Every Breath You Take

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" Every Breath You Take " is a song by the British rock band The Police from their 1983 album Synchronicity . Written by Sting, the single was the biggest hit of the US and Britain in 1983, surpassing Billboard's 100 Hot single for eight weeks (the band's only hit on the chart), and UK Singles Bagan for four weeks. It also topped the Top Tracks chart Billboard chart for nine weeks.

At the 26th Annual Grammy Awards, the song was nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year, Best Pop Performance by Duo or Group with Vocals, and Record of the Year, winning in the first two categories. For the song, Sting received the 1983 Ivor Novello Academy Award for Best Musical and Lyrics Songs.

The song is considered Polish and Sting's signature song, and in 2010 is expected to produce between a quarter and a third of Sting's music publishing revenues. In 1983 Rolling Stone critics and readers of the polls, it was voted "Song of the Year". In the US, it was the best-selling single in 1983 and the fifth best-selling single of the decade. Billboard rated it number one for 1983.

The song was ranked 84th on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500 The Shaped Rock and Roll Song. It also ranks number 25 on Hot Billboard ' 100 All-Time Top Songs. In 2015, the song was chosen by the British public as the country's number one favorite in a poll for ITV.

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Origins and songwriting

Sting wrote the song in 1982 after his breakup with Frances Tomelty and the beginning of his relationship with Trudie Styler. Their split is controversial. As The Independent reported in 2006, "The problem is, he's married - with actress Frances Tomelty, who happens to be Trudie's best friend (Sting and Frances live next door to Trudie in Bayswater, west London, during a few years before they both became lovers.The affair was cursed extensively. "To escape from the public eye, Sting retreated in the Caribbean where he began to write songs.The lyrics are the words of a possessive lover who watches" every breath you take every move you make ".

I woke up in the middle of the night with a line in my head, sitting on the piano and writing it in half an hour. The song itself is generic, aggregated from hundreds of others, but the words are interesting. Sounds like an entertaining love song. I did not realize at that moment how scary it was. I thought I was thinking about Big Brother, supervision and control.

Sting later said he was puzzled by how many people thought the song was more positive than that. She insists it is about an obsession with lost lovers, and jealousy and supervision that follow. "One couple told me 'Oh, we like that song, it's the main song played at our wedding!' I thought, 'Well, good luck.' "When asked why he looked angry in the music video, Sting told BBC Radio 2:" I think the song is very, very creepy and ugly and people have misinterpreted it as a gentle, little love song, when it's just the opposite. "

According to the box-set "Back to Mono" box, "Every Breath You Take" is influenced by Gene Pitney's "Every Breath I Take". The song Led Zeppelin, "D'Jer Mak'er" (1973), also contains the words "every breath I take, every move I do". This song has AABACABA structure.

The demo of the song was recorded in eight songs in Utopia's studio in North London and featured Sting's singing on Hammond's organ. A few months later he presented the song to the other band members when they reunited at AIR Studio George Martin in Montserrat to work on the album Synchronicity . While recording, Summers came up with a guitar part inspired by BÃÆ' Ã… © la BartÃÆ'³k which would later become a trademark nickname, and play it live in one shot. He was asked to incorporate the guitar into a simple bass backing track, drums, and single vocals, with Sting not offering referrals outside "make it his own." Summers remembered:

This is hard to come by, because Sting wrote a really good song, but there's no guitar on it. She has Hammond organ objects that sound like Billy Preston. It certainly does not sound like a Police, with a large and rolling synthesizer part. We spent about six weeks just recording drum snares and bass. It's a simple chord sequence, but we can not agree on how to do it. I've made an album with Robert Fripp, and I'm a bit experimenting with playing Bartok's violin duo and have compiled a new riff. When Sting says 'go and make it your own', I go and lick it, and soon we know we have something special.

