This was my introduction to Sting and the police a million years ago. Still have the vinyl, the best version
@marclawrence663 жыл бұрын
Even by his own high standards, this is the best version of Roxanne ever. Sting is mesmerising, just totally singing his heart out. Incredible vocal. No ego, just sonically perfect.
@uscg90611 ай бұрын
word
@unnamed_Art8 ай бұрын
this video is in a higher key, search another video, this channel posted this and message in a bottle with a higher key, not the original key, idk why but they did post it like that
@dough2259 Жыл бұрын
I was there for this performance, live in London in 1981, only a few hundred of us there. The video, as great as it is, does not do it justice. I do not recall the guitar at all. Maybe it was there, but I think it was just acoustic for us in the audience. All I recall is his voice. Most incredible performance I ever witnessed.
@Cyberia3984 ай бұрын
What an amazing story! I’ve always wondered who owned the original recording and why it was never available digitally. The radio jocks at 2JJJ in Sydney always played this version in the 80s and at some stage I found a torrented MP3 of it online. Long lost on some old hard drive. I never saw the Police live but did see Sting on the Dream of the Blue Tutles tour in Sydney in April 1986 and it blew us away. I’ve never seen a more impressive set of musicians in a pop/rock type concert.
@_6079SMITH20 күн бұрын
It's scary how good this is. 🙏
@Cyberia3985 жыл бұрын
This is the only version for me - it’s the one I grew up with. I do not understand why this version of Roxanne is so hard to find, it is the purest, most affecting version of this song. Thank you so much for keeping it alive!
@quike384 жыл бұрын
you are completely right, it's so rare to find the secret policeman's other ball album, at ;least on MP3, and indeed it's a great version. i like it better than the others
@arturoocana87493 жыл бұрын
Gracias x subirlo desde el callao peru saludos
@davidjames4980 Жыл бұрын
It’s on the live album , secret policeman’s other ball
@bryancollins6903 Жыл бұрын
YES! This Live Sting solo... It's the Ultimate! He's what... 28. 30 years old?? He's a kid.... Excellente'
@andrewthompson77077 ай бұрын
Well, the reggae vibe with the band really adds
@ibassnote Жыл бұрын
Yeah, this is it...Sting at the height of his powers. Pure class. A true artist.
@Auntkekebaby8 ай бұрын
A music god of the highest order. HIs voice is ecstasy. I'm been listening to this version for decades! Spectacular performance and RED HOT ending!! 🥵🥵🥵♨♨♨
@kirkstevens8499 Жыл бұрын
Hey kids, look… no autotune, no dancers, no backing tracks! Just vocals and guitar and supreme talent..
@enricobarchi889211 ай бұрын
Only lots of echo and reverb! 😂
@_6079SMITH21 күн бұрын
@@enricobarchi8892 And ? Your point being ? 😅
@enricobarchi889221 күн бұрын
@@_6079SMITH I mean echo and reverb are not auto tune but help anyway.
@_6079SMITH20 күн бұрын
I hear you😊😀
@freddybeebop6756 Жыл бұрын
Yes my favorite version by far. Lots of reverb, lots of emotion, quirky but catchy song. All the notes are there (very difficult song to sing). This is the definition of 'killing it'.
@cafinario Жыл бұрын
He blew minds off with Roxanne and Message that night, epic.
@kevinshow9034 Жыл бұрын
The best version of this song
@bryancollins6903 Жыл бұрын
Sting= Born in October 1951.. So he is 30 years old here! Can anyone relate to when you turned 30 yrs. Young,,, could you Play and Sing with that confidence and talent at 30!! Exeptional!
@A1B2C3-y6k7 ай бұрын
I was in a dead-end job. I think he wrote a song about it.
@_6079SMITH21 күн бұрын
@@A1B2C3-y6k I get you 😅😅😅
@giddyma13 жыл бұрын
Last heard this almost 30 years ago on Capital Radio 194m on the Medium Wave.
@kellenrose61462 жыл бұрын
Para mí, la mejor version de esta grandiosa cancion
@chrissettle9610 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant
@christiansepulveda401411 ай бұрын
Cuando tenía sólo 13 años escuché por primera vez esta versión junto con Message in a bottle (1983). Fue en los especiales de media noche en radio Concierto de Chile (94.1). Lo habían promocionado durante el día así que grabé en cassette todo el especial. Aún lo tengo guardado y años después volví a escucharlo remasterizado. No hay versión que la iguale; quedó plasmada en mis oidos hasta el fin de los tiempos.
@GayleClark-cl6nl Жыл бұрын
Brilliant performance
@welks8213 жыл бұрын
The man is a god.
@ruthdixon78077 ай бұрын
a solo version that brings out the song's cheeky pathos.
@ledeyabaklykova2 ай бұрын
Omg! It is a Tango piece!
@daveanthony29593 жыл бұрын
Too cool. Thanks.
@omargallardo7089 Жыл бұрын
Está versión de roxanne y message son las mejores que escuche de sting
@A1B2C3-y6k7 ай бұрын
If anyone can show me a better live version of this song I'd love to hear it. What a vocal performance. I love the chords he uses here too. Sting is an absolute phenomenon. As with the performance of Message In A Bottle at this event, the sound mix is so good. The limiters on the desk must have been pushed right up. Brilliant.
