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Live! (The Police album)

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Length
  
144:07

Release date
  
29 May 1995

Label
  
A&M Records

Artist
  
The Police

Producer
  
Andy Summers

Genre
  
New wave

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Released
  
May 29, 1995 (1995-05-29)

Recorded
  
27 November 1979; 2–3 November 1983

Venue
  
Orpheum Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts; The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia

Live!(1995)
  
The Very Best of Sting & The Police(1997, 2002)

Similar
  
The Police albums, New wave albums

Live! is a live album by The Police, released in 1995. Disc one contains almost the complete concert on 27 November 1979 at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. Disc two contains excerpts from two concerts on 2–3 November 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia at The Omni during the Synchronicity tour for the album of the same name. The 1983 shows were also featured in the 1984 Synchronicity Concert VHS and the 2005 DVD release.

Contents

An edited version of "Can't Stand Losing You" from the first disc was released as a single and reached number 27 in the UK charts, while the album itself reached number 25.

Track listing

All songs written by Sting except when noted.

Disc 1

  1. "Next to You" – 2:57
  2. "So Lonely" – 7:32
  3. "Truth Hits Everybody" – 2:34
  4. "Walking on the Moon" – 4:59
  5. "Hole in My Life" – 4:08
  6. "Fall Out" (Stewart Copeland) – 2:46
  7. "Bring On the Night" – 5:16
  8. "Message in a Bottle" – 4:27
  9. "The Bed's Too Big Without You" – 8:53
  10. "Peanuts" (Sting, Copeland) – 3:07
  11. "Roxanne" – 4:42
  12. "Can't Stand Losing You"/"Regatta de Blanc" (Copeland, Sting, Andy Summers) – 7:54
  13. "Landlord" (Sting, Copeland) – 2:27
  14. "Born in the 50's" – 4:18
  15. "Be My Girl – Sally" (Sting, Summers) – 4:51

Disc 2

  1. "Synchronicity I" – 2:52
  2. "Synchronicity II" – 4:44
  3. "Walking in Your Footsteps" – 4:54
  4. "Message in a Bottle" – 4:35
  5. "O My God" – 3:36
  6. "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" – 4:32
  7. "Wrapped Around Your Finger" – 5:21
  8. "Tea in the Sahara" – 4:52
  9. "Spirits in the Material World" – 2:57
  10. "King of Pain" – 5:53
  11. "Don't Stand So Close to Me" – 3:46
  12. "Every Breath You Take" – 4:37
  13. "Roxanne" – 6:10
  14. "Can't Stand Losing You"/"Regatta de Blanc" (Copeland, Sting, Summers) – 6:48
  15. "So Lonely" – 7:26

Personnel

  • Andy Summers – guitar, Taurus pedals, backing vocals, spoken word on "Be My Girl – Sally", keyboards
  • Sting – bass, lead vocals, synthesizers, oboe
  • Stewart Copeland – drums, percussion, xylophone, backing vocals

    • Additional personnel (disc 2 only)

  • Michelle Cobb – backing vocals
  • Dolette McDonald – backing vocals
  • Tessa Niles – backing vocals

    • Production

  • Producer: Andy Summers
  • Executive producers: The Police and Miles Copeland III
  • Engineers: Wolfgang Amadeus and Eddie King
  • Assistant engineer: Jun Murakawa
  • Photography: Lynn Goldsmith and Jill Furmanosky
  • Art direction and design: Norman Moore

    • Songs

    Next to You2:58
    So Lonely7:34
    Truth Hits Everybody2:33

    References

    Live! (The Police album) Wikipedia
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