Description
The Police – Synchronicity / A&M Records Audio CD 2003 / 493 656-2
UPC 606949365622
Synchronicity is the fifth and final studio album by English rock band the Police, released on 17 June 1983 by A&M Records. The band's most successful release, the album includes the hit singles "Every Breath You Take", "King of Pain", "Wrapped Around Your Finger", and "Synchronicity II". The album's title and much of the material for the songs were inspired by Arthur Koestler's The Roots of Coincidence. At the 1984 Grammy Awards the album was nominated for a total of five awards, including Album of the Year, and won three. At the time of its release and following its tour, the Police's popularity was at such a high that they were arguably, according to BBC and The Guardian, the "biggest band in the world".
Synchronicity reached number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200, and sold over eight million copies in the US. The album was widely acclaimed by critics. Praise centred on its cohesive merging of disparate genres and sonic experimentation. Rolling Stone described "each cut on Synchronicity [as] not simply a song but a miniature, discrete soundtrack". It has since been included in the magazine's lists of the "100 Best Albums of the Eighties" and the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2009, Synchronicity was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
| Label: | A&M Records – 493 656-2 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2003 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Style: | Alternative Rock |
Tracklist:
| 1 |
Synchronicity I |
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3:23 |
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| 2 | Walking In Your Footsteps |
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3:35 |
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| 3 | O My God |
|
4:00 |
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| 4 | Mother |
|
3:03 |
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| 5 | Miss Gradenko |
|
2:00 |
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| 6 | Synchronicity II |
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5:04 |
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| 7 | Every Breath You Take |
|
4:13 |
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| 8 | King Of Pain |
|
4:59 |
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| 9 | Wrapped Around Your Finger |
|
5:12 |
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| 10 | Tea In The Sahara |
|
4:11 |
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| 11 | Murder By Numbers |
|
4:36 |
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| Video | Every Breath You Take |
- Art Direction [Reissue] – Vartan (4)
- Art Direction, Design – Jeff Ayeroff, Norman Moore
- Coordinator [Reissue Production] – Margaret Goldfarb
- Design [Reissue] – Meire Murakami
- Engineer – Hugh Padgham
- Mastered By – Bob Ludwig
- Mastered By [Reissue] – Bob Ludwig
- Noises – The Police
- Photography By – Duane Michals
- Producer – Hugh Padgham, The Police
- Research [Tape - Universal Tape Library/London] – David Lascelles, Jane Hitchin, Zoe Roberts
- Research [Tape - Universal Tape Library/Los Angeles] – Brendan Morris, David Foster (5), Randy Aronson
- Supervised By [Reissue] – Bill Levenson
