Songs · Skopia

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5 songs

Don't Stand So Close to Me

1980 · From Zenyatta Mondatta

Sting drew on his years teaching and on Nabokov, then watched it become Britain's best-selling single of 1980.

★ 6.3

1981 · From Ghost in the Machine

Four years in Sting's drawer before The Police cut it, and Jean Roussel's piano overdubs are why it soars.

★ 6.8

1978

Strummer expected roots rebellion at an all-night Palais reggae bill, got showbiz, and slipped reggae bass into punk.

★ 7.2

1979 · From Reggatta de Blanc

Summers' arpeggiated riff, Sting's castaway pleading over it, and the first of the Police's five UK number ones.

★ 7.3

1978 · From Outlandos d'Amour

Copeland turned Sting's bossa nova into a tango, and the piano clang at the top was an accident they kept.

★ 7.6