Live! (The Police album)

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Live!
Live! cover
Live album by The Police
Released June 1995
Recorded November 27, 1979 & November 1983
Genre New Wave
Length 2:23:54
Label A&M
Producer Andy Summers
Professional reviews
The Police chronology
Every Breath You Take: The Classics
(1995)
Live!
(1995)
The Very Best of Sting & The Police
(1997, 2002)

Live! was an album by The Police, released in 1995. Disc one was recorded on November 27 in 1979 at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. Disc two contains excerpts from two concerts in November 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia at The Omni in the wake of the Synchronicity album. The 1983 shows were also featured in the 2005 Synchronicity Concert DVD release.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Sting except when noted.

[edit] Disc 1

  1. "Next to You" – 2:57
  2. "So Lonely" – 7:32
  3. "Truth Hits Everybody" – 2:34
  4. "Walking on the Moon" – 4:59
  5. "Hole in My Life" – 4:08
  6. "Fall Out" (Stewart Copeland) – 2:46
  7. "Bring on the Night" – 5:16
  8. "Message in a Bottle" – 4:27
  9. "The Bed's Too Big Without You" – 8:53
  10. "Peanuts" (Sting, Copeland) – 3:07
  11. "Roxanne" – 4:42
  12. "Can't Stand Losing You" – 7:54
  13. "Landlord" (Sting, Copeland) – 2:27
  14. "Born in the 50's" – 4:18
  15. "Be My Girl - Sally" (Andy Summers, Sting) – 4:51

[edit] Disc 2

  1. "Synchronicity I" – 2:52
  2. "Synchronicity II" – 4:44
  3. "Walking in Your Footsteps" – 4:54
  4. "Message in a Bottle" – 4:35
  5. "O My God" – 3:36
  6. "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" – 4:32
  7. "Wrapped Around Your Finger" – 5:21
  8. "Tea in the Sahara" – 4:52
  9. "Spirits in the Material World" – 2:57
  10. "King of Pain" – 5:53
  11. "Don't Stand So Close to Me" – 3:46
  12. "Every Breath You Take" – 4:37
  13. "Roxanne" – 6:10
  14. "Can't Stand Losing You" – 6:48
  15. "So Lonely" – 7:26

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Additional personnel (disc 2 only)

  • Michelle Cobb - background vocals
  • Dollette McDonald - background vocals
  • Tessa Niles - background vocals

[edit] Production

  • Producer: Andy Summers
  • Executive producers: The Police and Miles Copeland
  • Engineers: Wolfgang Amadeus and Eddie King
  • Assistant engineer: Jun Murakawa
  • Photography: Lynn Goldsmith and Jill Furmanosky
  • Art direction and design: Norman Moore