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| "Enola Gay" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | ||||
| from the album Organisation | ||||
| B-side | "Annex" | |||
| Released | 26 September 1980[1] | |||
| Studio | Ridge Farm Studio (Dorking) | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:33 | |||
| Label | Dindisc | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Andy McCluskey | |||
| Producer(s) | ||||
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| "Enola Gay" on YouTube | ||||
"Enola Gay" is a 1980 song by British band Orchestal Manoeuvres in the Dark and was the only single from their second studio album Organisation. It went to number 8 in the United Kingdom, number 1 in Spain, Portugal and Italy, number 14 in Ireland, number 31 in New Zealand, number 6 in France and number 47 in Australia.
- ↑ Cite error: The named reference
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) made the haunting shadows left behind by the flashburnt victims of the first atomic bombs into the synthpop hit 'Enola Gay', which imagines an eternal kiss that is 'never gonna fade away'.
- ↑ Pirnia, Garin (12 June 2012). "Enola Gay". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- ↑ QUINN, COLE. "Songs so good, they make the album look bad". The Daily Evergreen.