Every Breath You Take

The keyboards used are Roland guitar synthesizers, a Prophet-5 and an Oberheim synthesiser. Summers has said that his guitar line was inspired by Béla Bartók. Tensions within the band, especially between Sting and Copeland, were reportedly so bad that the recording sessions for the album were nearly cancelled. Sting has expressed alarm at how many people have taken this song to be a straightforward love song instead of a portrait of a possessive, obsessed stalker. In 2019, BMI named the song as the most-played radio song of all time.