The recording process is full of difficulties when the personal tension between band members, especially Sting and Stewart Copeland, surfaces. Producer Hugh Padgham claims that during the recording sessions, Sting and Copeland "hate each other", with verbal and physical fights in the studio. The tension almost led to a canceled recording session until a meeting involving the band and group manager, Miles Copeland (Stewart's brother), resulted in an agreement to proceed. The keyboard parts are added from Roland guitar synthesizer, a Prophet-5 and an Oberheim synthesizer. The single piano notes in the middle of the eight were recommended by Padgham, inspired by the similar work he did with the XTC group. The drum tracks are mostly made through a separate overdub from each percussion instrument, with the main backbeat made by playing snare and gong drum simultaneously. To give a more lively song, Padgham asked Copeland to record his drum part in the studio dining room to achieve some "special sound effects". The room was so hot, the drumstick had to be taped to Copeland's hand to make sure they did not fly. According to Stewart Copeland:

In my opinion, this is Sting's best song with the worst settings. I think Sting can have another group to do this song and it will be better than our version - except for the brilliant part of Andy's guitar. Basically, there is a lack of grooves. This is a very fruitless opportunity for our band. Though we make gazilions of it, and that's the biggest blow we've ever had.

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Music video

The song has a music video (directed by Godley duo & Creme) loosely based on the short film Gjon Mili 1944 Jammin 'The Blues . A black-and-white shot, the video portrays the band, accompanied by pianist and string sections, performing a song in a dark ballroom when a man washes the floor-to-ceiling windows behind them. Sting does his part on an upright bass rather than a bass guitar.

The video was praised for its cinematography; MTV (1999), Rolling Stone (1993), and VH1 (2002) named it one of the best music videos ever, placing it 16th, 61st, & amp; 33 in the top 100 list each. Daniel Pearl won the first MTV cinematography award for his work on video. Released in the early days of MTV, Every Breath You Take is one of the earliest videos to enter heavy rotation, a fact that significantly contributes to the popularity of the song. Pop star Richard Marx remembers that "The first video I watched over and over is Every Breath You Take .That's like looking at a Bergman movie.Players usually spell every word of the lyrics in a video, but this is a video first I know who did not do it.It's abstract. "According to A & amp; M co-founder Jeff Ayeroff, "[Video to] Every Breath You Take may cost $ 75,000 to $ 100,000, and we sell over 5 million albums.With good videos, your return on investment is phenomenal. "

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Impact

"Every Breath You Take" was released as a single in 1983, with "Murder by Numbers", a composition by Andy Summers and Sting, on the B-side. "Every Breath You Take" reached No. No. 1 in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Israel, Ireland, and South Africa. In 1983 Rolling Stone critics and readers of the polls, it was voted "Song of the Year".

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Legacy

In 1997, Chaka Khan and k d lang performed songs on Song & amp; Concert vision at Wembley Stadium.

In 1999, "Every Breath You Take" was listed as one of the Top 100 Songs of the Century by BMI. In 2003, VH1 ranked the No. 2 song of the greatest Break-up song of all time. And also in 2003, Sting still received an average of $ 2000 per day in royalties for the 20-year-old song.

In October 2007, Sting was awarded the Million-Air certificate for 9 million airplays "Every Breath You Take" at the BMI Awards in London, with Van Morrison's "Eyed Girl" Brown Eyed Girl close to 8 million air drama.

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Accolades

• This is one of Shaped Rock and Roll's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Songs.
• It's ranked No. 25 on Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs.

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Track list

7 ": A & amp; M/AM 117

1. "Every Breath You Take" - 3:56
2. "Murder by Numbers" - 4:31

2x7 ": A & amp; M/AM 117

1. "Every Breath You Take" - 4:13
2. "Murder by Numbers" - 4:31

1. "Man in a Suitcase" (Life) - 2:18
2. "The Truth Hits Everybody '83" - 3:34

• Rare 2x7 "single

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Personnel

• Stings - lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, synthesizer
• Andy Summers - guitar, piano
• Stewart Copeland - drums

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Graphics and certification

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See also

• List of single number one RPM 1983
• Single number list single 1983 (Ireland)
• List of number one singles from the 1980s (England)
• List of Billboards Hot 100 number one single 1983
• List of mainstream rock hit number one (United States)

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References

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External links

• Classic Tracks: The Police's 'Every Breath You Take'
• Lyrics of this song in MetroLyrics

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