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The Police: Sting's handwritten liner notes for the album 'Every Breath You Take: The Singles',
1986,
in pencil on fifteen sheets of headed stationery from the Hotel Principe Di Savoia, Milan, the first reading, It's 2 A.M. I'm in a hotel room in Milan. The phone rings, I must have been asleep for about 15 minutes. It would be better to wake up a grizzly bear. It's someone from the record company in Los Angeles - they need liner notes for the Police G H album and they need them by 10 A.M. tomorrow - otherwise the secretary will write them. O well here goes, with a sheet for each of the thirteen songs, including Roxanne, I suppose Roxanne is our flagship. A song, that despite Eddie Murphy's heroic rendition in 48 hours, people still associate with The Police. I don't think a band has ever played less on an arrangement. ''Less is more'' became our motto, although there were times when we forgot it; Message In A Bottle, In 1979 Dbm9 was rarely heard in hit records. This song put Dbm9 back on the map, and Every Breath You Take, Strange that in the year of George Orwell's prophetic novel, the most popular song in the world had the refrain ''I'll be watching you'', sung by the Police. Big Brother must have been laughing, together with related documents including a Telex addressed to G. Sumner Principe De Savoia with transcription of the liner notes, dated 22.8.86 and design notes for the album cover, sheets 21 x 30cm (8¼ x 11¾in)
in pencil on fifteen sheets of headed stationery from the Hotel Principe Di Savoia, Milan, the first reading, It's 2 A.M. I'm in a hotel room in Milan. The phone rings, I must have been asleep for about 15 minutes. It would be better to wake up a grizzly bear. It's someone from the record company in Los Angeles - they need liner notes for the Police G H album and they need them by 10 A.M. tomorrow - otherwise the secretary will write them. O well here goes, with a sheet for each of the thirteen songs, including Roxanne, I suppose Roxanne is our flagship. A song, that despite Eddie Murphy's heroic rendition in 48 hours, people still associate with The Police. I don't think a band has ever played less on an arrangement. ''Less is more'' became our motto, although there were times when we forgot it; Message In A Bottle, In 1979 Dbm9 was rarely heard in hit records. This song put Dbm9 back on the map, and Every Breath You Take, Strange that in the year of George Orwell's prophetic novel, the most popular song in the world had the refrain ''I'll be watching you'', sung by the Police. Big Brother must have been laughing, together with related documents including a Telex addressed to G. Sumner Principe De Savoia with transcription of the liner notes, dated 22.8.86 and design notes for the album cover, sheets 21 x 30cm (8¼ x 11¾in)