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Hey teacher, leave them kids alone! Today we’re telling the story of the classic 80s track Don’t Stand So Close To Me by the Police. The controversial song is about a classroom instructor who crossed the line with one of his students. And since Sting was a teacher before joining this band, a lot of fans wondered if it was really about him. Was he speaking from a real experience? Besides that, this song holds another claim to fame as well. It is notorious for trying to pass off one of the worst rhymes in a pop song ever. Even band mates Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland admitted it was terrible. But despite all the drama surrounding it, this song was just they needed at the time. Not only did it become one of their most popular tracks, it opened the way for them to become global rock stars. and part of it would come back around a few years later to help create another massive hit. Money For Nothing from Dire Straits So get ready, we’ve got some controversy coming up on this one… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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I’m excited to return to another one of my favorite shows that we do on this channel. It’s called Breakthrough. In this show we breakdown songs, albums or events that kicked open the door to an artist or band’s career and gave them the momentum to rocket to long term success. On previous episodes we have covered Boys Don’t Cry by The Cure, Don’t You Want Me by The Human League, and Centerfold by The J. Geils Band.
Today we’re going back to the beginning neon decade to bring you the tale of an iconic and controversial track from one of the greatest trios of all time… Drummer Stewart Copeland, guitarist Andy Summers, and bassist-slash-vocalist Gordon Sumner, better known to the world as Sting. You got it. It’s The Police with their 1980 breakthrough single Don’t Stand So Close to Me. Now I’ve got to qualify this one just a bit. Because by the time The Police released Don’t Stand So Close to Me, they admittedly already had a lot of success in the United Kingdom… Including two #1s: Message in a Bottle, Walking on the Moon, and a #2 spot with Can’t Stand Losing You.
However, Stateside, The Police hadn’t made it yet. None of the aforementioned tracks had landed them on the Billboard Hot 100. Roxanne did the best, reaching #32. And Message in a Bottle was next with a #74 ranking. And that was it. The Police had yet to release a breakthrough single in America. Said Summers, “We had some good hits off of our first two albums, and we were doing well in the States, but we hadn’t broken wide open there yet. You can’t believe how much pressure there was for us to make it in America. ‘Gotta make it in America. Gotta make it in America…

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@ProfessorofRock Год назад

Poll: Who is your pick for the greatest bassist of the rock era?

@catherine6653 Год назад

John Taylor, Duran Duran

@bartbluemusic Год назад

Geddy Lee

@Kenboslice3 Год назад

Les Claypool

@BillGraper Год назад

Hmmmm. I don't pay enough attention to bassists. Maybe Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers...

@Lam_3-22-23 Год назад

John McVie Flea Lee Rocker- Stray Cats Jack Neal- The Blue Caps

@robster7316 Год назад

While Sting has gone on to become a globally renowned solo artist, The Police’s unique sound was as much due to Andy Summers’ cool guitarwork (love that chorus pedal) and Stewart Copeland’s tight, precise drumming. Together, they were magic, and their world reunion tour a few years ago was a good reminder of how great they were. Thanks, Adam!

@illegal_space_alien Год назад

Never cared for Sting's solo stuff. It just sounds too boring to me. Just goes to show how much Andy and Stewart brought to the band.

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

No questiono It's what made them truly unique. Thanks Robster... Do you have a favorite by them?

@robster7316 Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock loved all their hits, but one I find most intriguing, both musically and lyrically, is King of Pain. Invisible Sun was another.

@reedsawyer5704 Год назад

I love Sting, but the Police were a great band, and I wish that they had stayed together. Ah, vanity, vanity.

@DAYBROK3 Год назад

they were from such diverse sections of society im surprised they hung together long enough to make it big

@kurttuchscherer7706 Год назад

I recall being really bored one night in 1977( maybe, it's kinda fuzzy ). So I went downtown and saw a poster to see 3 bands for 99 cents. So I said to myself" this will probably suck, but what the hell". The first group was called Shooting Star. Then came out some band called Loverboy. The final act was some unknown trio called The Police. Didn't know it at the time, but that would be the best 99 cents ever spent.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

So cool! Rock on 🤘

@franciet99 Год назад

That is crazy!

@coinraker6497 Год назад

Never heard of Shooting Star but I was a big Loverboy fan back in the day.

@angeloiodice9304 Год назад

That story is nothing short of extraordinary!!!

@Deborahtunes Год назад

99 cents? What a deal...

@randysmith6702 Год назад

I’m a fan of both The Police as well as Sting’s solo albums. Coming-of-age in the 80s was one of the best times in pop music ever. David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance”, The Clash, Van Halen(both versions as well as Sammy Hagar’s, David Lee Roth’s solo careers), The Bangles, Simple Minds, Peter Tosh, Asia, Toto, Journey, The Police, Paul Simon’s “Graceland”, Mr Mister, The Go Go’s, Eurythmics, Flock Of Seagulls, Culture Club, Bruce Hornsby & The Range, Def Leppard, ZZ Top, John Mellencamp, Dire Straits, INXS, Level 42, Sade, The Thompson Twins, Duran Duran, Hall & Oats, Guns & Roses, The Cars, REM, U2, Devo, Foreigner, The Pretenders, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, I could go on and on. In my opinion, it was the best era of pop & rock music ever.

@PrairieDawnC Год назад

That's the soundtrack of my life!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

The 80s is my favorite decade.

@marktait2371 Год назад

dude thats pretty much friend of mine djs list new wave new rock minus gandr

@feellucky271 Год назад

Great-West Randy only a couple a disagree with and I got to tell you I love The Cars. Van Halen was great especially with Sammy Peter Tosh I don't see Bob Marley but hey very cool last I love Jethro Tull too and that goes back a little earlier but great list great list Randy. Cheers

@bluelady549 Год назад

I'm almost 70 and I love all that same music (except a couple).

@johnshields6852 Год назад

People read so much into meanings, it was great music, I was 20 and grew up with iconic songs, police were like a breath of fresh air, unique, I haven't heard their songs in decades, it's cool to revisit these songs, which inevitably bring back specific memories. Thanks for bringing the music of my youth back.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

What was your favorite Police song?

