![]() On 1980’s breakup ballad ‘Stanlow’, lead singer Andy McCluskey pours his heart out to the oil refinery of the same name. OMD know the soothing power of having a place to come home to as much as anyone. We must never ignore the horrors of this world, it seemed to say, but we can counter them with joy every time.īack in the present, as cracks spread once more across our international relations and our funding-starved cinemas get a boost from Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic of Oppenheimer (is mother proud of Little Boy today?), OMD rise like phoenixes from the mushroom cloud that again haunts our nightmares. ![]() ‘Enola Gay’, with its pert, punchy, gleeful instrumental chorus and its lyrics full of post-Hiroshima guilt, made the top ten while nuclear war loomed large over the hopes of millions. No less than 43 years ago, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ushered in the 80s by releasing one of its perfect singles.
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