THE CLASS OF '79 (Part 38)

Having become highly popular in the first half of 1979 with an album and singles originally released back in 1978, there was a huge amount of interest in the new material that was going to be released by The Police.In September 1979 they unleashed a single which somehow straddled new wave and MOR rock and in doing so turned the band into a global product for mass consumption. In other words, this is the single that re-invented stadium rock just as those who had fought in the punk wars had thoug...

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