{"id":1515,"date":"2026-01-19T19:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:12:47","slug":"now-thats-what-i-call-stuarts-favourite-music-97-mike-oldfield-featuring-jon-anderson-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/uncategorized\/now-thats-what-i-call-stuarts-favourite-music-97-mike-oldfield-featuring-jon-anderson-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Now That\u2019s What I Call Stuart\u2019s Favourite Music 97 \u2013 \u00a0Mike Oldfield (Featuring Jon Anderson) \u2013 Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Now97.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Now97.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1516\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.8651801991305568;width:283px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Now97.png 847w, https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Now97-260x300.png 260w, https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Now97-768x888.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mike Oldfield collaborated with many artists throughout his career, and one of my all-time favourites is Shine, released in 1986 and featuring Yes co-founder Jon Anderson. Issued as a non-album single by Virgin Records, it arrived during a period when Oldfield was moving away from his instrumental roots and towards more accessible, lyric-driven pop songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shine didn\u2019t set the UK charts alight, only managing to scrape in at number 100. It fared much better in continental Europe, however \u2014 particularly in Germany, where it peaked at number 31 and stayed in the Top 100 for eight weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love it, so of course it\u2019s earned a place on my favourites list. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MDEhcY8u1wk?si=jESKhWjvoI5ys33F\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Oldfield collaborated with many artists throughout his career, and one of my all-time favourites is &hellip; <a title=\"Now That\u2019s What I Call Stuart\u2019s Favourite Music 97 \u2013 \u00a0Mike Oldfield (Featuring Jon Anderson) \u2013 Shine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/uncategorized\/now-thats-what-i-call-stuarts-favourite-music-97-mike-oldfield-featuring-jon-anderson-shine\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now That\u2019s What I Call Stuart\u2019s Favourite Music 97 \u2013 \u00a0Mike Oldfield (Featuring Jon Anderson) \u2013 Shine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1343,1373,1369,1361,1346,1477],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-80s","tag-favourite-music","tag-jon-anderson","tag-mike-oldfield","tag-music","tag-shine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}