Synchronicity will be reissued on 26 July 2024
Stewart Copeland: ‘The Police’s recording sessions were very dark:
"The Police had an epiphany courtesy of the Beatles’ documentary, Get Back. Each of us learned, in our separate ivory towers, that the final master isn’t in any way diminished by showing the sketches or demos along the way. Ghost in the Machine [the previous album] had taken us into stadiums and then Synchronicity made us even bigger, but the recording sessions were very dark.
We beat the crap out of each other. We’ve laughed about it since, but going back into that black hole isn’t something we tended towards. But it was such fun listening to the demos and songs that didn’t make it, so there will be more reissues. We’re starting at the end and working backwards, like Wagner’s Ring Cycle."
CD1 is the original album including ‘Murder By Numbers’, all remastered directly from the original source tapes
CD2 features 18 tracks containing all original 7” / 12” B-sides plus 11 exclusive non-album bonus tracks, available on CD for the first time
CD3 and CD4 contains previously unreleased alternate takes of all the Synchronicity songs
CD4 also features unreleased Police songs including an early version of Andy Summers’ 1982 track ‘Goodbye Tomorrow’ (later renamed ‘Someone To Talk To’); a demo of a Stewart Copeland penned song ‘I’m Blind’ which later resurfaced as the renamed ‘Brothers on Wheels’ for Copeland’s acclaimed soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Rumblefish’; an unreleased first take of ‘Truth Hits Everybody’ (originally from the 1978 debut Outlandos d’Amour’); and rare covers of the Eddie Cochran song ‘Three Steps To Heaven’ and ‘Rock and Roll Music’ by Chuck Berry. (Super Deluxe Edition)
CD5 and CD6 features 19 live recordings – all previously unreleased – captured on 10th September 1983 at the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum, USA.
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“Every Breath You Take” by The Police Deemed the Most Popular Type of Song by Researchers
Recently, The Royal Society alongside researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark, released their findings on music listening patterns.
The researchers analyzed Spotify streaming patterns for almost four million songs to determine whether listeners prefer different types of songs at different times of the day.
Heggli then offered up examples of the types of songs that perform well in each of these blocks. “Supreme” by Robbie Williams finds success in the morning due to its “slow” but “energetic” sound, Heggli shared with NPR. “Louder, faster songs ruled in the afternoon. Think ‘Only Girl (In The World)’ by Rihanna,” NPR shared as Americansongwriter reports.
There is, however, one type of song that transverses all five of these categories. That song is embodied by the track, “Every Breath You Take,” by The Police.
“It’s a very in-the-middle type of song,” Heggli said of the 1983 song. “It’s a medium tempo. It’s a bit groovy, but not too much groovy. It doesn’t have any loud surprises. And it’s all over just a very pleasant, perhaps even a bit bland song.”
