N°7 STING & THE POLICE - ROXANNE

The police was a 3 member band formed in 1977 by Gordon Sumner (aka Sting), Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland. Although they existed only seven years they were of greatly inluence for late 70's and 80's music. And even that's not completely correct. The Police never really split; they took a break for the many solo projects each of the band members had. In 2007 the three of them decided to do a reunion tour celebration their 30th anniversary. During that tour Sting's son, Joe, would play some of the gigs as the supporting act with his band Friction Plane. Friction Plane is also an anagram of Infant Police referring to his father's band.

Their many many hits have been influenced mainly by Bob Marley's reggea music. Reaggea mixed with rock and pop which you can here in songs like "De doo doo doo, de daa daa daa", "Message in a bottle", "Walking on the moon" and espacially in the one I posted: "Roxanne".

Sting wrote the song, a story, based upon some prostitutes near his hotel whe he spent some time in France, also inspired by a character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, which he saw in Paris. Those two combined made him write lyrics as "you don't have to wear that dress tonight".

Since this is the official recorded track, did you notice the out-of-tone piano chord at the beginning followed by Sting's laughter? A little hick-up when recording the song but they decided to keep it in the record.