This was the first of 7 Top-10 UK singles for the group their only US hit was 'If You Leave,' which was written for the 1985 movie Pretty In Pink. OMD is the shortened form of the band's full name: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark.The most famous and influential single bomber was Enola Gay. Some even thought it was a coded message that we were gay. So why did the electronic music group OMD write a song about it? In our 2010 interview, we asked their lead singer Andy McCluskey, who replied: 'Many people simply don't know what it's actually about. It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the plane's pilot, Paul Tibbets. The Enola Gay was the American plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.OMD - Enola Gay Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos
