Red Frame/White Light

About Red Frame/White Light

"Red Frame/White Light" is the second single of the synthpop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. The song is about a red telephone box in Meols, on the Wirral peninsula in Cheshire, that was used by the band to make calls to organise their gigs in the late 1970s. The track is composed of two alternating major/minor sections, each built around a synthesizer hook. Lyrical content is minimal, comprising mostly brief, spoken word utterances. It was the band's first single to chart. The song had previously never been included in any of the group's compilation albums (except for the promo video being included on the DVD of Messages - OMD Greatest Hits in 2008) until 2019, when it appeared as part of Souvenir: The Singles Collection 1979-2019. more »