@johnpaulbacon8320 Год назад

John Denver's - Rocky Mountain High got a lot of pushback against it - due to the "Perceived" meaning of the song due to the songs "Name". Where both songs draw out unrecognized emotional feelings because they are different from the expectations for the so called mainstream music.

@MrJestyler Год назад

This wasn’t as creepy as “every breath you take”, that song was about stalking. Love the police though 👍👍

@Quinkerbell_3604 Год назад

Stalking his ex wife after she left him for cheating with her best friend. It’s twisted.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

I think it’s just as haunting.

@Deborahtunes Год назад

Neither of these songs bothered me. Now some of the lyrics they have today are much more disturbing...

@paulf2898 Год назад

So was moon over bourbon street,I think sting had stalking tendencies 😅

@RockandRollWoman Год назад

It's so bizarre to hear Every Breath You Take played at weddings! Apparently people didn't listen to the lyrics. The funniest wedding song I've ever heard was at a wedding at La Riviera Country Club in 1985. Steven Stills was there, and he played Love the One You're With as the first song. The bridesmaids' dresses were black. Don't know how long that marriage lasted! 😂

@drayprescot43 Год назад

I've watched your content for a long time. As a music lover, I've always found the information you present interesting and insightful. As I was sitting here watching your latest, it finally crystallized for me that there's more to my enjoyment of your channel than just the material. It's your delivery. It's so natural and animated that it's like you are sitting on my couch having an off the cuff conversation with me about the subject. It is so engaging and enjoyable to just listen to you tell your amazing stories! Thank you for the many hours of very cool content. Headed to the merch store!

@dannykent6190 Год назад

That book by Nabokov is a great line! That doesn't even factor into the discussion of bad lines. Granted, you're essentially rhyming cough with itself, but that's not remotely unusual in rock music.

@Neevie-Styx Год назад

I like it too. 😊 Makes me feel smarter(more well-read) than I am, LOL.

@shariys1 Год назад

Exactly.

@watts111 Год назад

Rhyming a word with itself used to be called a "French Rhyme" until the French complained.

@ImAlwaysHere1 Год назад

I thought the same thing. I have always loved that rhyme. And the "namechecking" thing. What's the problem? Nabokov simply wrote the book, he wasn't Humbert Humbert.

@jaceek2030 11 месяцев назад

Agreed!

@julesjwg Год назад

I kind of liked the 86 version but as a massive The Police fan it was clear what most of us loved about them, as you said, the famous Police dance and antics were long gone and so was any illusion they were still a band.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Plus Stewart Copeland’s drumming on random things in their videos!

@badgerpa9 Год назад

Cannot believe "Roxanne" did not get to number one. After Eddie sang it in the movie 48 hours everyone knew it.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

My aunt showed me that movie.

@steveelder5306 Год назад

I immediately thought of 48 Hours when Roxanne was mentioned lol! great era of my life.

@stephenscanlon9763 Год назад

Which came out 3 years after the song was released.

@TOPTENTRAVEL01 Год назад

So surprised that this channel hasn't passed the one million mark yet. It's coming.

@TUMNIAISETU Год назад

I've been on a The Police and Sting binge lately and I must say that he wrote some masterpiece lyrics! Very cinematic. Very sensual. Very deep Thank you professor for yet again a fantastic video! 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

I agree. Sting is amazing.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Love me some Sting/Police as well.

@revwillyg6450 Год назад

I remember opening the liner notes and reading along with King of Pain, wondering what it meant when I was a kid.

@thornbird6768 Год назад

Me too 👍🏻 I'd forgotten how much I liked them , and how sexy Sting was 🥰❤

@stingfan16ify Год назад

Sting is one of the true giants of the industry and one of the finest lyricists ever. He is a true poet!

@RC32Smiths01 Год назад

Gotta love the very articulate writing of The Police. Every song is just so intriguing, especially on a compositional level. Cheers

@Whisper_292 Год назад

One of the most intellectual bands ever. Maybe the most.

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

SO true. Love that they took so many chances!

@RC32Smiths01 Год назад

@@Whisper_292 For sure!

@RC32Smiths01 Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock Exactly. A band that continues to be ahead of their time

@artheisenbergscourier5726 Год назад

@@Whisper_292 more so than The Clash?

@jacekatalakis8316 Год назад

I get where Sting is coming from....but even at the time in the news you had articles about teachers/students being a thing so I'd argue that influenced him as well. Even if it didn't happen to him, he could well have known about one of his colleagues in such a situation and been influenced by that, teachers talk and word gets around, rumors fly from school to school we all know how vindictive teenagers can be so I think it all came together to give us the song. Also that Lolita reference is absolute genius, he didn't name the book, but he allueded to it. I've a hunch if he'd have out and out said Lolita, he'd have got the song banned on the airwaves. Makes me wonder if you'll do an episode or compilation on the most creative ways of getting things past censors as well, there's been some great ones throughout music historyb

@garyking6519 Год назад

That is inaccurate. It wasn't about the teacher crossing the line, it was about the student coming on to the teacher and his resistance.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

This is why I try to watch my behavior when I’m talking to teachers.

@trthbtld Год назад

Who's the adult here?!!! He had no resistance, no matter the age, it's always HER fault. Female teachers have to let boy crushes down easy, wouldn't want to hurt their ego. However, male teachers don't have to show restraint or self control. Don't try to help a GIRL through a crush, take advantage of her & then blame it on her.

@garyking6519 Год назад

@@trthbtld but he did resist, where in the song does he cross the line. It's about the pressure but he didnt succumb.

@garyking6519 Год назад

Also, the reference to Nabakov is telling. Lolita was about the girls manipulation of a weak man.

@trthbtld Год назад

@@garyking6519 He picked her up at the bus stop, I'm sure it wasn't to let her down. Men manipulate young girls & then blame it on the girl. Always about their gratification at the expense of the female. Predatory behavior. No justification, wrong is wrong.

@azy63 Год назад

My fandom with Sting and the Police started with his solo performance of Message In A Bottle, during the Secret Policeman's Ball. That performance still haunts me today.

@commonman317 Год назад

That live version of Roxanne from there is my favorite. Sting belted that song out!

@melissahansen-rood86 Год назад

"Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas You know he knows just exactly what the facts is He ain't gonna let those two escape justice He makes his livin' off of the people's taxes" Ugh

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

Ha!

