The Police ~ Synchronicity I ~ Synchronicity Concert [1983]

This live video shows The Police at The Omni Coliseum in Atlanta on 11-03-1983. Originally The Police wanted to release another concert, but were not satisfied with their 08-02-1983 performance. So directors Godley & Creme filmed them again at The Omni in Atlanta, GA, USA on 11-02-1983 and 11-03-1983. Some audience shots from the August performance were still used for the official release.

The Police's Synchronicity Tour ran between July 23, 1983 and March 4, 1984.

During the early dates, the band resided at a mansion in Bridgehampton, New York and were flown to the concerts. This was the band's final tour as a working unit and one of the highest-grossing tours of the 1980's.

"I was never relaxed," drummer Stewart Copeland recalled. "I had so much anxiety. And I know how crazy that must sound to people who do real jobs." Copeland did however cite the August 18 show at Shea Stadium as the peak of "Policemania": "Playing Shea Stadium was big because, even though I'm a septic tank (rhyming slang for 'Yank'), The Police is an English band and I'm a Londoner – an American Londoner – so it felt like conquering America."

The November 2 and 3 shows in Atlanta were filmed and recorded for a live album and DVD.

"Synchronicity I" is the opening track from the fifth and final studio album by the Police titled "Synchronicity", recorded at AIR Studios, Montserrat between December 1982 – February 1983 and released on June 17, 1983. The overdubs were done at Le Studio in Quebec during January–February 1983.

The album's title was inspired by Arthur Koestler's "The Roots of Coincidence". Sting was an avid reader of Koestler, and also titled "Ghost in the Machine" after one of his works.

"Synchronicity I," as well as its more famous counterpart "Synchronicity II," features lyrics that are inspired by Carl Jung's theory of synchronicity. Synchronicity is the experience of having two (or more) things happen coincidentally in a manner that is meaningful to the person or persons experiencing them, where that meaning suggests an underlying pattern. It differs from coincidence in that synchronicity implies not just a happenstance, but an underlying pattern or dynamic that is being expressed through meaningful relationships or events. Carl Jung believed the theory offered an explanation for ostensibly paranormal occurrences such as phone calls arriving from people just as we have been thinking about them. Also included in the lyrics is a term from "The Second Coming," "Spiritus Mundi" (translating to "spirit of the world"), which William Butler Yeats used to refer to the collective unconscious, another of Jung's theories.

When asked how "Synchronicity I" is connected to "Synchronicity II," Stewart Copeland said, "I've had Sting up against the wall on this issue before, and he point blank refuses to explain the connection. None of us in the band can even remember which one's which. The only way I can keep them straight is that 'Synch I' has Sting's cool sequencer part, that 'dunga dunga dung' thing that I, to this day, get all the credit for. People think it's me playing some percussive instrument, and I have to put them right. It was real 'rama-lama' way of starting our set on tour, though it almost killed me to start with that kind of onslaught every night."

In 2009, the album Synchronicity was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame compiled a list of The Definitive 200 Albums of All Time in 2007, listing Synchronicity at No. 119.

*The supporting act for the band during this concert was The Fixx.

Stewart Copeland – Drums
Sting – Bass guitar, Lead Vocals (Backing vocals on Album)
Andy Summers – Guitar
Michelle Cobbs, Tessa Niles, & Dolette McDonalds – (Female backup singers at concert)

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