Tonight's Musical Interlude - The Police
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Couple of comments:
I remember seeing Sting in an interview commenting on how people tell him they love this song - "It's the song my wife and I played at our wedding," and all kinds of stuff.
Sting said that this is not a love song.. It's a song about distrust and surveillance.
As to the "only 3 people" comment. I saw The Who twice (both times before Keith Moon died). It was amazing how these three guys (and a vocalist) could make great sound.
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Not only is it clearly about stalking, he felt compelled to later release the song “if you love somebody set them free” to counter the criticism he got for those lyrics.
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Saw them in the mid 80s. Great show.
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@George-K said in Tonight's Musical Interlude - The Police:
As to the "only 3 people" comment …
Pianists, organists, singer-songwriter types with a guitar or piano would laugh at this.
“Musical completeness” is like infinity, a proper subset of infinity can still be infinite. -
That was the one. The Fixx and Flock of Seagulls opened for them.
Some people were throwing golf balls at the stage when Flock of Seagulls played.