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Sting Brimstone and Treacle: 1982 "Invisible Sun" † Sting Ghost in the Machine: 1981 [4] "It's Alright for You" Sting Stewart Copeland Reggatta de Blanc: 1979 [2] " A Kind of Loving" Andy Summers Sting Stewart Copeland Brimstone and Treacle: 1982 "King of Pain" † Sting Synchronicity: 1983 [8] "Landlord" † Sting Stewart Copeland Non-album ...
The Very Best of... Sting & The Police is a compilation album issued by A&M Records on 3 November 1997, [4] containing a mix of Police songs and Sting's solo works. [5] It originally featured one new track, a remix of the 1978 song "Roxanne" by rap artist Sean "Puffy" Combs.
The Police have sold over 75 million records, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. [6] [7] [8] The band won a number of music awards, including six Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards (winning Best British Group once), and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2003, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. [9]
The album came out shortly after Sting's solo album The Soul Cages, prompting David Sinclair to point out in his review in Q magazine that "Copeland and Summers were far more than a passive vehicle for Sting's songs. As powerful personalities and assertive musicians in their own right, they gingered up Sting's basic ideas while putting the ...
The Police guitarist Andy Summers was less enthusiastic about Combs’s song, revealing in an AV Club interview in 2012 that he only learnt about it from his son, who heard it on the radio.
Although the song was recorded in 1981, Sting wrote it in early 1977 around the time of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, prior to the formation of the Police. [8] [9] An early demo of the song can be heard on the Strontium 90 studio album Strontium 90: Police Academy (1997), which Sting recorded entirely by himself while the song was still fresh in his mind (according to Mike Howlett ...
The concert features live versions of Sting's songs from The Police as well as his solo song catalogue. The length of the full concert is around 135 minutes, but to get all the songs both the DVD and CD have to be purchased.
In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times published on Monday, Nov. 11, Sting revealed that despite what “went on” with the disgraced music mogul — who famously sampled the 1983 Police ...