I remember the first time I heard this song, which was on the school bus home back in 1980. Sat on the back seat on the last stretch going to the last stop on Letchworth Road where I lived, I heard this on Radio One and I knew I had to find out what it was and get my copy.
Back in 1980 ‘Messages’ was unlike anything I had ever heard before. I loved Gary Numan and Tubeway Army and had some of their records but this was something new. The same synthesiser sounds but warm and rich and altogether less clinical. Some time later my friend Melanie acquired the 10inch version of the song, which was marginally longer and I also remember the lyrics of the song being published in ‘Smash Hits’ magazine (to which I subscribed back in the early eighties) accompanied by a picture of the band and their tape recorder ‘Winston’.
I still love this song today and play it regularly.
I recently went to see OMD at the Lyric Hammersmith when they revived ‘Architecture and Morality’ and they still sound as wonderful today as they did over thirty years ago….
Now listen to the song….
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