Product Description
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. The album went on to include 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 copies. 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.
First comprehensive archival album project for The Police and has been compiled with full band co-operation. Expanded multi-format reissues featuring unreleased bonus material, new liner notes and interviews, rare archive memorabilia & unseen photographs. The flagship 6xCD Super-Deluxe-Edition includes 55 previously unreleased tracks. All tracks are remastered directly from the original source tapes and the audio has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios, London.
- 4LP Version - Disc 1 – The Original Album, Disc 2 – B-Sides / Bonus Tracks, Disc 3 – Unreleased (Part 1), Disc 4 – Unreleased (Part 2) Pressed on 140 black vinyl, plus 64-page, lavish colour book, featuring unseen material, new liner notes & interviews and archive memorabilia & photos. Printed inner sleeves, Four art print photographs, all housed in a hardback slipcase
- 1LP 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 the picture disc
