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Yelbakk Started conversation Mar 11, 2002
In Mike Oldfield's song, Moonlight Shadow, there is the line 'Caught in the middle of a 105'. Does anyone know the significance of that, other than the need to rhyme?
Yelbakk 
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Mar 11, 2002
Looks like a police radio code:
105 - traffic control
I don't think that it's the Disneyland code:
105 - Attraction is operating at full capacity 
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Yelbakk Posted Jan 25, 2010
Can't believe it's been almost eight years since I asked this, and suddenly I found the answer.
The song is about the murder of John Lennon. The "105" is actually 105 people who were around to witness the crime:
"The meaning of the line "Caught in the middle of a hundred and five" caused confusion for many years. Oldfield was finally asked about its meaning in an interview for his web site in 1995: "Well, it was a hundred and five people, just signifying a large amount of people, and presumably it was a hundred and five rather than a hundred and four or whatever because "five" rhymed with the next line!"."
Quote from: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2895
Knew you'd be interested.
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