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Interpretations of the lyrics vary widely. [8] [9] Writing in Entertainment Weekly about a 1996 Sting tour, Chris Willman said: "The late-inning number that really gets [the crowd] galvanized is the edgy old Police staple that has the most old-fashioned unresolved rock tension in it, 'Synchronicity II'—which, after all, is a song about a domestic crisis so anxiety-producing that it wakes up ...
In the most common version Sting is reading a copy of Carl Jung's Synchronicity (1960) on the front cover along with a superimposed negative image of the actual text of the synchronicity hypothesis. A photo on the back cover also shows a close-up, but mirrored and upside-down, image of Jung's book.
"Wrapped Around Your Finger" was released as the follow-up to the worldwide hit "Every Breath You Take." In Britain, it reached No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart in August 1983, [5] and in the US, it was instead released as the fourth single from Synchronicity (after "Every Breath You Take," "King of Pain," and "Synchronicity II").
After the Synchronicity tour wrapped in March 1984, the Police went on what seemed like just a temporary hiatus at the time, with Sting recording his 1985 full-length solo debut, The Dream of the ...
The lyrics of "Tea in the Sahara" were inspired by the Paul Bowles book The Sheltering Sky. The first section of that book is called "Tea in the Sahara". In it, the character Port is told a story in which three sisters wait for a prince to join them for tea in the Sahara Desert, but the prince never returns. [1]
[2] "Miss Gradenko" Stewart Copeland Synchronicity: 1983 [8] "Mother" Andy Summers Synchronicity: 1983 [8] "Murder by Numbers" † Sting Andy Summers Non-album single B-side of "Every Breath You Take" 1983 [14] "Next to You" Sting Outlandos d'Amour: 1978 [1] "No Time This Time" Sting Reggatta de Blanc: 1979 [2] "Nothing Achieving" † Stewart ...
The box set states that it 'contains every single song the Police ever released' but it excludes ten officially released tracks from before its release in 1993: "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (Spanish Version) (4:00) and "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (Japanese Version) (4:00) were released in the US in 1981 as a double A-side 7", with Sting singing the song in both Spanish and Japanese (AM-25000).
In contrast with its predecessor, it features all 14 original UK top 20 chart singles and five UK number-ones released by the band from 1978 to 1984, including the two missing singles from the previous 1986 compilation, "Synchronicity II" and the original version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" which had been replaced with the 1986 re-recording.