Yesterday I was listening A fistul of ice cream in the car, and then I suddendly understood a Mark's line in the Oldifield book that I had never really understood before.
When talking about the LOG recording sessions, Marks says something like that about Private Investigations (it may be not the exact sentence, but it's the idea) :
"I had this outro (the one from news on the OL tour) and this other theme in italian-score-movie style. They were in the same key and seemed to fit together, so I made a song with these two tunes"
It has always sounded strange to me, because I never thought that Private Investigations sounded like "italian score movie style"...until yesterday !
I had already heard a fistul of icecream before, but not so many times, and was never really interested in
But yesterday, it struck me how it indeed sounds like all thoses scores by Nino Rota or Fiorenzo Carpi in italian movies.
The mandolin (played by Mark ?) adds this kind of sound that immediately goes into this music style.
So I wonder : if Mark said that in the Oldfiled book, does it mean that this arrangement was his first idea, and then it evolved into the one we know for Private Investigations ?
If it is the case, it would mean that A fistul of ice cream does not come from a Private Investigations re-arrangement, but it's the reverse !
Private Investigations is a re-arrangement from A fistul of ice cream !