@D-Fens_1632 Год назад

I saw Milller in 96, he was kinda hacky. But the funny part was when he did that song and everyone would clap every 8 count regardless of whether Texas was mentioned or not.

@bobdavis4848 Год назад

My best boss ever hated Steve Miller (I love him) and she really hated how he tried to rhyme "facts is" with "Texas."

@rocktoonzz Год назад

This was the one I was coming here to post about. Worst musical rhyme ever.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

That is Take the Money and Run.

@einerreklov4304 Год назад

The first Police song I remember was 'Message in a Bottle'. It was so mesmerizing that I pulled my car over on the way home from work just to listen to it. It was overplayed in 1980 but I didn't mind.

@billsager5634 Год назад

Find it hard to believe that The Police were "unknown" in the US until "Don't Stand So Close to Me". The Police were played to death on NYC radio. "Next to You"; "So Lonely"; "Roxanne"; "Can't Stand Losing You"; "Message in a Bottle"; " Walking on the Moon" all received such heavy airplay, that it seemed like one of those songs was played every 5 minutes.

@chrislgarner4927 Год назад

The remix of DSSCTM is 2nd rate & a testament to how Sting's overbearing desire to dominate led to the band's demise in the first place. Andy Summers recounts it well in his documentary. Worth watching.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Yeah, that definitely stemmed from hard times.

@andyjulia Год назад

I was 14 when Zenyatta Mondatta came out. It’s still my favorite Police album. Except for a few “fillers” on this album, for me the standouts are- Driven to tears When the world is running down…. Voices inside my head Shadows in the rain. And there is something fun about the similarity of Canary in a coal mine and man in a suitcase.

@ozonebaby5161 Год назад

The rest are complete bu!!sh!t !!!!

@bicyclist2 Год назад

I love Sting, and the Police. I didn't know about any of the stories behind the songs. Great content as usual. Thank you.

@idonthavealoginname Год назад

I've been a massive Police fan since 1979 and although Sting wrote the hits, it was always Andy summers guitar that drew me in along with Stewarts amazing percussion .

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

I agree. Amazing band outside of the lead... What are your favorite songs from them.

@idonthavealoginname Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock I love all the usual suspects but especially 'Beds too big without you' as I just love Andys guitar and the pace of the track. I especially like how he plays on 'Bring on the night too',just so good ! Another great show by the way!

@D-Fens_1632 Год назад

Yeah I don't know if there were many trios where each individual was as important to the sound of the band as the others. Cream might come close.

@garyjungling2908 Год назад

Top-tier under-appreciated drummer! He couldn't handle Sting tho...

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

I’ve said this with Rush. It’s amazing that this lush sound came from only 3 people.

@susanpumphrey354 Год назад

Well apparently I was only ever familiar with the '86 version, because the minute I figured out what song you were talking about I yelled out loud (alone in my house) "I love this song!" but then the clips left me confused, I was thinking I certainly don't remember it sounding so upbeat and pop-py. 😅 Glad you explained the difference. I definitely prefer the remix version, to me the slowed down melancholy of it sounds like the guy is truly struggling to tamp down feelings he knows are wrong.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

The 1986 version was more of a reflection on his feelings.

@TheBassOnTheBass Год назад

Adam, I am a full time musician also because of these three guys... got them even tattooed on my bicep: Ghost in the Machine logo, BUT in the Synchronicity colors. You should check out Sting's demos that leaked on line some years ago: "Don't Think we could ever be friends", "It's Never Too Late", "Secret Journey 2", and you'll get what Stewart and Andy meant with "complete, but jazzy", and why they needed to police-ize them. Indeed, to quote Rick Beato, Sting is un-copiable (De Do Do Do IS his arrangement 100%, there's video footage of him teaching it to Andy), but to quote Andy Summers autobiography "...where would he be without the two of us?". Ciao!! Dimitri

@necrosarx Год назад

I owned Zenyatta Mondatta when I was 10, on tape; this was back in 1983, and I played that back-to-front so many times; I was so very upset when I accidentally destroyed the tape beyond repair...this is a solid release...

@christophersmith2091 Год назад

My introduction to MTV was the Police. Being from a place with no cable access, wrapped around your finger was a amazing video and it blew my mind.

@atmosfear3056 Год назад

Between the Police and Tears for Fears I spent my teen years constantly playing these bands. Beautiful music. 😎👍🏽

@halfwolfl5241 Год назад

I would never say it was better, but the '86 version of Don't Stand So Close to Me is incredible!! A must have as far as I am concerned. Agree with Sting - I love how the melancholy and drama is amped up. Wouldn't give up either version.

@legman1476 Год назад

In Pop Rock music, Paul McCartney played singable basslines while keeping the bass where it should be..., holding the groove. His playing spawned millions of bass players, myself included. I think his bass playing while with Wings is vastly overlooked. Silly Love Songs, Goodnight Tonight (play those and sing them at the same time!), LETTING GO (an obvious inspiration for "Take Me To The River). OLD SIAM, SIR begat "You Make My Dreams Come True" (Hall & Oates) and the Queens of the Stoneage's "No One Knows." TIME TO HIDE's cadence and rhythm inspires Level 42's - "Lessons In Love." This is just off the top of my head. There's plenty more and more songs influenced by these mentioned here.

@gioknows Год назад

I actually had a high school teacher who ended up having a relationship with a student a few years after this song came out...creep. I thought, and still do that his rhyme in this song was brilliant...just compare it to today's terrible lyrics. I loved that album, the song and even that commercial. The 86 redo blew and let us *NEVER* talk about it again. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

I agree. The rhyme is not that bad. I think it's interesting for sure. Thanks Gio.

@glo3139 Год назад

It would have been fantastic to see what they would have put out together, as a band in the future years. They were an amazing trio. Their sound was so distinct and undeniably the police every time you heard the first few bars. They just don’t make music the way they used to

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

There was a teacher at my school that got kicked out over a similar incident.

@susanc4622 Год назад

I don’t think it was that unusual in those days. A teacher apparently left my school after getting a girl in her final year pregnant. She was over the age of consent (in Australia, it’s 16) and in those days, it was considered disgraceful but not actually illegal for a teacher to have an affair with a student. It was all hush hush. What I noticed was that in the 1970’s, younger teachers would sometimes socialise with the older students. I used to find it rather creepy whereas they seemed to think it was ‘cool’.

