Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - "Enola Gay"

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark released the single "Enola Gay" in 1980. It is now remembered as one of the great synth songs from the 80's. In fact the synth sound was so good it took care of the chorus by itself. However, as you all probably know, the theme of the song is quite different to the uplifting pop sound. The title itself is taken from the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Named by the pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets after his mother Enola Gay Tibbets.
It is as much an anti-war song as it is a protest song, I suspect. Margaret Thatcher had allowed US missiles to be stationed in the UK at the time and it may have also coincided with talk of the Smithsonian Institution putting the plane on display. Something that did eventually happen decades later at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.