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It topped the charts in France, Italy and Portugal. The song was a sleeper hit in the UK: it entered the UK Singles Chart at number 35, but proved popular with audiences and climbed 27 places over the next 3 weeks to reach a peak of number 8, thus becoming the group's first Top 10 hit in their home country. McCluskey has stated that the song is "not a celebration" of the event, but hopes that it conveys "an ambivalence about whether it was the right or the wrong thing to do." Released as a single, "Enola Gay" was an enormous success, going on to sell more than 5 million copies internationally. Written by frontman Andy McCluskey, it addresses the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during the final stages of World War II and references Enola Gay and " Little Boy", the Boeing B-29 Superfortress and nuclear weapon used in the bombing, respectively. " Enola Gay" is an anti-war song by British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released as the only single from their 1980 album, Organisation.