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First comprehensive archival album project for The Police. Expanded multi-format reissues featuring unreleased bonus material, new liner notes and interviews, rare archive memorabilia & unseen photographs. All tracks are remastered directly from the original source tapes. Audio remastered at Abbey Road Studios. The flagship 6xCD Super-Deluxe-Edition includes 55 previously unreleased tracks compiled with full band co-operation.
The fifth and final studio album by the Police, Synchronicity was released in June 1983, and was the band’s most successful release and made the Police global superstars. Generating four classic hit singles. – Every Breath You Take, King of Pain, Wrapped Around Your Finger, and Synchronicity II, the album sold over 8 million copies in the USA (8 x platinum), 300,000 in the UK (1 x platinum). Total worldwide sales by the end of 1983 were over 20 million. Synchronicity spent 17 weeks at number 1 in the USA and Every Breath You Take was number one single for 8 weeks. Synchronicity spent 2 weeks at number 1 and Every Breath You Take spent 4 weeks at number 1 in the UK. The album’s title and much of the material for the songs were inspired by Arthur Koestler’s The Roots of Coincidence. At the 1984 Grammy Awards the album was nominated for a total of five awards including Album of the Year.
Product Descriptions
6CD
Disc 1 – The Original Album
The original 11-track CD track-listing
Disc 2 – B-Sides / Bonus Tracks
Comprehensive collection of all the relevant contemporaneous B-sides and singles bonus tracks.
Disc 3 – Unreleased (Part 1)
17 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes, instrumentals and demo recordings
Disc 4 – Unreleased (Part 2)
A further 19 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes, instrumentals and demo recordings
Disc 5 – Live (Part 1) / Disc 6 – Live (Part 2)
Features the 19-track live concert recording from the Oakland Coliseum, California, in September 1983
The set also features:
A 64-page, lavish hardback colour book, featuring:
New liner notes & interviews
Unseen visual material / archive memorabilia
Rare & unseen photos.
Printed inner wallets
Four art print photographs
Housed in a hardback slipcase
4LP
Disc 1 – The Original Album
The original 10-track LP track-listing
Disc 2 – B-Sides / Bonus Tracks
12-track collection of contemporaneous B-sides and singles bonus tracks.
Disc 3 – Unreleased (Part 1)
10 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes, and instrumentals
Disc 4 – Unreleased (Part 2)
A further 11 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes and instrumentals
140 black vinyl
64-page, lavish colour book, featuring unseen material / new liner notes & interviews / archive memorabilia & photos.
Printed inner sleeves
Four art print photographs
Housed in a hardback slipcase
2CD
Remastered and expanded double CD edition
Original album + 2nd disc featuring highlights from B-sides & bonus tracks
3-panel ‘digi-pak’
28-page booklet
1LP (Picture Disc)
1 LP remaster – ‘Alternate Order’ LP Picture Disc
Featuring the original A&M sequence, with same 10 tracks, different running order, compared to the final released version.
Bespoke artwork exclusive to picture disc
Limited edition
Product information
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