Due for reissue 26th July 2024 via UMR / Polydor
2CD / LTD 6CD / LTD 4LP / Ltd Picture Disc LP
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• First comprehensive archival album project for The Police
• Expanded multi-format reissues featuring unreleased bonus material, new liner notes and interviews, rare archive memorabilia & unseen photographs.
• All tracks are remastered directly from the original source tapes
• Audio remastered at Abbey Road Studios
• The flagship 6xCD Super-Deluxe-Edition includes 55 previously unreleased tracks
• Compiled with full band co-operation
• The fifth and final studio album by the Police, Synchronicity was released in June 1983, and was the band’s most successful release and made the Police global superstars
• Generating four classic hit singles. – Every Breath You Take, King of Pain, Wrapped Around Your Finger, and Synchronicity II
• The album sold over 8 million copies in the USA (8 x platinum), 300,000 in the UK (1 x platinum). Total worldwide sales by the end of 1983 were over 20 million.
• Synchronicity spent 17 weeks at number 1 in the USA and Every Breath You Take was number one single for 8 weeks. Synchronicity spent 2 weeks at number 1 and Every Breath You Take spent 4 weeks at number 1 in the UK.
• The album’s title and much of the material for the songs were inspired by Arthur Koestler’s The Roots of Coincidence. At the 1984 Grammy Awards the album was nominated for a total of five awards including Album of the Year.
6CD
The Original Album
B-Sides / Bonus Tracks
17 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes, instrumentals and demo recordings
A further 19 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes, instrumentals and demo recordings
19-track live concert recording from the Oakland Coliseum, California, in September 1983
The set also features:
• A 64-page, lavish hardback colour book, featuring:
• New liner notes & interviews
• Unseen visual material / archive memorabilia
• Rare & unseen photos.
• Printed inner wallets
• Four art print photographs
• Housed in a hardback slipcase
4LP
The original 10-track LP track-listing
12-track collection of contemporaneous B-sides and singles bonus tracks.
10 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes, and instrumentals
A further 11 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes and instrumentals
• 140 black vinyl
• 64-page, lavish colour book, featuring unseen material / new liner notes & interviews / archive memorabilia & photos.
• Printed inner sleeves
• Four art print photographs
• Housed in a hardback slipcase
2CD
• Remastered and expanded double CD edition
• Original album + 2nd disc featuring highlights from B-sides & bonus tracks
• 3-panel ‘digi-pak’
• 28-page booklet
1LP (Picture Disc)
• 1 LP remaster – ‘Alternate Order’ LP Picture Disc
• Featuring the original A&M sequence, with same 10 tracks, different running order, compared to the final released version.
• Bespoke artwork exclusive to picture disc
• Limited edition