Crush

Crush is the sixth album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1985. "So in Love" became the group's first hit single in the US, the album also sold well in the US. Crush was Stephen Hague's first album as producer. He would go on to achieve success with groups such as Erasure, The Pet Shop Boys and New Order. A long-form video, Crush - The Movie was also released, showing the group talking about their career and performing the songs ... more

Release Date:

  • 1984

Running Time:

  • 2,332.333 s (38.87222 min )

Genre:

Musical Album

Artist

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (often abbreviated to OMD) are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England. OMD record for Virgin Records (originally for Virgin's DinDisc subsidiary). The group was founded by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, and...

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. It was later sold to Thorn EMI, and then, in the US, merged with Capitol Records in 2007 to create the Capitol Music Group. Branson & Powell had initially run a small...

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