The song was a hit in many countries, topping the charts in France, Italy and Portugal. Nevertheless, it was an enormous success, going on to sell more than 5 million copies internationally. It was selected by theBBC for use during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Critic Ned Raggett in AllMusic lauded the track as 'astounding.a flat-out pop classic – clever, heartfelt, thrilling, and confident, not to mention catchy and arranged brilliantly' colleague Dave Thompson called it a 'perfect synth-dance-pop extravaganza.' It featured in MusicRadar's 'The 40 Greatest Synth Tracks Ever' in 2009, who noted that the song 'includes some of the biggest synth hooks of all time.' In 2012, NMElisted the track among the '100 Best Songs of the 1980s', describing McCluskey's vocal as 'brilliantly quizzical' and the song as a 'pop classic'. 'Enola Gay' has come to be regarded as one of the great pop songs. Written by Andy McCluskey, it addresses the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, and directly mentions three components of the attack: the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, which dropped the nuclear weapon Little Boy on Hiroshima at '8:15'. It was the only single from the band's 1980 album, Organisation.
' Enola Gay' is an anti-war song by the British synthpop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD).
