TUNE INTO ENGLISH The Police’s Every Breath You Take

El hit que popularizó al trío inglés y convirtió a Sting en una estrella sigue considerándose como una canción de amor. La letra, en cambio, está escrita desde un punto de vista más bien siniestro.

by FERGAL KAVANAGH

MUSIC The most frequently played track in radio history, Every Breath You Take is a twisted1 love song by English rock band The Police. The best-selling single of 1983, it spent eight weeks at the top of the US charts2, and featured3 on the band’s final album “Synchronicity”. It was written by Sting4 (whose real name is Gordon Sumner) during a messy5 divorce from his first wife, Frances Tomelty. The musician was on a break in Jamaica and staying at GoldenEye, the villa once owned by James Bond creator Ian Fleming. As he told The Independent “I woke up in the middle of the night with that line6 in my head, and sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour”. Guitarist Andy Summers added the…

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