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Dazzle Ships is the fourth studio album by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released on 4 March 1983 by Virgin Records (under the guise of the fictitious Telegraph label). Its title and cover art allude to a painting by Vorticist artist Edward Wadsworth based on dazzle camouflage, titled Dazzle-ships in Drydock ...
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...
Paul Humphreys Rather than hire studio time to record their eponymous debut album (1980), McCluskey and Humphreys used their advance payment from Dindisc to build their own Liverpool recording studio, called the Gramophone Suite. They predicted that they would be dropped by the label due to disappointing sales, but would at least own a studio. The album showcased the band's live set at the ...
46. The discography of English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) includes 14 studio albums and 46 singles, among other releases. The group issued their debut single, "Electricity", in 1979, and achieved several international top 10 hits during the 1980s and 1990s, including their signature songs "Enola Gay" (1980) and "If ...
The first OMD release in the wake of parent album Dazzle Ships ' critical panning, "Telegraph" also received negative appraisals. [3] Mike Gardner of Record Mirror described the song as "a well-recorded piece of nonsense that doesn't show any ideas apart from starting and ending", [4] while Smash Hits journalist Dave Rimmer called it "jolly, jangly, deliberately obscure and dull as proverbial ...
The Dazzle ships of the 14–18 NOW project are artworks created to commemorate the work of the artists and artisans who developed and designed the dazzle camouflage used in the First World War by ships as a defence against U-boat attack. MV Snowdrop, at Birkenhead, in dazzle livery. HMS President displaying dazzle livery by Tobias Rehberger.
Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 304.8 cm × 243.8 cm (120.0 in × 96.0 in) Location. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool is a 1919 oil painting by the English artist Edward Wadsworth. It is one of Wadsworth's most famous paintings [ 1 ] and depicts a freshly painted vessel with dazzle camouflage in dry dock.
Occupation. Artist. Norman Wilkinson CBE RI (24 November 1878 – 30 May 1971) was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolours and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur. Wilkinson invented dazzle painting to protect merchant shipping during the First World War.