OMD interview: ‘We never wanted to be a pop group – our mates thought we were rubbish’

• This summer, director Christopher Nolan smuggled weighty ideas and nuclear devastation into the mainstream with the almost $1 billion-grossing biopic Oppenheimer. But in 1980, two smartly-dressed Merseysiders got there first. Enola Gay, by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, sold over five million copies despite being an anti-war anthem named after the American B-29 Superfortress bomber which carried J. Robert Oppenheimer’s creation on its world-altering mission over Japan. Surely the song should