The Police’s Sting & Andy Summers Reunite On Christian McBride’s “Murder By Numbers” Cover

The Police’s “Murder By Numbers” is a song with a checkered history. Before it became the vaguely jazz and reggae-inflected song that we know so well, Sting and Andy Summers recorded a demo as an upbeat, drum machine-driven new wave track, and that demo just saw release on the deluxe Synchronicity 40th-anniversary box set last fall. The track wasn’t originally available on the vinyl version of Synchronicity, just the CD and cassette copies. It was also the B-side of the group’s wild...

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