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 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.
Tracklist:
CD 1 – The Original Album (Remastered)
The original 11-track CD tracklisting:
1. Synchronicity I
2. Walking In Your Footsteps
3. O My God
4. Mother
5. Miss Gradenko
6. Synchronicity II
7. Every Breath You Take
8. King Of Pain
9. Wrapped Around Your Finger [Remastered 2003]
10. Tea In The Sahara
11. Murder By Numbers
CD 2 – B-Sides / Bonus Tracks
Comprehensive collection of all the relevant contemporaneous B-sides and singles bonus tracks:
1. Truth Hits Everybody [Remix]
2. Man In A Suitcase [Live At The Variety Arts Theatre, Los Angeles, USA / 16th January 1981]
3. Someone To Talk To
4. Message In A Bottle [Live At The Gusman Cultural Center, Miami, USA / 26th October 1979]
5. I Burn For You
6. Once Upon A Daydream
7. Tea In The Sahara
8. Every Breath You Take [Backing Track]
9. Roxanne [Backing Track]
10. Wrapped Around Your Finger
11. Every Bomb You Make
12. Walking On The Moon [Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983]
13. Hole In My Life
14. One World (Not Three) [Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983]
15. Invisible Sun
16. Murder By Numbers
17. Walking In Your Footsteps [Derangement]
18. Tea In The Sahara [Derangement]
CD 3 – Unreleased (Part 1)
17 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes, instrumentals and demo recordings:
1. Synchronicity I (Demo)
2. Synchronicity I (Alternate Mix)
3. Synchronicity I (Instrumental)
4. Walking In Your Footsteps (Alternate Version)
5. Walking In Your Footsteps (Alternate Mix)
6. O My God (Demo)
7. O My God (Outtake)
8. O My God (OBX Version)
9. O My God (Alternate Mix)
10. Mother (Alternate Version)
11. Mother (Instrumental)
12. Miss Gradenko (Alternate Mix)
13. Synchronicity II (Demo)
14. Synchronicity II (Outtake)
15. Synchronicity II (Extended Version)
16. Synchronicity II (Alternate Mix)
17. Synchronicity II (Instrumental)
CD 4 – Unreleased (Part 2)
A further 19 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes, instrumentals and demo recordings:
1. Every Breath You Take (Demo)
2. Every Breath You Take (Outtake)
3. Every Breath You Take (Alternate Mix)
4. King Of Pain (Demo)
5. King Of Pain (Alternate Version)
6. King Of Pain (Alternate Mix)
7. Wrapped Around Your Finger (Demo)
8. Wrapped Around Your Finger (Alternate Mix)
9. Wrapped Around Your Finger (Instrumental)
10. Tea In The Sahara (Demo)
11. Tea In The Sahara (Alternate Mix)
12. Murder By Numbers (Demo)
13. I'm Blind (Demo)
14. Loch
15. Ragged Man
16. Goodbye Tomorrow
17. Truth Hits Everybody (Remix) (Outtake)
18. Three Steps To Heaven
19. Rock And Roll Music
CD 5 – Live Pt. 1 - Unreleased
1. Synchronicity I (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
2. Synchronicity II (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
3. Walking In Your Footsteps (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
4. Message In A Bottle (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
5. Walking On The Moon (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
6. O My God (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
7. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
8. Wrapped Around Your Finger (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
9. Tea In The Sahara (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
10. Spirits In the Material World (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
CD 6 – Live Pt. 2 - Unreleased
Features the 19-track live concert recording from the Oakland Coliseum, California in September 1983:
1. Hole In My Life (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
2. Invisible Sun (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
3. One World (Not Three) (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
4. King Of Pain (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
5. Don't Stand So Close To Me (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
6. Murder By Numbers (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
7. Every Breath You Take (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
8. Roxanne (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
9. Can't Stand Losing You (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)