Old Enough to Forget

I was ten when this came out, and like most people it was the eerie piano run used on The Exorcist that captured everyone's imagination. I never saw the movie, although surprisingly my dad had a copy of the book by William Peter Blatty. All I knew it was supposed to be so scary people were having heart attacks in the theatre. My uncle Lloyd had a copy of the album, and all I remember is him playing the record once through the first part of side a, and it was mesmerizing. I can still see him standing by the stereo holding the record in his hands while the opening played. He then casually mentioned that Mike Oldfield played just about everything himself on the album. That stuck with me. I never forgot it. I wanted to be able to do that. Over the years I never really thought much about Mike Oldfield. His name would pop up again in the early '80s when Hall & Oates hat a hit with "Family Man" and I never really liked Hall & Oates, but that was a cool song. After t...