Walking on the Moon
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| "Walking on the Moon" | ||
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| Single by The Police | ||
| from the album Reggatta de Blanc | ||
| Released | 1979 | |
| Format | vinyl record (7") | |
| Recorded | 1979 | |
| Genre | New Wave | |
| Length | 5:03 | |
| Label | A&M Records | |
| Writer(s) | Sting | |
| Producer(s) | Stewart Copeland, Sting, Andy Summers |
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| The Police singles chronology | ||
| "Message in a Bottle" (1979) |
"Walking on the Moon" (1979) |
"So Lonely" (1980) |
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| French 7-inch single cover | ||
"Walking on the Moon" is a 1979 song by The Police, from their second album, Regatta de Blanc. The song was The Police's second number one hit single in the United Kingdom after "Message in a Bottle", but didn't chart in the United States. According to Sting the song is about the feeling of being in love.
Sting said that he wrote the song when he was drunk (L'Historia Bandido, 1981):
| “ | I was drunk in a hotel room in Munich, slumped on the bed with the whirling pit when this riff came into my head. I got up and starting walking round the room singing : "Walking round the room, walking round the room". That was all. In the cool light of morning I remembered what had happened and I wrote the riff down. But "Walking round the room" was a stupid title so I thought of something even more stupid which was "Walking on the moon." | ” |
In his autobiography Broken Music (2003), Sting alludes that the song was partially inspired by an early girlfriend:
| “ | Deborah Anderson was my first real girlfriend...walking back from Deborah's house in those early days would eventually become a song, for being in love is to be relieved of gravity. | ” |
Musician Jimmy Nail (also from Sting's hometown of Newcastle upon Tyne) released a cover single of Walking on the Moon in 2001.
| Preceded by "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman" by Dr Hook |
UK number one single December 8, 1979 |
Succeeded by "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd |
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