3 examples of often radio played songs in B minor

To France - Mike Oldfield


Moi Lolita - Alizee


I just died in your arms tonight - Cutting Crew


The B minor KEY or scale has every C to be  C sharp (the one step on the right black key from C) and every F to be  F sharp (the one step on the right black key from F).


The first two songs seem also to have the hit song ingredient Varispeed as used by ABBA and others, possibly Demis Roussos too to make the voice sound younger.


It is interesting reading interviews on how drummer Simon Philps self taught mostly and firstly taught by his father was shown by Mike Oldfield on using the console while they were making masterpieces like Moonlight Shadow and to France. He spent many many days trying to instal the mic inside the bass drum to get that beautiful beat sound. Mike Oldfield was using a rhyming dictionary as an aid to write these fabulous lyrics.


Not many songs are written in B minor. For some reason its chords sound so beautiful,