Our manager even threatened to resign if we released it as a single. But the subject matter caused consternation within the band. We were a pair of anoraks with a fascination for old trains and aeroplanes, which inevitably led me to write about Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Paul Humphreys and I had been at school together and formed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in 1978.
