Iconic Albums The Police The Synchronicity Era (1983)

A Track-by-Track Journey Through The Album That Closed A Remarkable Chapter, Explored New Horizons and Confirmed the Police as a Global Phenomenom

von Richard Ward

312 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In 1983, The Police reached the absolute peak of their career with Synchronicity-an album that became their biggest commercial triumph at precisely the moment the band was beginning to fall apart.Iconic Albums: The Police - The Synchronicity Era (1983) tells the complete story of the group's fifth and final studio album, from the tensions left behind by Ghost in the Machine to the fractured recording sessions at AIR Montserrat, the finishing work in Canada and the extraordinary success that followed.Drawing on the ideas of Carl Jung, Arthur Koestler and Paul Bowles, Sting pushed his songwriting into increasingly personal and ambitious territory. Songs such as "Every Breath You Take," "King of Pain," "Wrapped Around Your Finger," "Synchronicity II" and "Tea in the Sahara" explored obsession, isolation, control, psychology and the mysterious connections between apparently unrelated events.At the same time, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland were fighting to preserve their own identities within a band increasingly dominated by Sting's songwriting vision.The result was conflict-and some of the finest music The Police ever created.This book explores the remarkable story behind Andy Summers' defining guitar part on "Every Breath You Take," the battles between Sting and Stewart Copeland over the song's arrangement, the experimental contributions of "Mother" and "Miss Gradenko," the creation of the distinctive Synchronicity artwork and the songs that were recorded but ultimately left behind.It also follows The Police through their greatest period of success: number-one singles, seventeen weeks at the top of the American album chart, Shea Stadium, the massive Synchronicity world tour and Grammy recognition.Yet behind the triumph, the three musicians were moving towards separate lives.By the time the tour ended in 1984, The Police had achieved almost everything a band could achieve-and discovered that success alone could no longer keep them together.The story of Synchronicity is therefore more than the story of a classic album.It is the story of three extraordinary musicians reaching the summit together-and deciding, almost immediately afterwards, to walk away.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174863606
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published