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"Message in a Bottle" is a song by British rock band the Police. It was released as the lead single from their second studio album, Reggatta de Blanc (1979). Written by the band's lead singer and bassist Sting, the song is ostensibly about a story of a castaway on an island who sends out a message in a bottle to seek love.
Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is a four-CD box set by the Police, containing all five of their studio albums in chronological order, as well as non-album singles, non-album B-sides, and tracks from various compilation albums and the Brimstone & Treacle soundtrack . The box set also comes with a 68-page booklet.
The show was very influential in galvanizing rock musicians to become involved in the human rights issue and in other political and social causes in subsequent decades. Musicians who performed at the show who subsequently became activists in various fields include Sting, Bob Geldof, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Donovan and Midge Ure.
Use of the term "message in a bottle" has expanded to include metaphorical uses or uses beyond its traditional meaning as bottled messages released into oceans. The term has been applied to plaques on craft launched into outer space , interstellar radio messages , stationary time capsules , balloon mail , and containers storing medical ...
Just to say, I'm a regular editor in the One Piece Wikia, and we do have this song in our trivia section for the page. Oda does seem to be a fan of English bands, so I don't see how this should be an exception.--198.209.161.201 16:46, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Archaeologists digging through a French cliffside located a 200-year-old message in a bottle. Amidst much speculation, the team opened it to find a message from another archaeologist digging at ...
The riff, which is played on the bass, was described as "weird" and "jazzy" by Sting. [7] Guitarist Andy Summers came up with the chord "which hits after the bass notes" throughout the song. [7] "Walking on the Moon" was released as the follow-up single to the British No. 1 single "Message in a Bottle" in late 1979.
Sting had conceived the song as a bossa nova, although he credits Police drummer Stewart Copeland for suggesting its final rhythmic form as a tango. During recording, Sting accidentally sat down on a piano keyboard in the studio, resulting in the atonal piano chord and laughter preserved at the beginning of the track. [13]