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
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HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY
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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.
ENOLA GAY
" 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 reaction *
“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. 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.
Enola Gay, the B-29 heavy bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target, and stroyed most of the cy. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Pl Warfield Tibbets, Jr. * omd enola gay reaction *
Tell me how this lks wh your recent remix of “Enola Gay”, the llaboratn wh Hot Chip, and puttg out the 12-ch vyl?