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
Contents:
- OMD – ENOLA GAY
- ENOLA GAY
- HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY
- THE 40 GREATT SYNTH SOUNDS OF ALL TIME, NO 39: OMD - ENOLA GAY
OMD – ENOLA GAY
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Official mic vio 'Enola Gay' performed by 'OMD' taken om the album 'Organisatn' (1980). Lyrics of 'OMD – Enola Gay'. Enola Gay.
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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. Some even thought was a d msage that we were gay.
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HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY
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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.
Named after the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb to be ed anger at the end of WWII, Enola Gay’s cheery synth l were ntrast to the sombre lyrics, which qutned the validy of the cisn to drop a nuclear bomb on drew spiratn for their mic om early synth pneers such as Kraftwerk, but had a relatively humble selectn of synths and dm mach at their disposal when they wrote the album Organisatn, released 1980, om which Enola Gay was taken.