Formed in 1978 by school friends Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, who had already played together in other Merseyside bands, OMD became the perfect home for their Kraftwerk-inspired synth-pop. With 25 million singles and 15 million albums sold worldwide, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) have guaranteed their place in the annals of music history. How the electro-pop classic, with one of the catchiest synth melodies, was inspired by the dropping of the atomic bomb Publisher on 27 February 2020 at 11:04 pm
