The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
720-Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark-Enola Gay.
1980-Number 8 Single.
Best Bit-At 2.20.When the song was first released it was misperceived by some as a homosexual love song.As such,the track was banned from being played on the BBC children’s programme Swap Shop.
The Enola Gay was the American plane that dropped the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima in World War 2.It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets,the mother of the plane’s pilot,Paul Tibbets.
‘It’s 8.15 and that’s the time it’s always been’ refers to all the clocks and watches in Hiroshima frozen at 8.15 AM by the electromagnetic pulse created by the atomic detonation.
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