The MOST PLAYED Song in History Is Actually Pretty Creepy… | Professor Of Rock

The Police created the 1983 #1 Hit Every Breath You Take at a tumultuous time.. Sting was going through a painful divorce, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers were fighting tooth and nail with Sting to get their ideas heard and producer Hugh Padgham was in the middle of the strife. Manager Miles Copeland had to go lay down the law. They were the biggest band in the world and they wanted Synchronicity to be the biggest record on the charts so they were able to stop the fist fights for a time to create a blockbuster. Sting sat down to write a love song one night but it turned into a sinister stalker song. Every Breath You Take would take a lot to finish but when it dropped it went to #1 for 8 weeks… The biggest song of `1983 and the most played song ever. Get ready for a riveting story of the trio who had an outright songwriting brawl, all the way to #1.
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By 1983, The Police were at the height of their rockstar powers... They were, both in their own minds and everyone else’s, the world’s biggest band. Their fifth studio album Synchronicity was vying to be 83’s biggest album alongside Michael Jackson’ Thriller, which spent 22 weeks at #1 that year. And although Synchronicity would ultimately take second place, it still turned in an incredible 17 weeks at #1. Just to give you a little perspective, these two juggernauts combined for 74% of the #1 rankings that year. That’s means three out of every four weeks, it was either MJ or The Police at #1... For the entire year! It was phenomenal.
That left very little opportunity for the rest of the music industry to claim the crown. Men at Work, Quiet Riot, Lionel Richie, and the Flashdance Soundtrack all divvied up the scraps. For the Police, so much of this success hinged on a timeless song that not only became the biggest hit of the year, even surpassing Michael Jackson’s biggest hits off thriller. Of course, I’m talking about ‘Every Breath You Take’. In fact, the song was so popular that it spent almost 14 months in heavy rotation on MTV. And actually, MTV was so high on The Police that they gave the band top billing through the year, featuring them prominently in their ‘I Want My MTV” ad campaign. They also promoted them via TV specials, exclusive interviews, meet the band contests, and free ticket giveaways.
The Police were on top of the world. It seemed like nothing could slow their momentum. Nothing except, maybe themselves. Behind closed doors lead singer-slash-bassist Sting, guitarist Andy Summers, and drummer Stewart Copeland were falling apart... even more than usual.So, let’s rewind to the making of Synchronicity and figure out how it all got to this point.
On December 12, 1982, The Police gathered at AIR Studios on the Caribbean isle of Montserrat to begin recording their fifth album. But according to Andy Summers, the three musicians were thousands of miles apart. It was like Sting was at North Pole, Andy at the South Pole, and Stewart somewhere in the tropics. Said producer Hugh Padgham, “by the time of Synchronicity, they were sick of each other -