'It was the naive confidence of youth, the idea that music is that important. 'It sounds strange, I know, but we had been trying to change the world,' says McCluskey.
Wait until you hear the next single - it's our Mull of Kintyre.' Maid of Orleans duly became another huge hit in the UK, and Germany's best-selling single of 1982. When Joan of Arc got rave reviews ahead of the album's release, McCluskey told Smash Hits: 'That's nothing. Souvenir was first out of the block and made No 3. Architecture and Morality, OMD's third album, had been a monster hit following its release in 1981, with any number of potential singles.
