OMD - Enola Gay COVER by Albert Chords - Chordify

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY VERS
• HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY
• ENOLA GAY: HOW OMD MA POIGNANT POP OM THE ASH OF HIROSHIMA
• ENOLA GAY (PIANO AND STRGS COVER) - OMD CHORDS
• OMD - ENOLA GAY COVER BY ALBERT CHORDS
• ENOLA GAY
• THE 40 GREATT SYNTH SOUNDS OF ALL TIME, NO 39: OMD - ENOLA GAY
• OMD ENOLA GAY MIC VIO

ENOLA GAY VERS

Songfacts®:The Enola Gay was the Amerin plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima World War II. It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the plane's pilot, Pl Tibbets.

Some even thought was a d msage that we were gay.

HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY

The most famo and fluential sgle bomber was Enola Gay. "The BBC misperceived "Enola Gay" as beg a homosexual love song and banned on the kids' show Swap Shop. Also had the knack for wrg chart-botherg and tchy sgl, none more so than Enola Gay.Wh s tle, and spiratn, taken om the name of the aeroplane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Augt 1945, the song is most memorable for s tchy synth hook – somewhat at odds wh the sombre subject matter.

ENOLA GAY: HOW OMD MA POIGNANT POP OM THE ASH OF HIROSHIMA

Such is Enola Gay’s stant appeal, has gone on to sell more than five ln pi.

In fact, was banned om beg played on the BBC children’s programme Swap Shop – not bee of the events referenced the track, but a bizarre misterpretatn that was promotg homosexualy.Here, Andy McClkey talks through the creatn of the ternatnal h which ntu to pose a moral dilemma… More ‘How I wrote’ featurReleased: 26 September 1980. I also had a fascatn for warfare, not a celebratory way but a sense that I was drawn by the horror of and the moral dilemma that people were allowed to do thgs war that were illegal at tim of peace.“If you’re terted Send World War aeroplan then ultimately you have to e to the one that effectively end the war, the B-29 Superfortrs the Enola Gay that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. I still have a rg br which has my not on the Enola Gay and I n see that I ed some of those not to help wh the lyrics.“The mic always has to e first wh Orchtral Manovr the Dark.

The Enola Gay was Pl Tibbets’ mother’s name. It has a pth and a darkns and a requirement to ask yourself moral qutns.”Enola Gay was the only sgle om the OMD’s 1980 album Organisatn.

ENOLA GAY (PIANO AND STRGS COVER) - OMD CHORDS

ENOLA GAY TAB by Orchtral Manovr the Dark (OMD) @.

“Enola Gay”, Orchtral Manovr the Dark’s (OMD’s) wonrfully dulgent synthpop classic named after the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, has jt turned 40. While the last 40 years have seen OMD produce multiple chartg rerds, break to Ameri wh Pretty Pk‘s “If You Leave”, and more recently, rerd the crilly acclaimed The Punishment of Luxury, ’s “Enola Gay” that most hontly ptur the band’s triumphant legacy.

Synthizg tellectual lyrics wh popular sensibili, “Enola Gay” reflects bandmat Andy McClkey and Pl Humphreys’ efforts to brg the cerebral and often, monplace, to the mastream. More than any of their other songs, “Enola Gay” is evince of how OMD masterfully ptured the ncerns of the morn world and packaged them up such a way that they won over the mastream. I’m here to talk to you about the 40th anniversary of “Enola Gay”, the lead sgle om your send album, Organisatn.

OMD - ENOLA GAY COVER BY ALBERT CHORDS

The lyrics and tle of “Enola Gay” expose your love of history and efforts to make telligent pop mic. You followed up “Enola Gay”/Organisatn wh Dazzle Ships, and didn’t perform as well as you had hoped.

Tell me how this lks wh your recent remix of “Enola Gay”, the llaboratn wh Hot Chip, and puttg out the 12-ch vyl? The human era lns and lns of years, when there are no longer homo sapiens on the pla.

ENOLA GAY

They believe now that you will be able to look back to the sediments, that’s if there’s a sentient beg that after , you’ll be able to look back and go, oh, that’s where the homo sapiens were.

You n see where the homo sapiens were 200 ln years ago; ’s the Anthropocene era. “If you’re terted Send World War aeroplan then ultimately you have to e to the one that effectively end the war, the B-29 Superfortrs the Enola Gay that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. I still have a rg br which has my not on the Enola Gay and I n see that I ed some of those not to help wh the lyrics.

THE 40 GREATT SYNTH SOUNDS OF ALL TIME, NO 39: OMD - ENOLA GAY

”Enola Gay was the only sgle om the OMD’s 1980 album Organisatn. OMD were, by ntrast, hugely ambivalent about Enola Gay. However, he had a dramatic change of heart as the tumn of 1980 Enola Gay rocketed up the charts, reachg number eight the UK and number one Spa and Italy.

McClkey himself has gone back and forth over the years about Enola Gay, named for the Boeg B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the bomb Augt 1945. Pl Tibbets and Enola Gay.

OMD ENOLA GAY MIC VIO

I thought - 'oh maybe I uld sg about that Enola Gay plane'.