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joeluke | 21:56 Fri 27th Jul 2012 | ChatterBank
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Wouldn't the Japanese be offended at hearing that song during the opening ceremony?
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How would they know?
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Oh right yeah, sorry I forgot that song was only released in the UK
If anything I thought it might upset the Yanks.
Why would they be offended? It's not a song in support of Enola Gay.
Joe... Did your brain leave a forwarding address?
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So the title Enola Gay is insignificant to the Japanese?
Who said that?
I'm English and I didn't hear Enola Gay mentioned so how many Japanese would?
It was played, briefly.
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No one who is Japanese has ever heard of OMD of course
> I didn't hear Enola Gay mentioned

The song's introduction was played but stopped just before its opening line...
Well I think the Queen's helicopter flight with James Bond was to a WW2 film theme - I think it was 633 Squadron.
But why would it. Upset the Japanese ?
that last dance routine seemed to start off from Empire of the Sun
The aircraft that bomber Hiroshima was called Enola Gay, I think after the pilot's wife.
I think his Mother.
it didnt even get to the words
You're right, Ummmm: (Wiki)

Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of the pilot, then-Colonel (later Brigadier General) Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused extensive destruction.
It was his mother.
And, if it had, they would have been:

"Enola Gay you should have stayed at home yesterday"

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