Man In Rain
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Posted: Nov. 15 2000, 11:06 |
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On different sites I found:
'The album was inspired by a near tragic flight on his preceding tour, where a small aircraft piloted by Mike hit a terrible storm.'
'Mike listed his recreations as "aviation (light aircraft, helicopters)". He had gained his pilot's license in 1979, and a flying incident a year later provided the inspiration for the title song of the 1982 album Five Miles Out. In August 1980, Mike was piloting a two-engined Piper Navajo over the Pyrenees mountain range in Spain when the aircraft was caught in a thunderstorm. "We were tossed about like a pancake and there was ice collecting on the propellers and rain on the windscreen and everybody was going "Aaargh"!" he told an interviewer. The incident was also commemorated in a painting specially commissioned by Mike from a renowned aviation artist.'
So besides making the best music of the world, he is also a qualified pilot and likes aviation! That makes me the most devoted fan of him!!!
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