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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
In August 1983, The Police just 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, 34 years ago today, in Montreal.
3 comments:
I remember them kicking-off that tour in the old Comiskey Park not too long before this date.
Pretty confident tour-opener!
Thanks for this, speedy! Love this tour!
Speedy,
Thanks for this great show! I remember not being able to go to the Shea Stadium show & being so bummed out! At least I saw them in Hartford in 2007 & they were amazing! Keep up the great work my friend!
All the best,
Steve
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