Enola Gay by OMD - Songfacts

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY
• OMD - ENOLA GAY LYRICS
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY

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, 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 LYRICS

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.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

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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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.

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

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Oho Enola Gay, should've fad our dreams away. Good lotn: cy centre, another gay club (911) the nearby area and a gay iendly hostel next to stay (Inga Hotels).

26/09/80 Enola Gay. Enola Gay had actually been wrten around the time of the first album but rerdg for the Organisatn album proved to be a tratg experience. In fact the fal versn of Enola Gay eventually end up beg a posn of var vols taken om both the Ridge Farm and Advisn ssns.

Enola Gay was also OMD's first big ternatnal h, reachg No. Such is Enola Gay’s stant appeal, has gone on to sell more than five ln pi. “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.

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”Enola Gay was the only sgle om the OMD’s 1980 album Organisatn.

OMD - Enola Gay (Easy Piano) Sheet mic for Piano (Solo) |. OMD – ‘Enola Gay’ Equally oblique was OMD’s ‘Enola Gay’, which grazed the UK Top 10 October 1980. ‘Enola Gay’ was, of urse, the soubriquet given to the B-29 Super Fortrs bomber that dropped the first nuclear warhead over Hiroshima at 8.

’ remds that ‘Enola Gay’ was not only the name of pilot Pl Tibbet’s mother, but ‘Ltle Boy’ was the affectnate tle given to the bomb, which killed over 200, 000 Japane civilians. Like OMD’s ‘Enola Gay’, the nventnal chos vol is substuted by a synth le that be the song’s signature hook. While this juxtaposn of sex and ath articulat self the vernacular of Cold War rhetoric, n also be read-off agast the fight wh the body’s own immune system and the terrifyg spectacle of HIV and AIDS amongst the gay muny durg this perd.