softshoe shuffling his way back onto the scene with a swinging new version of Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm", Wendy Roberts taking the lead vocal. The choice of song was a symbolic nod to a composer of an earlier generation who had also cut through barriers of social snobbery to write both pop and symphonic works. In another salute, the title track of "Platinum" quoted from Philip Glass' "North Star", a tribute to a contemporary working in a parallel field of endeavour.

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