The brief was to create the “extended version that never was” on the A-side. The single was being reissued in an oxblood 12″ by EMI and featured two new remixes of the song by the band themselves. Last year OMD revisited their debut single in a new clear 7″ reissue [complete with Vince Clarke remix of the B-side, “Almost.” This year it was time for another reissue of their hit single “Enola Gay” after 40 years of bringing us that oh-so-OMD blend of euphoria and melancholy.
I swear I posted on this earlier but it may have just been a private text thread among my friends my muddled mind is recalling, was if I’m wrong, I apologize.