The Story Behind The Police’s "King of Pain": How Sting’s Wife Inspired the Title
Was this 1983 hit record, recorded by the #1 band of the time actually a solo album in disguise? Synchronicity by the Police with Sting taking center stage: the #1 album was composed almost singlehandedly by this frontman, the 1983 record featured four hit songs, including the massive #1 hit Every Breath You Take. But as good as that one is, it may not be the album’s defining track. Rather, I’d say its commercial runner-up King Of Pain is even more representative of how Sting was feeling at the time. Suffering from a broken marriage. His band breaking up. It’s all in there…King of Pain also…
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