The Police - 1983-08-02 - Montreal, Canada (FM)

The Police

1983-08-02

The Spectrum

Montreal, Canada

TV SBD Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Synchronicity I

02. Synchronicity II

03. Walking In Your Footsteps

04. Message In A Bottle

05. Wrapped Around Your Finger

06. Tea In The Sahara

07. Spirits In The Material World

08. Hole In My Life

09. Every Breath You Take

10. Roxanne

11. Can't Stand Losing You > Reggatta De Blanc

12. King Of Pain

13. So Lonely  

The Police - 1983-08-02 - Montreal, Canada (FM) 

I saw The Police just once, in January 1982, at Madison Square Garden, but what a historic show it was. The Go Gos, who opened, had the number 1 album on the Billboard charts at the time. The Police, who headlined, had the #2 album on those charts! New Wave had arrived, commanding the charts and selling out "The World's Most Famous Arena." 

This post captures The Police about 18 momths later when they jus might have been the biggest rock act in the world. Two months earlier, on June 1, The Police released the album Synchronicity, which went to #1 on the Billboard charts, selling 8 million copies. The disc yielded 4 top 20 singles - Synchronicity II at #16, Wrapped Around Your Finger at #8, King of Pain at #3 and Every Breath You Take, which like the album, climbed all the way to #1. When the band toured in 1983/84 in support of Synchronicity, they found they could fill 50,000 seat stadiums such as Shea in New York, the same venue the Beatles had filled some 2 decades prior. As a result, perhaps the band felt they had no more mountains to climb, as soon after, they would disband, spurred on in part by Sting's decision to release a solo disc. This soundboard recording captures the band on their final tour until the 21st century, on August 2, 1983, 31 years ago today, in Montreal.