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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: From Kraftwerk to Craftsmen

Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, May 2013

They were just "two guys with a tape recorder and a name as long as the stage they were standing on", but Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark remain one of the most intriguing of the globally successful synth pop acts to have emerged in the 1980s. On the eve of the release of a new album, English Electric, co-founder Andy McCluskey talks to Wyndham Wallace about the past, the future and trying to change the world.

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