"Maid Of Orleans"
Meycauayan City, Bulacan, Philippines
A lovely tune from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark!! - Mike
*****
If Joan of Arc
Had a heart
Would she give it as a gift
To such as me
Who longs to see
how an angel ought to be
"Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (often abbreviated to OMD) are a synthesiser group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England. OMD record for Virgin Records (originally for Virgin's Dindisc Records subsidiary).
The group was founded in 1978 by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys. Adding Malcolm Holmes and Martin Cooper by the end of 1980, this quartet (with occasional line-up fluctuations) was the core of the outfit until 1989, when Humphreys, Cooper and Holmes all left OMD to found The Listening Pool. McCluskey then retained the OMD name and continued to record and tour as OMD with new line-ups through 1996.
...November 1981 saw the release of their most commercially successful album in the UK and Europe – Architecture & Morality. The group went into the studio with Richard Mainwaring producing. Cooper then temporarily dropped out and was replaced by Mike Douglas, but this change was reversed by the time the album was released and a tour embarked upon. The album's striking sound saw OMD's original synth-pop sound augmented by the Mellotron, an instrument previously associated with prog rock bands. They used it to add very atmospheric swatches of string, choir and other sounds to their palette. Two more hit singles 'Joan of Arc' and 'Maid of Orleans' (which became the most successful single of 1982 in Germany) were taken from the album, which eventually sold more than 3 million copies. A somewhat interesting footnote is that 'Joan of Arc' and 'Maid of Orleans' were originally both titled 'Joan of Arc'; the name of the latter single was changed at the insistence of the publishers and to avoid confusion. It became 'Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans)" and later simply 'Maid of Orleans.'" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestral_Manoeuvres_in_the_Dark
"Maid Of Orleans"
Meycauayan City, Bulacan, Philippines
A lovely tune from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark!! - Mike
*****
If Joan of Arc
Had a heart
Would she give it as a gift
To such as me
Who longs to see
how an angel ought to be
"Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (often abbreviated to OMD) are a synthesiser group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England. OMD record for Virgin Records (originally for Virgin's Dindisc Records subsidiary).
The group was founded in 1978 by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys. Adding Malcolm Holmes and Martin Cooper by the end of 1980, this quartet (with occasional line-up fluctuations) was the core of the outfit until 1989, when Humphreys, Cooper and Holmes all left OMD to found The Listening Pool. McCluskey then retained the OMD name and continued to record and tour as OMD with new line-ups through 1996.
...November 1981 saw the release of their most commercially successful album in the UK and Europe – Architecture & Morality. The group went into the studio with Richard Mainwaring producing. Cooper then temporarily dropped out and was replaced by Mike Douglas, but this change was reversed by the time the album was released and a tour embarked upon. The album's striking sound saw OMD's original synth-pop sound augmented by the Mellotron, an instrument previously associated with prog rock bands. They used it to add very atmospheric swatches of string, choir and other sounds to their palette. Two more hit singles 'Joan of Arc' and 'Maid of Orleans' (which became the most successful single of 1982 in Germany) were taken from the album, which eventually sold more than 3 million copies. A somewhat interesting footnote is that 'Joan of Arc' and 'Maid of Orleans' were originally both titled 'Joan of Arc'; the name of the latter single was changed at the insistence of the publishers and to avoid confusion. It became 'Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans)" and later simply 'Maid of Orleans.'" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestral_Manoeuvres_in_the_Dark