The Police’s Synchronicity to be reissued as a deluxe field set

4 many years after its unique launch, The Police’s masterpiece album, Synchronicity, is to be reissued as a deluxe boxset, together with never-before-heard variations and demos.

Reissued on 26 July by UMR / Polydor throughout a number of codecs, together with 6CD, 4LP, 2CD, 2LP Colored, 1LP Image Disc and a digital album, the set accommodates 55 beforehand unreleased tracks, new liner notes and interviews, uncommon archive memorabilia and unseen images.

Basic Album

Synchronicity made No.1 around the globe, promoting greater than 15 million globally (8.5 million gross sales of which had been from the US alone).

That includes the hit singles Each Breath You Take, King Of Ache, Wrapped Round Your Finger, and Synchronicity II, the album’s title and far of the fabric for the songs had been impressed by Arthur Koestler’s e-book The Roots of Coincidence.

Lead single Each Breath You Take, initially launched on 20 Might 1983, would go on to be essentially the most performed track in radio historical past, with greater than 15 million performs.

The album obtained 5 Grammy Award nominations in 1984 and gained three (Greatest Rock Efficiency by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Track of the 12 months (Each Breath You Take) and Greatest Pop Efficiency by a Duo or Group with Vocal).

Making A Masterpiece

This reissue has been three years within the making, created with the band’s involvement and endorsement. The accompanying 62-page boxset booklet accommodates in depth new liner notes which particulars the conception and notorious beginning of arguably The Police’s masterpiece.

Over 40 years on, all three members of the band proceed to mark the legacy of The Police.

Stewart Copeland printed his Police Diaries and toured the world together with his Police Deranged live shows. In October and November Stewart will carry out throughout the UK together with his new spoken-word present Have I Stated Too A lot? Andy Summers has printed a number of pictures books specializing in the Police period. He’s presently touring his Cracked Lens + A Lacking String present throughout the US. Whereas Sting continues to tour extensively and  his present US and European Tour runs all through 2024.

This Synchronicity set guarantees to be a treasure trove for followers of the band:

CD Codecs

6CD Boxset
CD1 is the unique album together with Homicide By Numbers, all remastered immediately from the unique supply tapes.
CD2 options 18 tracks containing all unique 7″ / 12″ B-sides plus 11 unique non-album bonus tracks, accessible on CD for the primary time.
CD3 and CD4 accommodates beforehand unreleased alternate takes of all of the Synchronicity songs.
CD4 additionally options unreleased Police songs together with an early model of Andy Summers’ 1982 observe Goodbye Tomorrow (later renamed Somebody To Discuss To); a demo of a Stewart Copeland penned track I’m Blind which later resurfaced because the renamed Brothers on Wheels for Copeland’s acclaimed soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumblefish; an unreleased first take of Reality Hits Everyone (initially from the 1978 debut Outlandos d’Amour); and uncommon covers of the Eddie Cochran track Three Steps To Heaven and Rock and Roll Music by Chuck Berry.
CD5 and CD6 options 19 reside recordings – all beforehand unreleased – captured on 10 September 1983 on the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum.

Six-Disc Restricted Version Deluxe Boxset Full Tracklisting

CD One

Synchronicity I
Strolling In Your Footsteps
O My God
Mom
Miss Gradenko
Synchronicity II
Each Breath You Take
King Of Ache
Wrapped Round Your Finger
Tea In The Sahara
Homicide By Numbers

CD Two (Bonus)

Reality Hits Everyone (Remix)
Man In A Suitcase (Stay At The Selection Arts Theatre, Los Angeles, USA / 16 January 1981)
Somebody To Discuss To
Message In A Bottle (Stay At The Gusman Cultural Middle, Miami, USA / 26 October 1979)
I Burn For You
As soon as Upon A Daydream
Tea In The Sahara (Stay At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3 November 1983)
Each Breath You Take (Backing Monitor)
Roxanne (Backing Monitor)
Wrapped Round Your Finger (Stay At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3 November 1983)
Each Bomb You Make
Strolling On The Moon (Stay At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3 November 1983)
Gap In My Life (Stay At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3 November 1983)
One World (Not Three) (Stay At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3 November 1983)
Invisible Solar (Stay At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 2 November 1983)
Homicide By Numbers (Stay At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 2 November 1983)
Strolling In Your Footsteps (Derangement)
Tea In The Sahara (Derangement)

CD Three (Unreleased – Half 1)

Synchronicity I (Demo)
Synchronicity I (Alternate Combine)
Synchronicity I (Instrumental)
Strolling In Your Footsteps (Alternate Model)
Strolling In Your Footsteps (Alternate Combine)
O My God (Demo)
O My God (Outtake)
O My God (OBX Model)
O My God (Alternate Combine)
Mom (Alternate Model)
Mom (Instrumental)
Miss Gradenko (Alternate Combine)
Synchronicity II (Demo)
Synchronicity II (Outtake)
Synchronicity II (Prolonged Model)
Synchronicity II (Alternate Combine)
Synchronicity II (Instrumental)

