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Roxanne

The Police had only been around for a couple of months when they headed over to Paris to play a gig at the Nashville Club. Sting saw a bunch of prostitutes near the club and, also nearby, he glimpsed a poster for the play Cyrano de Bergerac, which features a character named Roxanne. With the two things fresh in his mind, Sting sat down and wrote a song about a man in love with a hooker named Roxanne. Drummer Stewart Copeland helped transform it into a tango, and the result was an absolute classic – even if it didn't chart when originally released. Their manager Miles Copeland knew it was a masterpiece, and when they put it back out in 1979, it exploded on the radio. It's since been played on classic rock stations roughly 20 million times and is arguably their most beloved work. 

King of Pain 

Sting was in Jamaica with his new girlfriend Trudie, recovering from the agony of his first divorce, when the inspiration for "King of Pain" first hit him. He looked up into the sky one day and said, "There's a little black spot on the sun today." After a pause he said, "That's my soul up there." It sounded like a song to him, and he quickly wrote out the lyrics about all the pain in the world, from a seagull with a broken back to a butterfly in a spider's web. It was a huge hit in 1983, and it inspired Weird Al Yankovic's early classic "King of Suede." Sample lyric: "There's a sale on our gabardine suits today/ They're all 30 percent off from yesterday."

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

The first single from Ghost in the Machine in England was "Invisible Sun," but the record company figured that the rest of the world should get something a little less serious: "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic." Sting had been fiddling with the tune since his earliest days in the Police, but he didn't get around to finishing it until the Ghost in the Machine sessions. The work paid off and it flew up the charts all over the world. The song was memorably used in The Wedding Singer.

Here's a scary fact: we're now further away in time from The Wedding Singer's release than the Wedding Singer was from 1985, the year it took place in. 

 

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Roxanne

The Police had only been around for a couple of months when they headed over to Paris to play a gig at the Nashville Club. Sting saw a bunch of prostitutes near the club and, also nearby, he glimpsed a poster for the play Cyrano de Bergerac, which features a character named Roxanne. With the two things fresh in his mind, Sting sat down and wrote a song about a man in love with a hooker named Roxanne. Drummer Stewart Copeland helped transform it into a tango, and the result was an absolute classic – even if it didn't chart when originally released. Their manager Miles Copeland knew it was a masterpiece, and when they put it back out in 1979, it exploded on the radio. It's since been played on classic rock stations roughly 20 million times and is arguably their most beloved work. 

King of Pain 

Sting was in Jamaica with his new girlfriend Trudie, recovering from the agony of his first divorce, when the inspiration for "King of Pain" first hit him. He looked up into the sky one day and said, "There's a little black spot on the sun today." After a pause he said, "That's my soul up there." It sounded like a song to him, and he quickly wrote out the lyrics about all the pain in the world, from a seagull with a broken back to a butterfly in a spider's web. It was a huge hit in 1983, and it inspired Weird Al Yankovic's early classic "King of Suede." Sample lyric: "There's a sale on our gabardine suits today/ They're all 30 percent off from yesterday."

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

The first single from Ghost in the Machine in England was "Invisible Sun," but the record company figured that the rest of the world should get something a little less serious: "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic." Sting had been fiddling with the tune since his earliest days in the Police, but he didn't get around to finishing it until the Ghost in the Machine sessions. The work paid off and it flew up the charts all over the world. The song was memorably used in The Wedding Singer.

Here's a scary fact: we're now further away in time from The Wedding Singer's release than the Wedding Singer was from 1985, the year it took place in. 

 

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