@feellucky271 Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock I'd be curious to see if you ever do anything on The Cars Adam. I've always loved the band and was in high school,Ric, Ben Orr and Elliot Easton,one of the best and Greg too.Love the show man.

@sigsin1 Год назад

Erotic City by Prince has the worst lyrics ever. “All of my purple life, I’ve been looking for a dame, that would wanna be my wife, that was my intention main.” The emphasis on the wrong syllables drove me nuts, too. “IF we CANnot MAKE baBIES maybe we can make some time.”

@johnross5889 Год назад

I love the "Don't stand so close to me" story..... Humming it in front of your teacher.. hilarious.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

I didn’t want to hum it in front of folks because I worried that they’d want to keep their distance because they thought I had COVID.

@judikingsman6132 9 месяцев назад

Your show is a mind opener. Songs I haven't heard for 40+ years sometimes, you bring back. I still know the words. Don't know any words of songs today nor do I want to ❤😍😁

@ueno1 Год назад

The Police would still be together if Sting had shared songwriting credit with the other members. It worked well for ZZ Top!

@JRoss707 Год назад

Worked really well for R.E.M. as well.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Definitely.

@coolcat6303 Год назад

Why should he share when be wrote the entire song?

@krazyk57 Год назад

Roxanne only hitting # 32..????? Sounds like a #1 in our hearts to me..😊😊😊

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Huh!

@Geezer-yf8hv Год назад

Same here!

@MatthewFogleMusic Год назад

Great video, as always. In my opinion, the original artist has the creative right to release as many iterations of their song as they wish, and each can be cool and different. Bon Jovi’s “Prayer ‘94” comes to mind.

@Rossturnerphoto Год назад

I don’t remember the 1986 version of the song at all, so I listened to it after watching this video. I like it. It has all the elements and production quality of a song that would’ve been one of my favorites at the time, if I had known it at the time that it was released. Having said that, it is so different than the police’s original material, it sounds more like a Sting solo track to me. I can see why some of their fans didn’t like it.

@TheDisneylover23 2 месяца назад

I am loving this channel! I keep telling all my friends and regulars at work about you, Adam. My dad and your dad would have been fast friends for sure. I do have a question. What does "Three chords and the truth" mean? Can someone give me a clue, please? I know it's gotta be something super cool. I love The Police, and it only made the original movie Dune that much better. Sting was awesome!! We all knew he'd been a teacher before. A lot of my friends ran the local school radio station. We all speculated if it were true. And as a female in her early teens, yes, him being my teacher was a fantasy, and this song just fueled that, lmao! I can NOT be the only one!

@lindamcfarland9656 Год назад

Love The Police! I like the almost regge sound they had on several songs. I like that they never took themselves too seriously and that almost every song seemed to have it's own sound. To me, they couldn't really be pigeonholed. They opened me up to being interested in different genres of music because they seemed to incorporate those in their own songs. Because I liked them and I heard different influences in their music, that led me to other types that I might never have given a chance because they weren't Top 40 and, as a teen, that was all important😆

@Colonel__Ingus69 Год назад

Great video! I consider The Police the beginning of the second British invasion. After this the Union Jack t-shirts became popular again at school. Actually "Don't Stand So Close To Me" was the second top 10 song for the Police the first was De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da hit #10 on Jan. 17, 1981. Don't Stand So Close To Me debuted on the hot 100 on Feb 7th at #78 and broke into the top 40 on Feb 21, 1981 at #39. Looking over the charts from that winter/spring there are so many great but under rated songs.

@wendelwilliams1425 Год назад

"That line"? Nothing wrong with it. If Sting was getting criticized for it, Smokey Robinson/ Stevie Wonder is universally praised for the line in "Tears of a Clown" where he references the famous clown (I am not going to attempt to spell out his name-nor name of the "Lolita" author here!) Both lines are the most memorable lines in those songs and to me show the intelligence of the song authors.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Right. Love Tears of a Clown

@ccl005jn Год назад

Tears of a Clown is one of my favourite songs.

@wendelwilliams1425 Год назад

To clarify on "Tears of a Clown"-Stevie Wonder actually wrote the music for the song (complete with the calliope-sounding "break"), but could not come up with words for it. According to the story, Stevie told Smokey Robinson about the song at a Motown Records event and offered it to Smokey to put words to it. Smokey heard that break as something you would hear at a circus (like the rest of us, I think), and wrote the lyrics fairly quickly for it. And the rest is......

@michaelmcchesney6645 Год назад

I transitioned from a career as a lawyer and legal recruiter to teaching high school social studies. I did this through the NYC Teaching Fellows Program. The program consists of a summer full of education courses before starting as a teacher in the Fall. In one of those education classes was a girl that had graduated from the Bronx High School of Science just as I did. She had graduated only 4 years before, while it had been almost 20 years for me. So naturally, we started asking about teachers we might have had in common. We only hit on one, a physics teacher. When I mentioned him, she said, "Oh him, what a perv!" That reminded me that some of the girls in my physics class had made similar comments about how the way he looked at them made them feel uncomfortable. I immediately made up my mind that I didn't want any student to remember me as "the pervy teacher." To be fair to that teacher, I never heard a suggestion he had done anything other than perhaps leer. There was an earth science teacher at Bronx Science when I was a student who, it later came out, was on the national board of NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love Association. The NYC Department of Education had known he was a member but took no action against him because there was no evidence he had ever molested anyone. Future NYPD Deputy Commissioner, John Miller, then a reporter with Channel 4 news, got footage of him at a NAMBLA meeting with a hidden camera. In the footage, the teacher was advising another DOE employee to keep his membership a secret until he had tenure. He was on sabbatical when the story broke and was never allowed any further contact with students. But it took almost a decade (or perhaps longer) to fire him because of union grievances and lawsuits. Bronx Science has some very politically active parents, so the DOE had no choice but to try and fire him. But it would have been interesting if they had decided to call his bluff and let him go back to the classroom with everyone in the building knowing he believed pedophilia should be legal. First of all, it might have been hard to find students willing to be in one of his classes (or, more importantly, parents willing to let their child be in one of his classes). Knowing teenagers the way that I do, even if he did nothing inappropriate, he would have had multiple students making accusations against him. But firing was the proper thing to do. But they shouldn't have waited till he was exposed to try and fire him.

