MESSAGES
RED FRAME/WHITE LIGHT
sleeve
CATALOGUE DIN 6
FORMAT 7" SINGLE
LABEL DINDISC
RELEASE DATE 01/02/80
CHART 67
SLEEVE DESIGN Ben Kelly & Peter Saville
CURRENT VALUE £10 - 20
 
RUN-OUT A -
RUN-OUT B -
TRACK LISTING WRITERS PRODUCER RECORDED
RED FRAME/WHITE LIGHT Humphreys/McCluskey Orchestral Manoeuvres & Chester Valentino The Gramophone Suite, Liverpool
I BETRAY MY FRIENDS Humphreys/McCluskey Orchestral Manoeuvres & Chester Valentino The Gramophone Suite, Liverpool

NOTES

'RedFrame/White Light' had been inspired by an actual phone box used by the band outside The Railway Inn public house on the Wirral.

The distinctive intro to the song comes from a Roland CR-78 drum machine (using the 'Rhumba' beat setting), a piece of kit that also provided the percussion to OMD's classic hit 'Enola Gay'.

Some copies of the 7" release were misspressed with 'Echo Beach' by Martha And The Muffins.

Most copies of this single were pressed with the familiar grey two-tone DinDisc labels, but some copies had a rarer pale blue label and others a pink/white label.

 

TRIVIA

The telephone number in the lyrics is the actual number of the phone box near the Railway Inn. Fans would ring the number expecting to speak to Andy and Paul, forgetting to also dial the Liverpool area code. Subsequently, irate people around the country kept receiving calls from over-enthusiastic OMD fans!