@mauriciovillatoro296118 күн бұрын
Bruno mars at cosmos barbershop, i aint got the audacity to say that it’s better, but it’s really good, is way closer than you can imagine, you’re gonna love hear it
@mikeslade1557 Жыл бұрын
Simply the best.
@chupiperea9 жыл бұрын
Thank You!
@arturoocana87493 жыл бұрын
Gracias x subirlo callao peru
@alfredogonzalezsalazar6169 Жыл бұрын
Que gran rola
@miaolga61676 ай бұрын
Sting sometimes is the british bob dylan
@daveanthony29593 жыл бұрын
💯🎶🎵😁❤️
@daveross7 Жыл бұрын
The police were brilliant but sting was outstanding.
@girlplanetboy2 жыл бұрын
Literally just watched him perform this in Manheim on the Ukraine Stop War tour (on KZbin of course) and....this 1981 version is, as most comments below allude to, the GOAT. Fast forward to 2022, 41 years later, and... the magic is gone. This is no way meant as a slur, I have been his biggest fan since I first heard Walking On The Moon on TOTPs 1979, it's just kinda sad to listen to in comparison, that's all. The man is a living ledge...he's done it all an unfathomable number of times and is still going strong, just a little less Sting-like. But at least he did, for many-a-year, sound like he'd just fallen from Heaven as he does here. From the King of Pain to the pain of kings. X
@ibassnote Жыл бұрын
Yeah. He’s fallen to self-parody and self-congratulatory performances. But we have this to remember just how potent he was. He’s still a fantastic musician, but he’s like 70 years old! A lot of his energy was pure testosterone and we all lose that with time. A master.
@GayleClark-cl6nl Жыл бұрын
Of course it would be gone. Geez mate, give him a break. He's 72 now. I know you didn't mean it as a slur, but no vocalist can replicate what they did 40 or so years ago
@girlplanetboy Жыл бұрын
@@GayleClark-cl6nl Geez mate, give him a break. Who are you - his wife? Say something of interest or STFU
@unnamed_Art9 ай бұрын
@@GayleClark-cl6nlpeter gabriel might
@miketabor2426Ай бұрын
I don't recall if Roxanne was one of the Symphonicities Live In Berlin songs he did , but I know the Symphonicities version of Roxanne is understated and absolutely gorgeous. For a long time the studio version bored me to tears. Than I heard the Symphonic version and fell in love all over again. I think this live version from '81 and the Symphonic version decades later re great bookends to this classic song. Vibrant youth contrasting with a sobering maturity.
@denverdon3450 Жыл бұрын
When he uploaded this video he had the volume turned way down!!
@irinadavid80014 сағат бұрын
Heard this on pirate radio, already a huge Police fan, bought this album as soon as I could. Shame sting is such a twat.
@jaimeverdugo5398 Жыл бұрын
Al fin lo encontré,en video,siempre estos dos temas( Roxanne, y message in a bottle)en audio , antiguo,q" buena presentación en esta versión,gran banda THE POLICE,la mejor
@katrinamarquez40967 ай бұрын
@joe-vz6hx Жыл бұрын
why were the first few seconds where he sings "Roxanne" deleted? and honestly instead we get this pointless little VCR thing in the beginning
@unnamed_Art9 ай бұрын
well it was recorded in vhs so he might notve recorded the beginning, theres a full version on yt tho
@fabioagresta21042 жыл бұрын
Sting qui è fantascientifico!!!!!!!!!!
@abiclair71684 жыл бұрын
Mmmmm
@daveanthony29593 жыл бұрын
Totally
@custer24492 жыл бұрын
The fascinating thing about this song is not just that he's singing about a prostitute but the psychology of the boy's perspective of being in love with an unattainable girl who, in all probability, will never care at all about him, as he tries to take the prostitute out of the woman. This song is unusual on many levels. It should be a landmark of child or adolescent or even adult, male psychology.
@demetrios32328 ай бұрын
Beautifully written.
@martindigweed447 Жыл бұрын
Chorus, flanger or phaser?
@MarcVaillo Жыл бұрын
Reverb
@enricobarchi889211 ай бұрын
Plus echo
@jeffball665610 ай бұрын
Sounds like a flanger and some delay in the guitar.
@lukehunnable2 ай бұрын
That's just a ridiculous voice. Goodness me, the man was gifted, no doubt
@HarryNansen7 ай бұрын
Most incredible voice. The guitar sounds like crap.
@buffaloblues22073 жыл бұрын
Amazing songwriter but not exactly Hendrix lol.
@mikelandis32182 жыл бұрын
Perhaps,… but could Jimi really lay it down like this? all by himself? Just a voice a song and a guitar? I don't think so
@priyankarchakraborty81752 жыл бұрын
@@mikelandis3218 Agreed
@theonlygannonyouknow82572 жыл бұрын
no cause Jimi wasn't a great singer 😂
@rollingthunder9579 Жыл бұрын
What's wrong with the guitar playing? It's not easy to play Roxanne or the other song he played at this gig, Message in a Bottle, and sing at the same time, solo, particularly as the guitar parts in Police songs often have unusual chords and timing thanks to Andy Summers. Yet Sting is spot on with the vocals, the chords and dynamics, that is, the moments of intensity and quieter moments he wants to bring to the songs . It's a hell of a performance.
@cafinario Жыл бұрын
Who needs to play like Hendrix for a song like this, absolutely nonsense.