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Name of song, writer(s), original release, and year of release Song Writer(s) Original release Year Ref. "Be My Girl – Sally" Sting Andy Summers: Outlandos d'Amour: 1978 [1] " The Bed's Too Big Without You" Sting Reggatta de Blanc: 1979 [2] "Behind My Camel" Andy Summers Zenyatta Mondatta: 1980 [3] "Bombs Away" Stewart Copeland: Zenyatta ...
The English rock band the Police has released five studio albums, three live albums, seven compilation albums, fourteen video albums, four soundtrack albums and twenty-six singles. The Police sold over 75 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. [1] [2] [3]
At the 1984 Grammy Awards ceremony, Synchronicity won the award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, [39] and was nominated for Album of the Year. [40] "Every Breath You Take" won the awards for Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, [39] and received a nomination for Record of the Year. [40]
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 ...
Zenyatta Mondatta was written during the Police's second tour and recorded in four weeks (minus two days for concerts in Ireland and at the Milton Keynes festival in the United Kingdom). The band members have often expressed disappointment over the album, going so far as to re-record two songs during a brief, unsuccessful reunion in 1986.
Outlandos d'Amour (Outlaws of Love) is the debut studio album by British rock band the Police, released on 17 November 1978 [4] by A&M Records.Elevated by the success of its lead single, "Roxanne", Outlandos d'Amour peaked at No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart and at No. 23 on the Billboard 200.
The music video, directed by Godley & Creme (who directed the videos for "Every Breath You Take" and "Synchronicity II"), furthers the ethereal feeling the song gives off, by having footage of the band performing in a candle-lit, gloomy room, interspersed with scenes of Sting running among tall candlesticks arranged in a sort of maze; in the ...
It is a paradoxical but nonetheless true statement to say that the retro-leaning L.A. rock band Redd Kross was far ahead of their time — not just musically (the power-pop resurgence of the early ...