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Every Breath You Take

1983 · via The Police

The Police’s 1983 recording of “Every Breath You Take” is the earliest release on file. Sting of The Police is credited as its writer. Also recorded by Sting (released 1991), Gloria Gaynor (released 1986) and Melanie (released 1996), among 384 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. It is on the album Synchronicity (1983).

The Police – Every Breath You Take
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Everybody knows Sting wrote this one for The Police, but fewer people know Bruce Springsteen recorded it too. Put the two side by side and the song starts to sound like it belongs to whoever is singing it.

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Credited writer: Sting.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1983.

On the album Synchronicity (1983).

Other recordings on file · first release year

384 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Sting wrote "Every Breath You Take" for The Police. Which of these artists later took the song on and recorded it himself?Bruce Springsteen
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