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SETTANTAxOTTANTA: 1981. Enola Gay gli OMD cantano l’orrore dell’atomica tra malintesi e imbarazzi · 70 80

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  dedicated to the deepening of the topics discussed
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  in the articles of the portal. We are with the
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  director Massimo Lualdi who introduces the modern
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  topic. What are we talking about today? Music
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  and a song symbol of the 80s. Inola Gay is the
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  single that made the orchestral manoeuvres in
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  the dark famous. The song, whose title refers
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  to the airplane that launched the atomic bomb
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  on Hiroshima, became a symbol of pacifism over
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  the years, but especially at the beginning and
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  in the United Kingdom it was not completely understood
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  and was the source of misunderstandings and embarrassment.
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  This is me in this very room. I hope you can
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  see the big hair. That's horrendous. And this
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  is Paul playing the keyboards. It's what we called
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  keyboards. It was the biggest pile of junk shop.
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  Andy Klaskei and Paul Amphraise founded the Orchestras
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  Manus in the Dark in 1978 and became central
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  figures in the emergence of synth -pop between
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  the late 70s and early 80s. The band had already
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  achieved a certain success with the first album
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  and the single Electricity. But it was only with
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  Enola Gay that it became famous internationally.
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  The song sold more than 5 million copies all
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  over the world, reached the 8th place in the
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  United Kingdom and in 1981 reached the top in
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  Italy and Spain, becoming in our country the
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  second most sold single of the year. And our
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  friends thought we were mad. So this was really
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  the kind of techno geek's room where our mates
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  couldn't come and mess up our songs with their
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  drum solos and their lead guitars. In all again,
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  in fact, it was probably the last song that we
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  wrote in this. M .C .L. www .lexmcl .it from
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  the famous children's program Swap Shop. Another
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  potentially problematic aspect was the contrast
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  between the dramatic theme and the cheerful music.
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  The doubt was whether the pacifist vocation of
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  the song would have been understood and whether
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  the references of the text to the bombing on
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  Hiroshima would have been accepted. The doubts
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  were not fully revealed. Many DJs of the period
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  refused to use the song during their evenings,
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  but the power of the music was such that the
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  song became a hit. especially in Latin countries
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  like Spain and Italy, where perhaps the text
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  was less understood. The song contains many references
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  to the tragedy of Hiroshima and Little Boy, in
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  which it is quoted, and at the same time the
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  son who greets the mother and the nomenclature
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  given to the bomb itself. 8 .15 is the time when
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  it was unleashed, fixed forever in the clock
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  of the city at the time of the explosion. You've
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  been practicing, haven't you? I have. This was
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  the synth we had, anyway. And everybody thought
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  we were terribly technological and advanced and
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  futuristic. But this is the rubbishest thing
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  you've ever seen. This, in fact... If I can show
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  it to you. This was from my mother's mail -order
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  catalogue. We never wanted to be pop stars. Our
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  raison d 'etre was... Everything we do has to
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  be different to what we've just done and what
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  everybody else has done. Yes, it was possible
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  to feel the taste. It had the taste of lead because
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  of the coating of my teeth. These are the radiations.
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  I felt that taste of lead in my mouth. It was
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  a great relief. I knew it exploded. Enola Gay
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  Tybets was the name of the mother of Commander
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  Paul Tybets. It was named so in honor of Enola,
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  the protagonist of a romantic novel written in
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  1887, Enola or her fatal error. But unlike the
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  girl in the novel, Enola Gay Tybets was a very
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  serious lady with whom the son had a great relationship.
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  La donna non ha mai avuto modo di esprimere pubblicamente
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  il proprio pensiero su quanto commesso dal figlio,
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  ma il padre raccontò a Paul che aveva sorriso
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  quando in radio annunciarono che aveva dato il
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  suo nome all 'aereo, come ringraziamento per
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  averlo sempre incoraggiato. Una delle stroffe
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  più intense del test è quella che si riferisce
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  all 'ora in cui avvenne l 'esplosione, le 8 .15.
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  Le condizioni normali e il ritorno a casa ci
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  raccontano che l 'aereo stava ritornando senza
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  problemi alla base, dopo che Paul Teibetz aveva
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  virato bruscamente nei 43 secondi tra lo sgancio
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  dell 'ordigno e le in order to avoid being destroyed
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  by himself. Enola Gay has been included in numerous
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  lists of pacifist songs and in 2012 she was chosen
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  by Danny Boyle, the director of Transpotting,
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  to be used in the opening ceremony of the London
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  Olympics. Thanks to the director of 7080 .it
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