I didn't know anything about the world, just for one reason or another - mental instability, some hallucinogenic drugs maybe, the circumstances of my childhood. There's good and bad, there's all areas of life: there's comedy, there's ugliness, there's beauty, there's everything in it, all made by my young self. "There's a lot of joy in it and there's a lot of suffering in it.
"I was so focused, and I put all my concentration and all my energy - emotional, spiritual, physical even - into it," he told Top 2000 a gogo. He was broke, living in a shoddy apartment in the North of London, and working as a bass player in the Arthur Lewis Band. Oldfield was 17 when he started working on it, 19 when it was released. Without words, this song conveys a rich texture of emotions that reflect Oldfield's state of mind when he wrote it.
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