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The Police

Group · GB

Lineage

Sound FamilyRock

Sound Signature

new waverockpop rockpost-punkreggae rockpunkindie rockpop/rock

Sound Profile

Origins

Geography	GB
Sound Family	Rock

Connections

Top Collaborators

Sting292 Andy Summers177 Stewart Copeland171 Nigel Gray157 Hugh Padgham104 Chris Gray33 Tim Summerhayes29 David Tickle27

Sampled From

Roxanne, Roxanne

UTFO

Kool’s Back Again

Gene Redd

Kool’s Back Again

Kool & the Gang

Kools Back Again

Kool & the Gang

Sampled By

Steelo (radio edit)

702

Steelo (radio edit)

Chad Elliott

Steelo (radio edit)

George Pearson

sHadoWs iN tHe raIn 85-11

Top Jimmy Page

InvISibLe sUn 81-11

Top Jimmy Page

What Means the World to You

Cam’ron

Release Timeline

AlbumEPSingleBar height = release weight

Discography

The Bed’s Too Big Without You

1980

So Lonely

1978

When the World Is Running Down (You Can’t Go Wrong)

2000

Reggatta de Blanc

1979

Outlandos d’Amour

1978

Roxanne ’97

1997

King of Pain (demo)

2024

King of Pain

1984

Don’t Stand So Close to Me ’86

1986

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

1980

Four Big Hits, Vol. 2

1983

Spirits in the Material World

1981

Walking on the Moon

1979

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

1981

Don’t Stand So Close to Me / King of Pain

1996

Every Breath You Take

1983

Zenyattà Mondatta

1980

Bring On the Night

1979

Don’t Stand So Close to Me

1980

Ghost in the Machine

1981

Can’t Stand Losing You

1978

Message in a Bottle

1979

Roxanne

1978

Don’t Stand So Close to Me ’86

1986

Every Breath You Take (backing track) / Roxanne (backing track)

1983

Walking on the Moon

1997

Synchronicity II

1983

I Burn for You / Only You

1982

Fall Out / Nothing Achieving

1977

Wrapped Around Your Finger

1983

Synchronicity

1983

Invisible Sun

1981