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As you may know, I don’t always write 'I love you baby'. During their brief spell under Wilson’s wings, McCluskey and Humphreys had toured as a Factory package with Joy Division and A Certain Ratio. “Paul Tibbets, the pilot, named the plane after his mum. Bomb the Bass. "The contention was within the band and within our own management. So many contradictions and different points of view as to whether the Japanese would have surrendered because the Russians were about to come into the war…[Or that] the dropping of the bomb was actually to demonstrate to the Russians what the Americans could do. It was like I was writing a dissertation or something.” Humphreys was out helping to repair a public swimming pool at nearby Hoylake as part of a back to worth scheme (he was living on benefits trying to get OMD up and running). You Dropped A Bomb On Me. Because of the title Enola Gay was thought by some to be a gay anthem. I thought - 'oh maybe I could sing about that Enola Gay plane'." When I heard it, I thought it was a hit. It was our first song that wasn’t written by us both. It has at least three layers of meaning.” We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. And so it proves. The label was run by Carol Wilson, and was essentially a thank you gift to her from Richard Branson after she had discovered Sting and the Police. The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes There must be dozens of classic Fifties hits with this same cycle. The Impossibles. He kept turning down jobs so he could sit in his mum’s room and write songs with me,” McCluskey remembers. We were definitely influenced by the production and the darkness of Joy Division – it started to infuse our own music.”“We discussed the irony of the lyric in the studio. But one thing you cannot deny is that it was an absolute atrocious thing to do. But it was also a lament for “The record company instantly thought, 'oh we’ve got a potential hit',” recalls McCluskey. The Covidiocy Chronicles: Angelina Jolie chooses style over sense Yet at the time its lyrics were sometimes misunderstood. You had this dilemma that it turned out to be poppier than you had anticipated [but] the lyrics are quite dark. “I got out my book of words and look at my research,” he reflects. “It was quite a slog collecting the lyrics.
Our manager at the time thought it was cheesy pop crap.”The manager threatened to quit. The pilot, Paul Tibbets, always felt that he had done the right thing. It’s a moral maze. “I had written it before Ian died,” says McCluskey. It’s about what happened – and how it happened.” The song itself had come together relatively quickly. Brian has unearthed outtakes by Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Costello and hundreds of other artists for reissues. Within a few weeks of that first show supporting a stand-up comic at Eric’s in Liverpool, Tony Wilson of trendy Factory Records up the road in Manchester, told them they were the future of pop.Wilson had been persuaded to listen to their demo tape by his wife, Lindsay, who found it chucked in a bag of cast-offs in his glove box.
The line “Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today?”, in particular, functions at several levels, says McCluskey. They would bring credibility to DinDisc whilst also, she anticipated, shifting a spectacular number of records. I Fagiolini, Voces8 Festival, review: 'A different class of online music-making' He had to go on some work employment scheme. “He finally couldn’t turn one down any more. “OMD were a perfect fit for what I had in mind for DinDisc — they had a serious, artistic side with real depth, as well as a commercial, pop side,” she would say. Not quite up to the chart topping popularity of album mate’s ”Outstanding” and ”Early in the Morning”, 1982’s ”You Dropped a Bomb on Me”, is nevertheless regarded as the defining song, and the brightest moment, for the Gap Band.
That’s when I wrote the music. It’s about the moral dilemma.
It was meant to be a lark – hence their relatively inelegant name, cobbled together in haste from song ideas scribbled on McCluskey’s bedroom wall (OMD won out over “Margaret Thatcher’s Afterbirth”). As the world marks the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima this week, his feelings remain nuanced. The sense of loss was still heavy in the air that summer as OMD retreated to Ridge Farm Studio in West Sussex to record their Organisation album (named for the Düsseldorf collective that spawned Kraftwerk), and with it Enola Gay. So he wasn’t there. Paul Tibbets and Enola Gay.
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