| "Telegraph" | ||||
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| Single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | ||||
| from the album Dazzle Ships | ||||
| B-side | "66 and Fading" | |||
| Released | 1 April 1983 | |||
| Recorded | The Manor, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England | |||
| Genre | New wave | |||
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| Label | Telegraph (Virgin) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys | |||
| Producer(s) | OMD, Rhett Davies | |||
| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Telegraph" on YouTube | ||||
"Telegraph" is a song by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and the second single from their studio album Dazzle Ships (1983). "Telegraph" was originally slated to be the first single released, but being unhappy with the mix and with pressure from Virgin, the group instead opted for "Genetic Engineering".[1][2]
The first OMD release in the wake of Dazzle Ships' critical panning, "Telegraph" also met with hostility from the music press. It has since been positively reappraised by outlets including Rolling Stone, who recognised the track as "decades ahead of its time" and one of the "100 Best Songs of 1983". "Telegraph" was the band's first single not to enter the UK Top 20 since "Red Frame/White Light" in early 1980. The song was included on the CD and cassette versions of the band's first singles compilation album The Best of OMD in 1988 (in a remix unique to that release), but was omitted from their second singles compilation The OMD Singles in 1998.