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Every Breath You Take - Sting
This was the biggest hit of 1983. It was US #1 for 8 weeks.
This
is one of the most misinterpreted songs ever. It is about an obsessive
stalker, but it sounds like a love song. Some people even used it as
their wedding song. Sting wrote it after separating from his first
wife, Frances Tomelty.
Sting wrote this at the same desk in Jamaica where Ian Fleming wrote his James Bond Novels.
The
recording process created a great deal of tension in the studio. Sting
was very particular about his song and would not let the other members
of The Police (Andy Summers and Stuart Copeland) do much with it. The
Police broke up after this album.
The
middle of the song was finished last. They didn't know what to do with
it until Sting sat at a piano and started hitting the same key over and
over. That became the basis for the missing section.
Sting knew this would be the band's biggest hit when he wrote it, even if he didn't think he was breaking new ground. In Rolling Stone
magazine, he said: "'Every Breath You Take' is an archetypal song. If
you have a major chord followed by a relative minor, you're not
original."
Every Breath You Take" is a song written by Sting and originally performed by The Police. It was released on their 1983 album Synchronicity. The single was one of the biggest of 1983, topping the Billboard Music Charts (North America) for eight weeks and the UK charts for four weeks. It also topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks
chart for nine weeks. Sting won Song of the Year and The Police won
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the Grammy Awards
of 1984 for "Every Breath You Take". The song ranks #84 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Mikes Notes:
Stings' voyeuristic take
on lost love....(and everybody thought it was a love song)
A very distinctive opening arpeggio makes this a beginners favourite.
This is a much simplified version but still captures the style of the
original.
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