Album · Mike Oldfield
Five Miles Out by Mike Oldfield
Five Miles Out is an album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1982. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Five Miles Out”, on 1 list with a best position of #554.
Five Miles Out, Mike Oldfield's seventh studio album, came out on Virgin in the UK on 19 March 1982, self-produced and made with members of the touring band he'd taken out behind QE2. Side one is given over to "Taurus II", a 24-minute epic that rolls through moods like weather over a moor; side two packs in four shorter songs.
Two of those, "Family Man" and "Orabidoo", are credited to Oldfield together with his band, which included singer Maggie Reilly, drummer Morris Pert and guitarist Rick Fenn. The title track and "Family Man" went out as singles, and "Family Man" became a bigger hit once Hall and Oates covered it. Peaking at number 7, the album broke a seven-year run without a UK top 10 album for Oldfield and kicked off a commercially fruitful stretch, backed by a 100-date world tour that was the largest of his career.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Five Miles Out on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five Miles Out | 1 | #554 | – | 1991 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.