How The Police Became The BIGGEST Band Of The Early 1980s | Pop Fix | Professor of Rock

Hey Music Junkies, the Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and songs of all time with our latest edition of Pop Fix. In the 1980s the Police could do no wrong. They had one of the biggest hits of the decade, the number one hit, Every Breath You Take and they were taking over the world by 1983 with Synchronicity. We celebrate Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers with an 80s Police 5er. After all, the Police’s musical output in both songs and albums is the stuff of legend and they continue to amaze new listeners who are discovering them every day. Spirits in the material world indeed.

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The Police featured three of the most resoundingly distinctive musicians of the rock era: Sting- at lead vocals and bass
Andy Summers- lead guitar & backing vocals and Stewart Copeland- drums & backing vocals. There’s no question, history has proven Sting to be a legendary vocalist and lyricist.

The voice of Sting is a carefully sculpted art form that has fascinated us since The Police had their big breakout in 1978 with “Roxanne."Sting has a gifted ability to sing full-throttle high notes with complete clarity and emphasis, without the need to bust into falsetto. That’s one of the most unbelievable aspects of his vocal style.

#5- Originally from the 1982 soundtrack of film adaptation of Brimstone & Treacle“I Burn For You”- The hauntingly seductive heat of passion enacted by Sting & The Police.

The arrangement of “I Burn For You” is the epitome of amorous infatuation. It’s one of the most intensely passionate songs Sting has ever written. Now that I have found you in the cloth of your evening smile The shade of your parasol And your love flows through me. Though I drink at your pool I burn for you.”

#4- “Don’t Stand So Close To Me From Zenyatta ”The subject matter is very taboo, but Sting has never been afraid to push the envelope with the themes of his song writing. “Don’t Stand So Close To Me,” is a scandalous tale about a female student fantasizing about being with her young teacher
And the teacher sharing the same lustful desires for the student-
Fighting temptation & frustration, the solution is for the teacher to maintain good ol' social distancing, begging her to “please, don’t stand so close to me.”

#3- The massive international phenomenon “Every Breath You Take”From The Police’s 1983 swan song album Synchronicity.
Sting composed “Every Breath You Take” in ’82, while suffering from what he called “a mental breakdown," during the disintegration of his first marriage. Even though we’ve all heard “Every Breath You Take” thousands, if not millions of times, since its release in ’83, it comes across as a touching love song. But, Sting really wrote the tune while feeling jealousy, and seeking ownership of his soon to be ex-wife.

#2- “King of Pain”Another brilliant track from the epic Synchronicity album.“King of Pain” is Sting’s dark & eloquent harbinger foreshadowing the imminent dissolution of The Police. The lyrics of “King of Pain,” including the title, are symbols of the anguish that Sting was feeling at the time.

The line “there’s a little back spot on the sun today,” was taken, literally, from actual words spoken by, his soon to be 2nd wife, Trudie, when the couple was sitting under a tree in Jamaica, watching the sun setting in the western sky. Trudie observed that there was a “little black spot on the sun today.” Sting paused before acknowledging what Trudie had said, exclaiming.. “that’s my soul up there.”

#1- from the 1981 album Ghost in the Machine..."Every Little Thing She Does is Magic”An endearing New Wave ditty about a nervous, hapless, chap with an unshakable attraction to a girl he has dedicated his existence to pursue. Sting references that the life of this poor, unlucky soul, before his obsession, was “tragic”, and despite having a big enough umbrella, it’s always him that "ends up getting wet.”
I’ve always loved that line!! It’s repeated not only in the fade out of the song, but again in Sting’s solo song Seven days from 10 summers tales.

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