Biography

Featuring core members Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey, the Liverpudlian synth pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark formed in the late '70s. Humphreys and McCluskey began performing together in school, playing in the bands VCL XI, Hitlerz Underpantz, and the Id. The group released its first single, [roviLink="MC"]"Electricity," on Factory Records; the record led to a contract with the Virgin subsidiary DinDisc. The group released a string of successful British albums in the early '80s -- [roviLink="MC"]"If You Leave," taken from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, was their biggest American hit, climbing to number four in 1986. The band continued to record into the late '90s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• (forever) Live And Die

• 88 Seconds In Greensboro

• Bloc Bloc Bloc

• Bunker Soldiers

• Call My Name

• Dancing

• Dream Of Me (based On Love's Theme)

• Electricity

• Enola Gay

• Genetic Engineering

• Green

• History Of Modern, Pt. 1

• If You Leave

• If You Want It

• International

• Joan Of Arc

• Locomotion

• Motion And Heart

• Promise

• Radio Waves

• Sailing On The Seven Seas

• So In Love

• Souvenir

• Stand Above Me

• Telegraph

• Tesla Girls

• The New Stone Age

• The Pacific Age

• Universal

• Very Close To Far Away

• Walking On The Milky Way

• We Love You

Discography

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• Live in Berlin

  Blue Noise

  2011

• History of Modern

  Blue Noise

  2010

• Universal

  EMI Music Distribution

  1996

• Liberator

  Virgin

  1993

• Sugar Tax

  EMI / Virgin

  1991

• The Pacific Age

  A&M

  1986

• Crush

  Disky

  1985

• Junk Culture

  Caroline Distribution

  1984

• Dazzle Ships

  Virgin

  1983