@tonybrayley-remaxrealtyser3504 Год назад

The Police were such a huge part of my teen years. Love the band!

@stevedaniel1475 4 месяца назад

Actually had this type of thing in our rival Jr. High school. Band teacher (female) was caught making out with a student (male) on the bus coming back from an event. After that, this song was in our minds and conversations for years. "Hey do you remember Ms. so and so? Yeah, maybe she should have listened to this song more." That's what kids do. Great song and miss songs like this that got us to look up things. Never heard of the book until this song came out. Of course the best song for looking up history was "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel. One of the teachers in my daughters school actually took that song and asked each student to pick a line and write an essay on what he was referring to. Just another example of our music becoming timeless.

@jasonbailey9139 Год назад

This falls under my rule of remakes: the first version you hear is always your favorite and it takes a magnificent remake to bump it out of that throne. I heard the remake first, so I like it a lot more than the original. The original is fine, but I prefer the smoother vocals of the remake. It was what prompted me to buy the Police’s back catalog. I only had Synchronicity when this single was released. Ended up buying to two double album cassettes to complete the collection and the Police soon became my first “favorite band”. They’d be de throned by U2, the Cure , and New Order…but all those groups remain in my top five and the order changes with my mood.

@julioroman4420 Год назад

I was 17 when the remix of don't stand so close to me came out, and I've got to tell you, I absolutely loved it! I was just being introduced into the party years of my teens so listening to the remix as well as watching the video, it was like the rebirth of a classic song that I absolutely loved as a preteen and it was given new life.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Nice!

@christopherdieudonne Год назад

I was also around 17 when the remix/remake came out and I was REAL into it. Still am, actually. It was great. I think both versions serve a purpose.

@ricklee4884 Год назад

Love your content brings back lots of memories. That being said i always liked the original version the best. I remember when both versions came out. Talk about a hit truly a great song. Back then student's did have crushes on thier teachers.

@GWP323 Год назад

There have always been songs with creepy/questionable lyrics. In all genres for as long as songs have been made.

@thebunter Год назад

I still remember when I was in social studies class and my friend brought in a 45 of this song. (I forget the reason but it was part of the current teaching) We played the song and after about a minute all of a sudden the teacher got red in the face and turned off the turntable. I still smile every time I hear this song due to that incident. I always loved this song as it was played pretty often during the early 80's.

@carlwalker1623 Год назад

Great comedy, songs, titles , videos , Sting was a fountain of great songs, the Police had their own magic of the 3 . It was Inevitable that Sting would go solo.

@ladykoiwolfe 3 месяца назад

Mom told me that when this song came out it struck her to the core because she had a teacher who was always trying to get her to be inappropriate with him. He was always right there. She couldn't ask for help in his class because he would do her work for her and give her top grades despite her not understanding the work. She wanted to learn, he wanted her. It was a terrible situation. This song reminds her of it everytime she hears it. Knowing her story the song creeps me out, but its still catchy.

@reallyretro Год назад

I always like to think, what could have been if Stewart had never broken his collar bone in 1986 right before those recording sessions for the greatest hits album. Sting was a worldwide success by this point as a solo artist, and they could have arranged things in a way compared to how Genesis and Phil Collins arranged things. Solo tour and then a band tour, and so on. These guys just couldnt get along at all which was sad.

@randytessman6750 Год назад

Being 12 when this came out I had know idea who Nabokov was, trip to the library and search thru the card catalogue to find out(no google) Of course the book was in library so took it home and read it over the next few days. My crew and I used the word "Lolita" for the next few years, especially when as young boys do we had crushes on grown woman. Great song, good video Professor and an EPIC T-shirt !

@scottburton9701 Год назад

"Don't Stand So Close To Me" is a certifiable classic from start to finish.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Key word: certifiable

@TheOldTapeArchive Год назад

Thanks for the video. One clarification: "De Do Do Do De Da Da Da" was their first hit off Zenyatta in America, hitting #10 prior to "Don't Stand So Close" (which also hit #10).

@ESternRN1967 Год назад

The Police were the first band I saw live. Synchronicity tour, Charleston, West Virginia, February 13, 1983. My dad picked me up from school early to make the 2 hour drive and we stayed in the hotel across the street. At breakfast the opening act Re-Flex (The Politics of Dancing) were there so I got my first autographs too, lol

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

I remember Re-Flex! So cool.

@RockandRollWoman Год назад

Lucky you!

@partain2000 Год назад

I can't stand it when there are commercials that use songs improperly such as for under arm deodorant or any other low class junk.

@PenneyThoughts Год назад

"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" is my all-time fav Police/Sting tune, I can't seem to ever get tired of hearing it.

@christopherdieudonne Год назад

Oh yeah, that's a great song. One of my favourites to this day. The music is awesome !!

@joermnyc Год назад

Was watching a “sound like the Police” challenge from a guitar shop in England, and they admitted for Andy Summers it’s gotta be a Telecaster with a humbucker in the neck position, “Which is never used, at all.”😂

@PR-BEACHBOY Год назад

You youngster! We used to cut box tops off cereal boxes to win crappy prizes!

@Whisper_292 Год назад

Don't forget Pepsi points. I got totally addicted to caffeine to get that leather jacket.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

I used to do that in elementary school. We were raising money for a food bank.

@feellucky271 Год назад

I remember getting the Archie records off of the back of cereal boxes and they were actually square-shaped but still played circularly but that goes back to the sixties and early seventies crazy stuff yeah. That's very cool I thought cheers

@franciet99 Год назад

@@feellucky271oh man! I forgot about that!

@feellucky271 Год назад

@@franciet99 You're old.hahah We're not talking about Pepsi Points or McDonald's game pieces this is seriously old stuff from the 70s..50 years give or take innit?. Good on you

@debmuel Год назад

Hey Professor - some of us had to collect the whole box top, we didn’t have those new-fangled UPC thingies.

@stephenbrown4211 Год назад

Great song. When Zenyatta Mondatta came out I was very much into Metal and in the UK The Police were considered a Mod band. (The Reggae style and Stings part in Quadrophenia as The Face). I did like this though and on an impulse went into my local Woolworths and bought the album.

