Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, also known as OMD, formed in 1978 in northwest England.
But the popular new wave band who recorded the original version happens to be in the news themselves because of a brand-new studio album, their thirteenth, that dropped on September 1 st. A discussion about a 1980 synth-pop song that references the atomic bombing of Hiroshima may run the risk of being, unintentionally, too close to current world events.
