The two teamed up in their teens to play in the bands Hitlerz Underpantz, VCL XI and the Id. In primary school McCluskey met Paul Humphreys. The bands’ co-founder, George Andrew “Andy” McCluskey, was born in 1959 in the town of Heswall on The Wirral peninsula. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) is a band that formed in 1978 in the Liverpool suburb of Wirral, UK. Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ did not chart Number of weeks on Vancouver’s CFMI Chart – insufficient data due to unavailable charts #1395: Souvenir by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark