Songoftheday 2/14/15 - I never wanted another come over to me and discover, how i want to be near you and you need to be far away...

"(Forever) Live And Die" - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
from the album The Pacific Age (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #19 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 7

Today's Song of the Day comes from the British new wave group Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, who had went from a underground electropop fave to pop stars with their hit from the "Brat Pack" movie Pretty In Pink, "If You Leave" in the spring of 1986. And the end of the year the act released their seventh studio album, The Pacific Age, hoping to cash in on that momentum. With Stephen Hague (New Order, Pet Shop Boys) producing the set, the first single, "(Forever) Live And Die", was another reflective though slower-paced track that sounded great coming from the speakers on my old boombox. While lead singer Andy McCluskey sang on "If You Leave", it was keyboardist Paul Humphreys that took over on this track, and his dreamlike vocals made this a true winner..

"(Forever) Live and Die" became the bands third top-40 hit, landing in the top-20 on the American pop chart in December of 1986, while scaling to #25 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. Internationally, the single went to the top-10 in Germany (#8), Austria (#5), Switzerland (#9) and the Netherlands (#3), while in their native Britain it stopped one notch from that level at #11.

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And here's the band live during their reunion tour in 2007...

Up tomorrow: a rat-tailed chanteuse is inquiring on romance.