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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 ...
Synchronicity: 1983 [8] " Ωmegaman" Andy Summers Ghost in the Machine: 1981 [4] "On Any Other Day" Stewart Copeland Reggatta de Blanc: 1979 [2] "Once Upon a Daydream" † Sting Andy Summers Non-album single B-side of "Synchronicity II" 1983 [16] "One World (Not Three)" Sting Ghost in the Machine: 1981 [4] " The Other Way of Stopping" Stewart ...
"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").
"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.
"Tea in the Sahara" is a song by the British new wave band the Police. Written by Sting, the song appeared on the band's final album, Synchronicity. It was written about the Paul Bowles novel The Sheltering Sky. A live version of "Tea in the Sahara" appeared as the B-side to "King of Pain" in Britain and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" in America.
Rolling Stone described "each cut on Synchronicity [as] not simply a song but a miniature, discrete soundtrack". [7] It was ranked number 17 in the magazine's lists of the "100 Best Albums of the Eighties" [8] and number 159 on the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [9] In 2009, Synchronicity was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Few rock acts have gone out so on top as the Police did after releasing their final and most successful album 40 years ago. Synchronicity was the third-biggest album of 1983, selling 10 million ...
"King of Pain" is a song by British rock band the Police, released as the second single from their fifth and final studio album Synchronicity (1983). Written by the band's lead singer and bassist Sting as a post-separation song from his wife, "King of Pain" conjures up symbols of pain and relates them to a man's soul.