page_title: Red Frame/White Light
section_title: Telephone box
hierarchical_section_title: Red Frame/White Light / Telephone box
caption_attribution_description: English: Red telephone featured in Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark's second single "Red Frame/White Light", in 2019 celebrated with a plaque.
context_page_description: "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 until 2019, when it appeared as part of Souvenir: The Singles Collection 1979-2019.
context_section_description: The telephone box that inspired "Red Frame/White Light" is located at the junction of Birkenhead Road and Greenwood Road in Meols.
  In the nearby pub "The Railway Inn" the band would meet and used the telephone box to organise their gigs and transportation. In the song's lyrics the phone number is mentioned: 6323003.
  Fans would ring the number expecting to get one of the band members, but got a confused home owner in their own area code. Over the years it has become a kind of sacred place for OMD fans. In 2004 OMD fan Stephen Cork started a successful campaign to get the telephone box repainted in time for a fan tour on 10 April 2005.
  On the evening of 18 August 2017 the phone box was removed by BT Group. It has subsequently been restored and returned to its original location as of October 2017.
caption: The telephone box with commemorative plaque added in 2019
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