CD 4 (Unreleased – Half 2)

Each Breath You Take (Demo)
Each Breath You Take (Outtake)
Each Breath You Take (Alternate Combine)
King Of Ache (Demo)
King Of Ache (Alternate Model)
King Of Ache (Alternate Combine)
Wrapped Round Your Finger (Demo)
Wrapped Round Your Finger (Alternate Combine)
Wrapped Round Your Finger (Instrumental)
Tea In The Sahara (Demo)
Tea In The Sahara (Alternate Combine)
Homicide By Numbers (Demo)
I’m Blind (Demo)
Loch
Ragged Man
Goodbye Tomorrow
Reality Hits Everyone (Remix) (Outtake)
Three Steps To Heaven
Rock And Roll Music

CD 5 (Stay Pt. 1 – Unreleased) Stay At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10 September 1983

Synchronicity I
Synchronicity II
Strolling In Your Footsteps
Message In A Bottle
Strolling On The Moon
O My God
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Wrapped Round Your Finger
Tea In The Sahara
Spirits Within the Materials World

CD Six (Stay Pt. 2 – Unreleased) Stay At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10 September 1983

Gap In My Life
Invisible Solar
One World (Not Three)
King Of Ache
Don’t Stand So Shut To Me
Homicide By Numbers
Each Breath You Take
Roxanne
Can’t Stand Shedding You

A 2CD Deluxe reissue may even be accessible, that includes the identical observe checklist as detailed on CD1 and CD2 of the boxset.

The reissue may even be accessible as a Digital Field Set, accessible on all DSPs and can mirror the 6CD.

 

Vinyl Codecs

The reissue can be accessible in three completely different vinyl codecs: 4LP Tremendous Deluxe Version (Restricted Version), 2LP Deluxe (Colored Double Vinyl, D2C Unique) and 1LP Image Disc (Alternate Sequence, Restricted Version).

4LP Tremendous Deluxe Version (Restricted Version)
LP One Unique vinyl observe checklist
LP Two A number of 7″ / 12″ B-sides and reside recordings
LP Three A number of unreleased alternate takes and demos from the Synchronicity periods
LP 4 (Facet A) A number of unreleased alternate takes and demos from the Synchronicity periods
LP 4 (Facet B) Six unreleased songs as detailed in CD4 of the boxset description, except for I’m Blind

4LP Tremendous Deluxe Version (Restricted Version) Full Tracklisting

LP One

Facet A
Synchronicity I
Strolling In Your Footsteps
O My God
Mom
Miss Gradenko
Synchronicity II
Facet B
Each Breath You Take
King Of Ache
Wrapped Round Your Finger
Tea In The Sahara

LP Two (Bonus)

Facet A
Homicide By Numbers
Reality Hits Everyone (Remix)
Man In A Suitcase (Stay At The Selection Arts Theatre, Los Angeles, USA / 16 January 1981)
Somebody To Discuss To
Message In A Bottle (Stay At The Gusman Cultural Middle, Miami, USA / 26 October 1979)
I Burn For You
Facet B
As soon as Upon A Daydream
Tea In The Sahara (Stay At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3 November 1983)
Each Breath You Take (Backing Monitor)
Roxanne (Backing Monitor)
Wrapped Round Your Finger (Stay At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3 November 1983)
Each Bomb You Make

LP Three (Unreleased)

Facet A
Synchronicity I (Alternate Combine)
Synchronicity I (Instrumental)
Strolling In Your Footsteps (Alternate Combine)
O My God (Alternate Combine)
Mom (Instrumental)
Miss Gradenko (Alternate Combine)
Facet B
Synchronicity II (Outtake)
Synchronicity II (Prolonged Model)
Synchronicity II (Instrumental)
Each Breath You Take (Alternate Combine)

LP 4 (Unreleased)

Facet A
King Of Ache (Alternate Model)
King Of Ache (Alternate Combine)
Wrapped Round Your Finger (Alternate Combine)
Wrapped Round Your Finger (Instrumental)
Tea In The Sahara (Alternate Combine)
Facet B
Loch
Ragged Man
Goodbye Tomorrow
Reality Hits Everyone (Remix) (Outtake)
Three Steps To Heaven
Rock And Roll Music

2LP Deluxe (Colored Double Vinyl, D2C Unique)
LP One  Unique vinyl observe checklist
LP Two A number of 7″ / 12″ B-sides and reside recordings

1LP Image Disc (Alternate Sequence, Restricted Version)
Unique vinyl observe checklist however with a special working order of songs

To pre-order click on right here

Take a look at our The Police Interview

Need extra from Basic Pop journal?  Signal as much as our publication!