OMD On The Story of 80s Love Song "If You Leave" | Pop Fix | Professor of Rock

In the mid 80s, Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark otherwise known as OMD were tapped to write a song for a John Hughes film called Pretty in Pink. John Hughes was always a champion of new wave and post punk he was right on the money as the soundtrack to Pretty in Pink, which would become the crown jewel of the many classic soundtracks from his films., OMD members Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphries tell the story of creating If You Leave for the film including commentary from Matty Healy from the 1975.

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The Band Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, otherwise known as OMD had quite a run in the 80s. Comprised of vocalist bassist Andy Mclusky and vocalist keyboardist Paul Humphries along with the members, the band released the song Electricity in 1979 to some fanfare and then came on strong into the 80s with several highly acclaimed singles and album including the anti war classic Enola Gay and the blissful song Souvenir which went to #3 on the UK charts and the beautiful Joan of arc both from their album Architecture and Morality and then the band got experimental with the wonderful lp Dazzle Ships which was a commercial disappointment. That’s where OMD started to shift to a more pop sound with the album Junk Culture released in 84 with fantastic singles like locomotion which went top 5 in the UK and Tesla Girls. The band started to make inroads in the US with 1985’s Crush working with producer Stephan Hague whom they co-wrote their first single to hit in America So In Love which went to the top 30. Secret was another great single from that album. Then the band was tapped to write a song for a John Hughes film called Pretty In Pink.

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