Orchestral Manœuvres In The Dark "Crush" (Virgin) 1985 ....OMD intended to uses an Edward Hopper painting for the Cover Art .... due to the high copyright fee Paul Slater imitated Hopper's style and his work derived from Hopper's "Early Sunday Morning" (1930) .....
Recorded @ Marl, Recklinghausen in 1984 after two live performances .... Oscar Shumsky waived his concert fee to finance this recording which remained unissued for nearly 40 years .... the romantic drama is mesmerizing here ....