The song was covered several times in 2007. Also in 2001, the indie synthpop band The Faint covered the song on Messages: Modern Synthpop Artists Cover Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Serbian punk rock band KBO! recorded a version on their 2001 cover album (Ne) Menjajte Stanicu ((Do Not) Change The Station). Thedio (1997) a cover (many of their songs are covers) with the music of "Enola Gay" and self-penned Spanish lyrics, with the title "Manolo es Gay" (Manolo Is Gay). Spanish pop-rock group Los Petersellers included in their second LP Contra la amenaza del Dr. Unusually, the 12" single contained no additional material or alternative mixes, only the same tracks as on the 7". The still photo from the album cover is taken from the video. After the opening riff which is shown as just the keyboardist's hands playing it whilst being animated using digital rotoscoping, it shows a transparent video image of McCluskey vocalising and playing a bass guitar. The music video begins by showing sped up footage of clouds passing over sky. The song was also released during a major controversy surrounding then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's decision to allow US nuclear missiles to be stationed in Britain. The lyrics attack the decision to use the bomb, ("Is mother proud of Little Boy today?") and suggest that the bombing was unnecessary ("It shouldn't ever have to end this way"). The song is named after the aeroplane, a USAAF B-29 Superfortress called Enola Gay which dropped " Little Boy", the first atomic bomb to be used in an act of War, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 to bring an end to the Second World War. The Guetta and Garraud remixes were released on a limited 12" to promote the compilation album.Ī live performance of this song, recorded at Guildhall, Portsmouth, England on Septem( ), is featured in the film Urgh! A Music War. In 2003 the double disc version was released in France only, which included the remixed versions by Guetta and Garraud as well. The second disc was dropped, and eventually only the Sash! remix appeared on The OMD Remixes EPs. In 1998 David Guetta & Joachim Garraud and Sash! made remixed versions of the song for the intended second disc of The OMD Singles. An early version with a slightly different arrangement appears on the group's Peel Sessions 1979-1983 album. It was released as a 7" single on 26 September 1980, and reached number 8 in the UK chart, also topping the charts in several European countries. It was written by frontman Andy McCluskey, and appears on the band's second album, Organisation (DinDisc/ Virgin, 1980). " Enola Gay" is a song by British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (normally abbreviated to OMD). Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark singles chronology Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Mike Howlett Single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark