OMD have announced the release of a special, limed lored vyl reissue of their classic h, Enola Gay, to mark s 40th anniversary.
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- HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY
- OMD CELEBRATE 40 YEARS OF ENOLA GAY WH LIMED EDN 12”
- OMD RELEASE SPECIAL 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDN OF CLASSIC H, ‘ENOLA GAY’
- ENOLA GAY
HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY
" Enola Gay", Orchtral Manovr the Dark's (OMD's) wonrfully dulgent synthpop classic named after the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima,... * omd enola gay single *
“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 CELEBRATE 40 YEARS OF ENOLA GAY WH LIMED EDN 12”
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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.
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OMD RELEASE SPECIAL 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDN OF CLASSIC H, ‘ENOLA GAY’
Learn how 'Enola Gay', OMD's electro-pop classic wh one of the tchit synth melodi history, was spired by the droppg of the atomic bomb * omd enola gay single *
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"The BBC misperceived "Enola Gay" as beg a homosexual love song and banned on the kids' show Swap Shop. Such is Enola Gay’s stant appeal, has gone on to sell more than five ln pi.
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The Enola Gay was Pl Tibbets’ mother’s name. ”Enola Gay was the only sgle om the OMD’s 1980 album Organisatn.