Legend FELT His 80s #1 HIT Was SO CREEPY-He Wrote a REMEDY For It...Also Hit #1! | Professor Of Rock

The story of the desolation of the Police and the birth of Sting’s first solo hit, If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, as song he wrote as a remedy to the disturbing stalker #1 hit of 1983, Every Breath You take. After 4 straight #1 albums in the UK, their first #1 Album in America, and first #1 Single… the Police were on top of the world. No one was bigger than they were at the time. Which made what happened next so perplexing to their fanbase. They simply quit. Or at least they quit playing together. Today, we try to figure out why and tell the story of how their iconic lead singer Sting gave up a guaranteed goldmine to go it alone while taking a huge gamble on his first solo album. How a nightmare about a blue monster actually broke up the band…

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So today we’re getting into the story behind the end of one of the biggest bands of the late 70s and early 80s The Police and the beginning of Sting’s solo career, featuring the song the kicked it all off as an antidote to the band’s #1 hit Every Breath you take… If You Love Somebody Set Them Free. Technically, The Police, never formally disbanded in the 80s. They just kind of stopped playing. “It was sneakily done,” admitted guitarist Andy Summers. “There was no closure.” Which had a lot of fans holding their breath, anticipating what was sure to be a monumental sixth studio album.

After all, in the early 80s The Police ruled the music world. In June 1983 they released their massively successful firth album Synchronicity, a #1 album in both the US and the UK. It spawned three Top 10 hits, including the #8 Wrapped Around You Finger, the #3 King of Pain, and the haunting #1 Every Breath You Take. A fourth single Synchronicity II went to #16. and is now celebrating 40 years if you can handle that… They also fronted a triumphant 105 show world tour to support the album. There is no arguing that by this point they were at the peak of their powers, and showed no sign of slowing down, at least in terms of popularity. In August 1983, the band gave a rarified Shea Stadium performance to a sellout crowd of 70,000.

Before the show Sting sat down with guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland and said, “This is as good as it gets. We’re playing Shea Stadium, this is where The Beatles played. We’re the biggest band in the world this year. After this, it’s going to be diminishing returns. I think we should stop now, at the top.”

Eventually, The Police announced that they were taking a ‘sabbatical’ to devote time to individual projects. Fans across the world could only hope that this hiatus would be short-lived.but By the summer of 1984, Sting was in London working on a new batch of songs. And by January 1985, Sting was on his way to New York to recruit a new band. There he set up a three week workshop with an open invite to members of the jazz community to come jam.