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:
Disc 1 – The Original Album – Remastered The original 10-track LP 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
10. Tea In The Sahara
Disc 2 – B-Sides / Bonus Tracks 12-track collection of contemporaneous B-sides and singles bonus tracks.
1. Murder By Numbers
2. Truth Hits Everybody (Remix)
3. Man In A Suitcase (Live At The Variety Theatre, Los Angeles, USA / 16th January 1981)
4. Someone To Talk To
5. Message In A Bottle (Live At The Gusman Cultural Center, Miami, USA / 26th October 1979)
6. I Burn For You
7. Once Upon A Daydream
8. Tea In The Sahara (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983)
9. Every Breath You Take (Backing Track)
10. Roxanne (Backing Track)
11. Wrapped Around Your Finger (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983)
12. Every Bomb You Make
Disc 3 – Unreleased – Part 1 10 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes and instrumentals.
1. Synchronicity I (Alternate Mix)
2. Synchronicity I (Instrumental)
3. Walking In Your Footsteps (Alternate Mix)
4. O My God (Alternate Mix)
5. Mother (Instrumental)
6. Miss Gradenko (Alternate Mix)
7. Synchronicity II (Outtake)
8. Synchronicity II (Extended Version)
9. Synchronicity II (Instrumental)
10. Every Breath You Take (Alternate Mix)
Disc 4 – Unreleased – Part 2 A further 11 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes and instrumentals.
1. King Of Pain (Alternate Version)
2. King Of Pain (Alternate Mix)
3. Wrapped Around Your Finger (Alternate Mix)
4. Wrapped Around Your Finger (Instrumental)
5. Tea In The Sahara (Alternate Mix)
6. Loch
7. Ragged Man
8. Goodbye Tomorrow
9. Truth Hits Everybody (Remix) (Outtake)
10. Three Steps To Heaven
11. Rock And Roll Music