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Electricity (OMD cover)
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The only band to make it HUGE from out of the Wirral music scene I grew up being a part of. I'm proud of the fact that some of the musicians I grew up with made a living out of their craft and influenced many others.
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Songwriter, Singer, Rock, Pop, Folk, Funk, Punk, Christian, Contemporary, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, 10s, 20s, covers, experiments, doodles and oodles of fun!
Introducing the greatest talent ever to emerge from the orange bedroom at my parents house. I play guitar like.... well, like a guy playing guitar. I tickle ivories. I twiddle on the computer. I sometimes enjoy beans on toast for breakfast. And in the cracks between the eating, sleeping, laughing, crying, working, breathing experience that is my life there sometimes slips out songs like these.
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Genre
Pop • Cover Songs
Charts
Peak #142
Peak in subgenre #15
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Written By Paul Humphreys & Andy McCluskey
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Label Factory Records Release Date May 21, 1979
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June 01, 2023
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MP3 8.2 MB • 320 kbps • 3:36
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WAV 36.3 MB
Story behind the song
Andy McCluskey of OMD revealed to Mojo magazine November 2009 that this song was influenced by the German synth pioneers Kraftwerk and particularly their single, Radioactivity. He explained: Im sure it was Kraftwerks influence behind our penchant for writing love songs to inanimate objects: aeroplanes, telephone boxes, oil refineries. We wrote Electricity when we were 16, the year we heard Radioactivity. I remember many years later being invited to (ex Kraftwerk member) Wolfgang Flürs apartment and I happened to notice their gold record for Radioactivity, which had been a single in France. I said, Oh Radioactivity, my favorite Kraftwerk song. You do know that our Electricity was our version of Radioactivity sped up.? And Wolfgang and Karl said, Oh yes, we knew that. Why the fascination with electricity? Andy McCluskey, explained: Paul (Humphreys) studied electronics and would probably have been an engineer if the band had not changed his life. No accidents yet. But theres still time.
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Our one source of energy The ultimate discovery Electric blue for me Never more to be free Electricity Nuclear and HEP Carbon fuels from the sea Wasted electricity Our one source of energy Electricity All we need to live today A gift for man to throw away The chance to change has nearly gone The alternative is only one The final source of energy Solar electricity Electricity Electricity Electricity Electricity Electricity
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