16 Yr Old Wrote 80s Song on CHEAP SYNTH from a MAIL ORDER CATALOG…Sold 5 Million!-Professor of Rock
3,301Coming up, the legendary duo Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, or OMD for short, tells the story of their career in 5 key songs that helped invent the iconic sound of the 80s. So get this, they wrote their first big song “Electronic” when they were teenagers forming an underground synth duo, and it ended up selling 5 million copies of their single ENOLA GAY, which was written and recorded on a cheap synth they bought out of a mail order catalog… They got bigger with every release and but in the mid-80s, they were called in at a moment’s notice to write the theme for the 1986 film Pretty In Pink after a test screening went sideways. If You Leave was a last minute scramble that had them staying up all night to write and record the song and then when the song was too long at over 5 minutes they fudged the number on the tape saying it was 4 and half minutes so it would get played on the radio and it became a smash. The interview is next on Professor of Rock.
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Well, I’m excited to bring you another edition of our show, RETRO-Spective. Where an artist takes us through their 5 biggest hits and gives us the inside baseball on their perspective. Today we have Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark or OMD for short and the story of their 80s centric hits Enola Gay, Joan of Ark, Maid or Orleans, Sovineer and their Top 4 hit from Pretty in Pink, If You Leave. There are some amazing stories here including Enola Gay that was controversial at the time because it covered the bomb and it ended up selling 5 million copies in Europe and it was recorded on a cheap mail order synth by OMD when the were still undergroup and then there’s the famous story of If You Leave which they wrote when Pretty In Pink had a terrible test screening. They had one night to do it and had to fudge the numbers. Hear the story from them next on Professor of Rock… Let’s get into it.