Icon’s Wife CRASHED His PITY PARTY With a WITTY Wisecrack…Turned QUIP into #1 HIT!-Professor of Rock

Was this 1983 hit record, recorded by the #1 band of the time actually a solo album in disguise? Synchronicity by the Police with Sting taking center stage: the #1 album was composed almost singlehandedly by this frontman, the 1983 record featured four hit songs, including the massive #1 hit Every Breath You Take. But as good as that one is, it may not be the album’s defining track. Rather, I’d say its commercial runner-up King Of Pain is even more representative of how Sting was feeling at the time. Suffering from a broken marriage. His band breaking up. It’s all in there…King of Pain also features one of the best opening lines you’ll hear in a hit song… There’s a Little Black Spot on the Sun Today...But when it was all said and done, did he take this track too far? Was it too much of a pity party? His future wife, Trudie Styler thought so and called him out on it which is where the Title came from in the first place… It’s such a great story find out next on Professor of Rock.

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Today we’re going to jump in the time machine and set the circuits for the grand old year of 1983. To peel the layer off a Top 5 track from The Police’s 1983 landmark album Synchronicity… The song? It was the third US single from the record and one of the band’s most successful songs… King of Pain.

Since the late 70s, The Police were riding a steady upward trajectory, on their way to becoming legitimate global superstars. Through four albums they had given the world multiple new wave-rock-reggae-inspired classics, from Roxanne to Message in a Bottle to Don’t Stand So Close to Me to Every Little Thing She is Magic. And that’s just naming one iconic hit from each album. There is plenty more from where that came from. After scoring a #2 US ranking with 1981’s Ghost in the Machine, the trio of Stewart Copeland on drums, Andy Summers on guitar, and Sting on bass and lead vocals were shooting for the number one spot with their next album… Synchronicity. However, that would be easier said than done. By the time The Police began work on their 5th studio album, Sting was going through some serious upheaval in both his personal life and his professional life. Or to put it more bluntly, everything was starting to implode.

Regarding his personal life, Sting’s first marriage to Frances Tomelty was coming to an end. The two had married in 1976, but had now been separated since 1982… on account of Sting having an affair with Frances’ best friend Trudie Styler amongst other things… Trudie is reported to have lived next door to the couple for several years before the extracurricular activities began. But I guess one thing led to another… and well, that was that. Sting and Frances finally divorced in 1984. As for Sting’s professional drama, by the time of Synchronicity, The Police were coming apart at the seams.