'Nobody Was Going To Stop Us': OMD On Their Self-Titled Debut Album

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'Nobody Was Going To Stop Us': OMD On Their Self-Titled Debut Album

Aside from attracting widespread critical acclaim, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s debut single, “Electricity,” led to the band signing a major record deal with Virgin Records subsidiary Dindisc in the autumn of 1979, which led to the release of their self-titled debut album early the following year. The recording of the captivating, Kraftwerk-esque “Electricity” was overseen by Factory’s in-house producer, Martin Hannett, whose revolutionar…