The Police - 1983-10-01 - Barcelona, Spain (SBD)

The Police

1983-10-01

Narcis Sala

Barcelona, Spain

Soundboard Recording

256 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Voices Inside My Head > Synchronicity I

02. Synchronicity II

03. Walking In Your Footsteps

04. Message In A Bottle

05. Walking On The Moon

06. Oh My God

07. De Do Do Do,De Da Da Da

08. Wrapped Around Your Finger

09. Tea In The Sahara

10. Invisible Sun

11. One World (Not Three)

12. King Of Pain

13. Don't Stand So Close To Me

14. Every Breath You Take

15. Murder By Numbers

16. Roxanne

17. Happy Birthday Sting

18. I Can't Stand Losing You

19. So Lonely (missing)

The Police - 1983-10-01 - Barcelona, Spain (SBD)

SPAIN - The Police’s 1981 Ghost in the Machine album tour put them on the map as rock super stars. Their tour in support of that disc made them the first new wave/punk band to graduate from playing clubs to headlining at 20,000 seat arenas such as Madison Square Garden on New York, where I saw them January 22, 1982. The follow up album, Synchronicity, released in June 1983, was another blockbuster, going to number 1 on the US and UK charts, and winning the band a Grammy Award for best rock performance by a duo or group. The album spawned 4 top 20 singles: Synchronicity II at #16, Wrapped Around Your Finger at #8, King of Pain at #3 and Every Breathe You Take, which went to the #1 spot and stayed there for 8 weeks. Despite all that success (or maybe because of it?), the band was beginning to come apart. The album was recorded with each member of the band in a separate room, ostensibly for engineering reasons, but in hindsight it is apparent that the arrangement symbolized that the band was no longer a cohesive unit. Moreover, during the recording of Every Breath You Take, Sting and Andy Summers came to blows in the studio. When the band went on the road in July 1983 in support of the album, no one knew that it would be the final world tour for the band (with the exception of 3 shows in 1986) until 2007! This soundboard recording captures the band 3 dozen years ago today on October 1, 1983 – a day before Sting’s birthday – in Barcelona, Spain.