I’ve got a secret… When OMD returned with their sixth studio album Crush back in 1985 it marked a new evolution in how the band approached writing music. The arrival of Stephen Hague handling production duties also contributed to this … Read More
Boy saw the girl and the girl saw the boy… Following 1984’s Junk Culture album and tour, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys embarked on an industrious songwriting period even before the year was out. Relocating to Amazon Studios in Liverpool, … Read More
Heaven is cold… 2025 sees the 40th anniversary of Crush, OMD’s sixth studio album and one that’s largely seen as the band’s ‘American Album’ which finally managed to give them the Stateside success that OMD had been trying to achieve … Read More
To the shores of Sealand… With an extensive musical career that stretches back over several decades, it’s understandable that many people will have their own particular favourite OMD album. Some plump for the band’s imperial phase (encompassing the first four … Read More
In 1989, the classic four-piece line-up of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark split up. Following a well-publicised legal tussle, singer Andy McCluskey took the OMD name, while the remaining members formed The Listening Pool. Barry Page tells the story. In … Read More
It’s a long long way… Thirty years ago, OMD scored back-to-back top 10 hit singles for the first time since their commercial and artistic peak in the early 1980s, but it was a success that was achieved without three of … Read More
Like time was standing still… Straddling the gap between OMD’s Crush and The Pacific Age albums, OMD’s phenomenally successful single ‘If You Leave’ was a bit of an oddity. It embraced the smoother, more organic (and certainly more US-friendly) style … Read More
We won’t forget… ‘If You Leave’ is one of OMD’s more unusual releases, emerging as a standalone single in 1986 on the back of its inclusion in the film Pretty In Pink, where it served as the soundtrack to that … Read More
A tough year… 2020 hasn’t exactly been a good year with the advent of the Covid-19 crisis, live gigs effectively being written off and the OMD community suffering some tragic losses. But it’s also the year that’s marked some special … Read More
A vision fading fast… Today marks the 40th Anniversary of Organisation, OMD’s second album release and also the album that showed the band taking a more serious step into music as a business – as well as changing some significant … Read More