Synchronicity

4 LP set. • 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.