@RBS_ Год назад

... *WOOLWORTHS'!!* ...Oh, the memories of perusing the 45's!!! ....I remember buying "What Kid Of Fool" by Barry & Babs, there, Downtown Brooklyn, '81 .....memmmmorieeesss....

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

I think you made a wise decision on that purchase! What is your favorite Police single?

@RBS_ Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock ....shhhh...pinned Man, PINNED! ...ha-HAA!

@andyjulia Год назад

I had the biggest crush on Sting so I rented Quadrophenia from blockbuster every chance I got.

@stephenbrown4211 Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock as much as I like Don’t stand…. My favourite is Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

@kevinwheesysouthward9295 Год назад

For the longest time, when I was a kid, I thought Spirits in the Material World was actually “🎶🎶🎶We are spare ribs, in the material world. Are spare ribs, in the material world🎶🎶🎶🎶”

@dhpbear2 Год назад

At first, I thought the song was Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher"! :)

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

Another teacher song from a different POV

@dhpbear2 Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock Maybe it was inspired by "DSSCTM".

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Oh, I know what you mean! That video is hilarious.

@johnglielmi6428 Год назад

I was a Police fan since I heard Roxanne. Outlandos D'Amour was a perfect album, not a bad track on that fine piece of vinyl. after that I bought everything they made. such a perfect band. Sting also has had quite a fantastic solo career. You don't hear much from Andy Summers, and Stewart made his money from composing movie and TV soundtracks mostly. Truly they were a force to be reckoned with. A shame they couldn't get past their egos. Can you image how they would have changed music if they didn't part after the Synchronicity Album.

@surlechapeau Год назад

The Police had US college radio's attention by 1979!!

@bobdavis4848 Год назад

You mean college radio play by 1978 ("Can't Stand Losing You"), plus commercial airplay with "Roxanne."

@surlechapeau Год назад

@@bobdavis4848 Roxanne didn't chart anywhere in the world on their 1978 release. "Roxanne" entered the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1979 and peaked at No. 32 in April. "You're thinking of the 1979 re-issue of Roxanne.

@dhpbear2 Год назад

I'm sure the caps and gowns helped :)

@bobdavis4848 Год назад

@@surlechapeau Thanks for your reply. I know about the reissue. But all I wrote was true. You didn't read my comment specifically enough. I did not claim The Police charted or got commercial airplay with "Roxanne" in its 1978 original issue. I know that was in 1979. I heard it on "American Top 40" in 1979 and first bought the 45 with non-LP "Dead End Job." My comment did not give a year for the "commercial airplay with 'Roxanne'" portion, as you'd already mentioned 1979. That's why the comma was there, after the parentheses, to indicate transitioning to a different point. My "1978" only referred to college radio play (some amount for all tracks actually) and starting with the November 2, 1978 album release, they were getting FM airplay with mostly "So Lonely," "Can't Stand Losing You" and "Roxanne." As you likely know, but some other viewers might not. Have a nice day. P.S. FM radio stations were also sometimes commercial radio. Not all FM radio is college radio. As soon as the album was released, and before the "Roxanne" reissue, "Roxanne" was getting commercial FM radio airplay, in late 1978, just not AM / Top 40 play yet.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

What song do you remember was their breakout?

@TheBigBoyBrian Год назад

I first heard the Police after borrowing a mix tape from a neighbour when I got my first walkman - I was bored of ABBA & the Beatles but the mixtape had Message In A Bottle and Don't Stand So Close To Me, they sounded so fresh in 1982! ( I was only 13) I bought the Greatest Hits when it came out and it was definitely one of THE BEST Greatest Hits albums of any 80's bands In the UK they enjoyed 5 number 1's, 10 top 10's and 18 top 40 hits - In a space of 6 years from 1977! It has been difficult finding the 86 remix but it is an excellent addition to their hits collection, is a product of its own time - I had Sting's solo album on cassette which I loved so I was ready for more! Was hoping for more from the Police, so looking back it was disappointing they never came back Did anyone else think it weird that Stewart Copeland's brother Myles was/is Sting's Manager? I didn't think of the song as creepy, I thought it was more of an exploration into a "what if..." you know to be a kind of lesson to us, the audience

@apachekeith Год назад

Definitely a creepy song given he was a teacher at one point but don't think it's autobiographical.

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

Definitely not... But he took quite a risk conjuring this one up, wouldn't you say! Ha ha.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

If so, there would have been an outcry…

@apachekeith Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock Yeah, it was a risk but not as big a one if it was today where almost everybody is carrying the net sum of all human knowledge with them at all times & are looking for something/anything to be offended by.

@davidb2206 Год назад

Why would he ever admit it, if it WERE true?

@laurat1129 Год назад

A fan of The Police since I first heard and saw them on MTV as a kid in the early '80s, I didn't think too much about this song. Then I did as I got older, but I just hoped it was from an objective perspective? Never saw The Police in concert as I was too young, but if memory serves me, I did see Sting for his Dream of the Blue Turtles at the Boston Garden. Great show with lots of jazz and world musicians.💙 p.s. The '86 redo is okay, more like Sting's own, though. His "I Want My MTV", before the guitars come in, is what makes the "Money for Nothing" intro so great.

@dlawlis Год назад

I grew up in the 70s and 80s and it seemed like there was always shenanigans going on between at least one male teacher and one female student (or at least rumors though I remember one girl who did in fact marry a teacher shortly after graduation). It was frowned upon of course but not nearly the way it is now. It was a different time I guess.

@Pubslife Год назад

Yes, that happened at my school too in the late 70’s. The teacher freely spoke of it to our class!

@thornbird6768 Год назад

My school too , the teacher concerned actually was sat in his car with her outside a pub 😮 and was seen by another pupils parents , they informed the school .

@littlecatfeet9064 Год назад

Most of the Police’s singles would be canceled nowadays. I love them and am glad I got to listen to them in the much freer 70s and 80s. I Can’t Stand Losing is my favourite.

@JJDSports2012 Год назад

“I feel so dirty when they start talking cute. I want to tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot.” - Jesse’s Girl Beat that.

