Bombers

About Bombers

"Bombers" is the second single by the English new wave band Tubeway Army, released on 21 July 1978, on Beggars Banquet.

Overview

"Bombers" is the second single by Tubeway Army, released in 1978. Content "Bombers" is considered by some to be one of the most popular songs by Tubeway Army, a punk band popular in the '70s and '80s. The song enjoyed brief popularity in the '80s and is featured in several books cataloging iconic songs of the period. The song is in a somewhat more conventional rock style than their punk-oriented debut, "That's Too Bad", and features sound effects simulating air raid sirens, dive bombers, and machine gun fire. Like its predecessor, the single earned indifferent reviews and failed to chart. It is one of the few recordings in his career which Numan did not produce himself.

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“My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power — not with ground forces.”
— General Curtis LeMay, as portrayed in Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965), co-written with MacKinlay Kantor, p. 565; in an interview two years after the publication of this book, reported in The Washington Post (4 October 1968), p. A8, LeMay said, "I never said we should bomb them back to the Stone Age. I said we had the capability to do it. I want to save lives on both sides." He claimed that this was his ghost writer's overwriting.

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