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Sting Outlandos d'Amour: 1978 [1] "How Stupid Mr. Bates" Andy Summers Sting Stewart Copeland Brimstone and Treacle: 1982 "Hungry for You (J'aurais toujours faim de toi)" Sting Ghost in the Machine: 1981 [4] "I Burn for You" Sting Brimstone and Treacle: 1982 "Invisible Sun" † Sting Ghost in the Machine: 1981 [4] "It's Alright for You" Sting ...
"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" is a song by the Police, released as a single in 1980. Released as the lead single in the US and second single in the UK from their album Zenyatta Mondatta, the song was written by Sting as a comment on how people love simple-sounding songs.
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 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 ...
"Every Breath You Take" is a song by the English rock band the Police from their album Synchronicity (1983). Written by Sting, the single was the biggest US and Canadian hit of 1983, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for eight weeks (the band's only No. 1 hit on that chart), and the Canadian RPM chart for four weeks.
The band performed the song regularly on its early tours, and Sting later included it during his "Broken Music" tour in 2005–2006. It was the song performed for the second encore during The Police's 2007 Reunion tour. In the Paris show (on 29 September), former band member Henry Padovani joined the band on stage to play this song. "Next to ...
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 ...
"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.