Don't Stand So Close To Me '86
| "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by The Police | ||||
| from the album Every Breath You Take: The Singles | ||||
| B-side | "Don't Stand So Close To Me" (Live) | |||
| Released | October 1986 (1986-10) | |||
| Format | 7" / CD single | |||
| Recorded | 1986 | |||
| Genre | Rock, pop, New Wave | |||
| Length | 4:40 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Writer(s) | Sting | |||
| Producer | Stewart Copeland, Sting, Andy Summers, Laurie Latham | |||
| The Police singles chronology | ||||
The song was re-recorded in 1986 in a new, brooding arrangement with a different chorus and a more opulent production. The new version appeared as "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" on the album Every Breath You Take: The Singles, and was released as a single, reaching number 24 in the British charts. It also reached number 11 in Ireland, number 14 in New Zealand, number 19 in Netherlands MegaCharts Singles Chart (number 20 on Dutch Top 40), number 27 in Canada and number 46 on Billboard Hot 100 (number 10 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks). This single was reportedly one of the first commercial CD singles ever produced. Likely because of the decrease in tempo, a slight lyric change is found in the line "Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov" (the word 'famous' was added). A new music video was produced for the reworked song by Godley and Creme, notable for its early use of animated computer graphics. Because drummer Stewart Copeland had broken his collarbone and was unable to play the drums, Copeland opted to use his Fairlight CMI to program the drum track for the single. While singer/bassist Sting pushed to utilize the drums on his Synclavier instead, the group's engineer found the Synclavier's programming interface difficult—and took him two days to complete the task. Copeland ultimately finished the drum programming very quickly and claimed that the Fairlight's then-legendary "Page R" (the device's sequencing page) saved his life and put him on the map as a composer. In a Qantas inflight radio program named "Reeling In The Years", Copeland was quoted as saying that the argument over Synclavier versus Fairlight drums was "the straw that broke the camel's back", and led to the group's unraveling. As The Police had already disbanded by the time the 1986 single was released, this was the last recording before the band's reunion and the most recent studio recording the band has released to the present day. Read more about this topic: Don't Stand So Close To Me Famous quotes containing the words stand and/or close:“Don’t just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.” “We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.” | ||||