![]() ![]() OMD founding members Paul Humphreys (left) and Andy McCluskey inside the red phone box monument to the band on Greenwood Road in Wirral (Image: Andy Barrett and Steph McCahill)Īlso heavily involved in the campaign to save the monument was OMD founder member Andy McCluskey. One such fan, Christine Hall, lives in Washington DC and made the 3,500 mile trip to Meols back in October 2021. Due to the protestations of fans, the phone box was returned to its original spot two-months later.įans of the band still make pilgrimages to Wirral to visit the bright red box. They petitioned the company for the box's return on the basis it had become an important monument to British electronic music. ![]() This caused uproar with the band's fans who saw the phone box as an integral part of the band's history.įor more nostalgia stories, sign up to our Liverpool Echo newsletter here. ![]() In 2017, BT took away the box because it had almost completely fallen out of use. Fans of the band would phone the number only for confused locals to pick up. The band further immortalized the phone in their second single Red Frame/White Light, which included the box’s phone number, 632 3003, as part of the lyrics.ĭue to its inclusion in their songs and use as a base of operations for the band, the phone box gained a cult following. Now regarded as pioneers of electronic music, they became central figures in the late 1970s/early 1980s emergence of electronic music.Ĭhances are, even if you're not a fan of OMD but are of a certain age, you will be familiar with their single Enola Gay which reached number eight in the UK charts in 1980, but went to number one in Italy, Spain and Portugal. It also happens to be the place where they found out their third single, Messages, had gone into the Top 20 of the UK music charts. It was here that two of OMD's founding members, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys would make and receive calls to their manager.
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