@bobdavis4848 Год назад

How about this. If Rick Springfield had sung “I feel so dirty when they start talking cute. I want to tell her that I love her but the point is probably mute.” "Moot" does not quite rhyme with "cute." But "mute" does rhyme with "cute." Using a bit of artistic license in terms of slightly questionable grammar, "mute" works in terms of meaning, as since he doesn't want to feel dirty, he could imagine the sound of them is muted. If you are thinking, "Eh, that's bad," well that is what I meant, haha.

@BillGraper Год назад

"Sweet dreams are made of theeeeeeeeeis. Who am I to disagree?" 😉

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

I actually love that lyric!

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

I follow!

@jacobus57 Год назад

@@bobdavis4848 but "mute" makes no sense, while "moot" does. I'd rather have a minor stretch for the rhyme than nonsense.

@joekeen60 Год назад

When the album came out, I was in junior college, already a huge fan of their first two albums. Original DSSCTM was awesome, full of lurid energy (somewhat taboo subject at that time). As I've aged, the brooding and melancholy '86 remake touches the soul deeper, you can feel the sadness of his yearning to be with her but can't due to illicit nature of such a relationship.

@-mattwood Год назад

The 80s for me would not have existed without the Police, because I don't think I would have stuck around to see them. Like so many GenXers, I literally ended up raising myself. With no supervision from the age of 10 on, I would come home, let myself into the house and be there all by myself until I put myself to bed at night. From early on I was determined to get out of my little town, I hated it. I was naturally talented at art, to everyone at school I was "the kid that could draw" so art (I decided) would be my ticket out. I would come home, ditch my homework on the couch and literally draw ALL night, usually until midnight or close to it, and all that time I would listening to all of my albums on repeat, blasting them either out loud through the empty house or through my headphones - for hour after hour after hour. The Police were so different from everyone else back then, and I bought all of their albums as soon as they came out, no one else I knew followed them. That gave me such a GREAT feeling, like I was different in kind from everyone else around me, like I wasn't going to be stuck there in that little town forever. Well, long story, short... I did it, I moved out at 16, at 18 I landed my first graphic design job (a direct result of all of those years of drawing and art that I'd made) then, in 89 I moved to Colorado and continued my design career there. In 98 I ditched design and started my own illustration studio. Two days ago, on June 1 2023, I celebrated my 25th year in business. I owe so much to the amazingly talented people who sang their songs and and played for me throughout those extremely hard years... they gave me the light I needed to make it through my darkness... and I will always be grateful for that.

@deBebbler Год назад

That rhyme never stood out to me as awful. It doesn't deserve the hate, when there are tons of songs that "rhyme" the same word in lyrics. e.g. way/way

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

I think Sting got critique due the fact that many thought it was pretentious...

@deBebbler Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock I see your point. Sting certainly has had his pretentious moments. Thanks for your reply, Professor.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

It has a literary effect.

@Gladiator0719 Год назад

K-Tel Records used to advertise them all the time on TV in the early 1980's....

@partain2000 Год назад

I love an album that the songs kind of go together. But let me say this also, I love an album that no song relates to each other. That is the beauty of being creative. The 60's through the 80's and some of the 90's were great times for music creativity. Now, I can't think of anything that makes my stomach burn with excitement about music or songwriting.

@Frankie5Angels150 Год назад

So… you just like music. Got it.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

I also like those albums where the songs segue into another.

@feellucky271 Год назад

If you think the 90s were great for music you should have been around during the sixties and seventies cuz what came out in the 90s that holds no candle to the 70s by any means.

@partain2000 Год назад

@@feellucky271 I said some of the 90's music. Metallica, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, R.E.M were a few that made good music. Now I can't think of any music that even compares.

@feellucky271 Год назад

@@partain2000 You're right man I mean you nailed it with the bands you named and there might be a couple more but you're exactly right and I wasn't trying to take away from your 90s comment at all that's about the only good stuff that came out of it. I used to like Metallica about their stuff but personalities and politics you know same old story. Good to see you

@Scott-DJ Год назад

Speaking of...this subject...you should do the story of the infamous track by recently passef on Benny Mardones " Into the Night". Talk about disturbing lyrics and the video certainly didnt help ...I'm not sure whether to believe his story or not. Also...along the lines of controversy...I'd love to hear a story you may know behind Nails "88 lines about 44 women"--which i believe actually made the US charts in the early 80s. Finally...was Sammy Johns "lurid" story in "Chevy Van" real? You have a great channel with most interesting music topics :)

@dgarve Год назад

Nowhere near the worst rhyme in music history. That honor would probably go to Neil Diamond in "I Am, I Said": "I am"... I said To no one there And no one heard at all Not even the chair

@mistylee717 Год назад

This song always gives me the creeps. 3 years after this was released I had a teacher who basically sexually harassed me for my entire freshman year of high school. Like forcing me to sit right beside him or giving me A’s when I earned a B which I knew because I graded my own tests and was put in charge of the grade book. That means he had to go in and erase the’B’ I wrote to replace with an A. If I didn’t pay him enough attention, he would sing to me. Sometimes he would tell dirty jokes to the boys and then have them tell it to me so he could see my reaction. One day he reached across his desk, grabbed my arm and said, “I have a thing for you.” I said, “what is it?” He said, “I’m serious. I have a thing for you.” I said “whatever it is, I don’t want it.” One day I got off at my bus stop and saw his car right there. He was in the driveway of a house that was empty. I knew the kid that had lived there but he had just moved. I asked him what he was doing there. He said, “this is my house”. I said “no seriously”. He said, “seriously, this is my house.” I said, “you bought it?” “Yes” “why?” “Let’s call it an investment.” He told me to go home to drop off my books at my house and come back to see him. I always wondered how long he waited before he gave up and went home. After that He started being occasionally cruel to me in class. He would Call on me when I didn’t raise my hand and then ridicule me for not knowing the answer calling me an idiot in front of everyone. Such a pervy jerk.

@RockandRollWoman Год назад

Yuck, so sorry you had to endure that. I hope that if stuff like that happens in 2023, the student feels safe enough to report it.

@rogerdeahl9629 Год назад

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Love The Police! Another band that masqueraded as a soap opera. Shame, as they could have dominated if they would have stayed together. Don't Stand os a creepy song, of I recall, so was the video. Thanks for this, Professor. Nice shirt. .... appropriate for today. Enjoy the weekend.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

That video was pretty weird.

