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Laughably, the record was allegedly banned from being played on a BBC children's programme because it was deemed to be a coded homosexual love song. McCluskey later said the song was ambivalent about whether it was the right or the wrong thing to do. It's memorable and upbeat keyboard hook contrasts with the dark theme of the lyrics, intentionally making the record ambiguous. There was no turning back.įascinated by World War II bombers, lead singer Andy McCluskey wrote OMD's masterpiece more as a commentary rather than an outright anti-war song. "Aha, this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away." As the bomber headed home, photographs captured the billowing mushroom cloud rising four miles into the atmosphere, instantly becoming the fearful symbol of the nuclear age the world had entered. Within one mile of ground zero, the intense light and heat had ignited all combustible materials and burnt shadows of vaporised people onto walls and pavements. "Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today?" The 10-ton atomic bomb called Little Boy had exploded 1,900ft above the city, killing 80,000 people instantly. "We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you're coming home." The US airbase on Tinian Island in the Pacific Ocean received the communication that the top secret mission had been successful the world's first atomic weapon had been dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. "…and that's the time that it's always been." Inside the rubble of his flattened house, he would later find his father's scorched pocket watch little remained apart from a ghostly imprint of the hands seared onto its face, forever marking the moment the bomb exploded.
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In an instant, his entire body was consumed by searing pain, as if he had been doused in boiling water the skin hung off his burnt body like ragged clothes. Then he heard a blast like the sound of the universe exploding. "It's 8:15…" In disbelief, Mikamo saw a gigantic fireball brighter than the sun racing towards him.
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He wiped sweat from his brow as he admired the view of the city below. Under the clear skies of the fine summer morning, Shinji Mikamo had finished his breakfast of millet and grass porridge, and climbed onto the roof of his house to remove clay tiles. Beneath the studded cockpit windows, the aircraft bore the name of the pilot's mother: Enola Gay. Lightened by disgorging its deadly cargo, the B-29 bomber rose suddenly in the air, banked steeply and flew away at full throttle. No difficulty ratings are shown for ポップンミュージック and its American/European counterparts.UK picture sleeve, UK labels The Story Behind The Song