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OTHER ACTS' ANALYSES (Sting / The Police)
One of the greatest hits of the year (and the decade). A very beautiful song where they proved how 'less is more' in some cases. Reportedly they lasted longer working on this one than the rest of the album because of its simplicity. Great use of clichéd progressions and section variants. Music
& Lyrics by: Sting Produced
by: Hugh Padgham Recorded
at Air Studios, Montserrat, West Indies and Le
Studio, Quebec, Canada Keys:
Ab Drums:
Stewart Copeland Lead
Vocals: Sting Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gordon Sumner started playing music since an early age. Although primarily a singer and composer, he learnt to play bass, guitar and keyboards (in fact Every Breath You Take was written at the piano). Never a very technical player, but good enough to perform his own material. He cites Love Me Do as the song that made him want to be a songwriter. The Police started off influenced by the punk movement, which was strange in this case because the three band members were professional musicians with the ability to read music and having a rich eclectic background. Still, the unique combination of Sting's lyrics and voice, Stewart's syncopated drumming and Andy's jazzy guitar-work, contributed to their distinctive sound and style from the beginning.
As usual, it starts in the subdominant (see Hey Jude, for instance). Nice bVI > bVII chord-vamp, resolved in the next section. |
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