Synchronicity (SuperDeluxe Vinyl Expanded Edition) (Import)

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 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.

• Disc 1 – The Original Album
• The original 10-track LP track-listing
• Disc 2 – B-Sides / Bonus Tracks
• 12-track collection of contemporaneous B-sides and singles bonus tracks.
• Disc 3 – Unreleased (Part 1)
• 10 previously unreleased alternate takes, out-takes, and instrumentals
• Disc 4 – Unreleased (Part 2)
• 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