There I was in my leather pants and punk hairdo, pondering the distinction between ocean-going and river-going fish." Release and reception In the chorus, Sting, not knowing any other word which would rhyme with "magic," used the word "tragic." Copeland said of this moment, "I remember Sting for years trying to think of a rhyme for 'magic', as in 'Every Little Things She Does Is Magic.' I think the only word he could come up with, apart from 'tragic', was 'pelagic', which means 'ocean going'. We just faced the music, bit the bullet, and used Sting's arrangements and demo. Then Andy did the same thing on the guitar. I did just one take, and that became the record. "I remember saying, 'Okay put up Sting's original demo and I'll show you how crummy it is.' So Sting stood over me and waved me through all the changes.
He was just like us actually." įeeling that the arrangement of the track was not enough like The Police style, Summers (who recalled, "as the guitar player I was saying, 'What the fuck is this? This is not the Police sound'") and Copeland attempted to change the track. He must have played 12 piano parts on that song alone." Copeland, however, said that Roussel "wasn't pushy. Summers did not approve of Roussel's inclusion in the track, claiming that he was "incredibly pushy" and that "there wasn't room for him. The piano part was added by session keyboardist Jean Roussel, whom Sting invited to play on the track against the wishes of his bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland. Sting, The Independent, September 1993 After a degree of hair-pulling and torturing on my part, I got the band to play over the top of my demo. I was saying, "But listen, it's a hit." We tried to do it from scratch as the Police, but it didn't have the same energy as the demo. I took it to the band, who were reticent, still thinking it was soft. I had written the song long before the Police were successful, but it seemed a bit soft for the band at first. This was first recorded as a demo, with the piano figure, in a studio in Montreal. This was either due to the mastering feel, or the overdub from the demo. A good ear will detect that the vocals are set back from the music on this track.
An early (1977) demo of the song can be heard on the Strontium 90 album Strontium 90: Police Academy. Although recorded in 1981, Sting wrote the song as early as 1976.
0 kommentar(er)