@stevelanemusic4463 Год назад

Wow, talk about Synchronicity! 😄 My son and I were at a Hi Fi store listing to a 30,000.00 speaker system yesterday. I asked to hear ONE song on vinyl and it was Don't Stand So Close To Me. That is crazy, just crazy...

@thomasmurray3920 Год назад

I loved that rhyme. The use of non-standard words on rhyming patterns has always appealed to me. Cute and moot in Jessie’s girls is another one that I’ve always liked.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Cough/Nabokov.

@christopherdieudonne Год назад

Rhianna rhymed "girl" with "world". LOL

@flavellinator Год назад

Big song my senior year in high school! I knew good things were going to be happening with the Police and they did not disappoint... I'm a teacher, so that memory you have from back then is a funny one... Great show, PoR!

@lauraowens172 Год назад

I actually like the Nabokov rhyme. The worst rhyme in rock/pop is when Steve Miller in Take the Money & Run tried to rhyme "detective down in Texas" with "He knows exactly what the facts is." I'm sorry, but "Texas" & "facts is" don't rhyme at all.

@debbieomi Год назад

But, facts is and taxes do which is an ABCB rhyme pattern.

@donaldwiggins9890 Год назад

"Sweet dreams are made of this, who am to disagree?"

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Detective pays his taxes, he knows exactly what the facts is.

@davidb2206 Год назад

Plenty of pop/rock songs have no rhyme pattern at all.

@phil4208 Год назад

When I first heard Roxanne I became a police fan and one album became my favorite, message in a box , one well known incident that ill never forget is when the stones were on tour , they were in their hotel , someone opened the door and shouted, the police are here, Ron wood and Keith Richard's ran to the bathroom and flushed drugs down the toilet , then sting , Andy, and stu came in and said hello , Keith screamed we just flushed thousands of dollars, it's alright, your the cool police

@clout74 Год назад

I prefer the '86 re-recording, too! The 12" Version is on my playlist of my favorite songs of the 80s.

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

I think the 86 re-record is pretty amazing actually. Good call. Why do you like it?

@RBS_ Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock ....I can give MY take...moodier, more 'Adult', and more of a 'Sting' - vibe.....still have the 45..... ; )

@clout74 Год назад

The re-recording sounds more like a Sting solo single. More polished, with a good mid 80s Pop production.

@RBS_ Год назад

@@clout74 ...yeah, like I said! ....Only us Journeymen can 'hear' the difference....

@dhpbear2 Год назад

This is the first time I've heard it. Definitely better production values.

@georgemathie8123 Год назад

June 17th will mark the 40th anniversary of the blockbuster that is synchronicity and it still has the impact and power to move us fans even today

@andyandteresehunnel6531 Год назад

I actually read Lolita because of this song.

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

What did you think of it?

@RBS_ Год назад

...I actually heard the word, "Nabakov", like, EVER! ....We keep gettin' educated, Man....

@andyandteresehunnel6531 Год назад

@Professor of Rock The first reading was somewhat disturbing. Then I read: "Reading Lolita in Tehran". It gave great insights into the meaning behind the story. I then reread Lolita and greatly enjoyed it.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Have you watched the 1962 film?

@AudioTech50 Год назад

Sting got his moniker plsying bass in a jazz ckub in Sheffied, England while he was still an English teacher. He often wote a a yellow-and-black-striped rugby shirt; he was refeerred to as "The Stinger".

@Rabijeel Год назад

The Police has aq pretty good Track Record in "Songs that depict sexual harassment, stalking and r**e".

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

When you put it that way...

@jacobus57 Год назад

Yeah. Tolerable if you don't listen to the lyrics. Okay if it was a one or two off, but creeper pervades their entire catalog.

@rockhopper01 Год назад

@@jacobus57 Music can tell stories without endorsing the actions or characters.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Every Breath You Take is a prime example.

@jacobus57 Год назад

@@rockhopper01 I'm well aware, but with The Police it was a persistent theme, not an early career one-off like, say, The Beatles Run for Your Life.

@rwjenkins Год назад

I was just a kid when the original version came out and I don’t remember hearing it back then (The Police didn’t really get onto my radar until Synchronicity came out a few years later), so I heard the 1986 version before the original. In fact when I heard the original song for the first time, I thought it was a jazzed-up remix, and the 1986 version was the original version. I like them both, but it has been a few years since I have heard the 1986 version. I remember it being all over the radio back in the mid/late 80s, but it faded away while the original version continues to get airplay on the classic rock stations.

@timbates6309 Год назад

Covid-19 theme song.

@Whisper_292 Год назад

😂

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

No! But yes...

@leannelittle6067 Год назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Good one!

@RBS_ Год назад

...ha-HAAA!! ....DON'T ruin it for us Ol' Folk, Man!!

@davidruff7514 Год назад

@@RBS_ lmao the fact that it translates your comment just to add an s to Folks cracks me up!!!!

@mikepaulus4766 Год назад

In the 90s when bands were putting out box sets, The Police called theirs Message In A Box. That's when I first heard Murder By Numbers. It was the B side of Every Breath You Take single, but it didn't make it on the Synchronicity album. It sounds like they recorded it live, first take, when they barely knew it.

@fieldcroft Год назад

Terrible rhymes in pop songs? I believe the Steve Miller Band would like to enter the chat!

@davidb2206 Год назад

That "pompatus of love" still grates. Hated it from the first airplay.

@albinodevil Год назад

This 80s baby Love's your channel, listen to a new one every day.

@MyName-pl7zn Год назад

Can't acknowledge Police great work without the story of all the clashing egos within the band. Perhaps that what made this band so great 3 great artists with each competing to make each song even better. I like the original release best

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

I think it made them who they were. Such passion... Ego worked. Thanks My Name!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

It wasn’t rosy, but at least we have their music.

@heathermackie7390 Год назад

Loved the remix!! The original is a gem!! The very first police song I remember listening to was King of pain. Have you covered this one yet?

@D-Fens_1632 Год назад

One of many in a string of songs dealing with forbidden love with a questionable age gap. I think Billy Idol was the last to get away with it on "Cradle of Love." Then sometime in the 90s we all agreed it was creepy.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Wasn’t Maggie May about that too?