“I was always uneasy about the fact that it was a bright, perky pop song about a nuclear holocaust, but it was insanely catchy”: How OMD recorded one of the best anti-war songs ever made

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Enola Gay is not only one of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's most memorable tracks, it is one of the most poignant, bittersweet and perhaps contradictory pop songs ever written.

It’s an incredibly hooky, catchy and pitch perfect chart hit, yes, but it's also about the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, at precisely 08:15am, which ultimately killed 140,000 people.