| Product Summary | | Label: A&m/geffen/interscope | | UPC: 00606949359928 | | Release Date: 3/4/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60591898 | | Item#: MF26VD | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 45559 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2003 A&M Records Ltd. Under exclusive license to Polydor Ltd.
(C) 2003 A&M Records Ltd. Under exclusive license to Polydor Ltd.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | The Police: Andy Summers (vocals, guitar); Sting (vocals, bass); Stewart Copeland (vocals, drums). | | Recorded at Air Studios, Montserrat, West Indies and Le Studio, Quebec, Canada. | | The Police: Sting (vocals, bass); Andy Summers (vocals, guitar); Stewart Copeland (vocals, drums). | | Recorded at Air Studios, Montserrat and Le Studio, Quebec, Canada. | | This is Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players. | | The Police: Andy Summers (vocals, guitar); Sting (vocals, bass); Stewart Copeland (vocals, drums). | | Recorded at Air Studios, Montserrat, West Indies and Le Studio, Quebec, Canada. | | Voted Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in the '83 Grammys, SYNCHRONICITY was the fifth in a string of successes for The Police. The single "Every Breath You Take," also earning a Grammy, was written by Sting in ten minutes in a middle-of-the-night inspiration, after which he went back to sleep. | | Fancy knowing you were going to break up and yet be able to record and produce this masterpiece. The world domination of the Police was as calculated and planned as was their departure. Each of the intervening albums have something special but the power of tracks such as 'Synchronicity II', and the haunting quality of 'Every Breath You Take' (you really believe Sting when he says, 'I'll be watching you') give this record the edge. The only tracks less than brilliant are Summers' and Copeland's offerings, a fact of which they must all have been aware. They bowed out while they were still winning. | | Fancy knowing you were going to break up and yet be able to record and produce this masterpiece. The world domination of the Police was as calculated and planned as was their departure. Each of the intervening albums have something special but the power of tracks such as 'Synchronicity II', and the haunting quality of 'Every Breath You Take' (you really believe Sting when he says, 'I'll be watching you') give this record the edge. The only tracks less than brilliant are Summers' and Copeland's offerings, a fact of which they must all have been aware. They bowed out while they were still winning. | | Voted Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in the '83 Grammys, SYNCHRONICITY was the fifth in a string of successes for The Police. The single "Every Breath You Take," also earning a Grammy, was written by Sting in ten minutes in a middle-of-the-night inspiration, after which he went back to sleep. | | Fancy knowing you were going to break up and yet be able to record and produce this masterpiece. The world domination of the Police was as calculated and planned as was their departure. Each of the intervening albums have something special but the power of tracks such as 'Synchronicity II', and the haunting quality of 'Every Breath You Take' (you really believe Sting when he says, 'I'll be watching you') give this record the edge. The only tracks less than brilliant are Summers' and Copeland's offerings, a fact of which they must all have been aware. They bowed out while they were still winning. |
| | Artist Overview | | Their innovative rock/reggae fusion, superb songwriting, and crossover appeal put the Police light-years ahead of many of their 1980s new-wave colleagues in terms of artistic resonance. Emerging just after the punk explosion of the late '70s, the trio rode to international stardom on a string of hit singles, and when they reached the top, they called it a day. Charismatic frontman Sting (aka Gordon Sumner) remains a pop icon whose appeal shows no sign of waning; members Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers also went on to successful, though less high-profile, solo careers. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/04/2003 | | Original Release Date : 1983 | | Catalog ID : 493 599 | | Label : A&M Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 44m : 36s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : ADD | | UPC : 00606949359928 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone - Ranked #17 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey. (November 89)
.Rolling Stone - Ranked #17 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey. (November 89)
. CMJ (1/5/04, p.12)
- Ranked #15 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983". |
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