Moonlight Shadow

『Moonlight Shadow』發表於 1983 年，是從我國中開始聽音樂以來，一直很喜歡的一首歌。姑且不論關於它的一些流言和傳奇，歌曲本身輕快優美的旋律搭配憂傷卻又晦暗不明的歌詞，就已經是一大賣點；Mike Oldfield 的吉他演奏絕對是箇中精華，而在聽過無數歌手演繹過之後，我還是最喜歡原唱 Maggie Reilly 的版本。Reilly 的聲音清亮，但很能融入輕快又隱晦的曲子裡，而當吉他 solo 的時候，卻又恰如其分的隱入後方不攖其鋒。

雖然這首歌被很多人認為在紀念被槍殺的披頭四主唱 John Lennon，但在 1995 年一段對 Oldfield 的訪談裡，問到這首歌是否真的與 John Lennon 有關，他這樣回答：

"Not really... well, perhaps, when I look back on it, maybe it was. I actually arrived in New York that awful evening when he was shot and I was staying at the Virgin Records house in Perry Street, which was just a few blocks down the road from the Dakota Building where it happened, so it probably sank into my subconscious. It was originally inspired by a film I loved - 'Houdini', starring Tony Curtis, which was about attempts to contact Houdini after he'd died, through spiritualism... it was originally a song influenced by that, but a lot of other things must have crept in there without me realising it."

雖然 Oldfield 也說可能有某些東西潛入其中，不過我仍然認為這曲子跟 Lennon 的關係只是偶然的誤會，實際看過歌詞和 PV 就會發現，彼此的牽連其實很薄弱。但無論如何，這都是一首值得反覆聆聽的好歌。