Reggatta de Blanc

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Reggatta de Blanc
The Police's studio album

Publication
(s)

5th October 1979

admission

February-August 1979

Label (s) A&M Records

Genre (s)

New wave , post-punk , reggae rock, pop rock

Title (number)

11

running time

41:52

occupation
  • Stewart Copeland - drums, lead vocals on On Any Other Day and in the first verse of Does Everyone Stare , guitar in the verses and chorus of It's Alright For You

production

The Police, Nigel Gray

Studio (s)

Surrey Sound Studios

chronology
Outlandos d'Amour
(1978) 		Reggatta de Blanc Zenyattà Mondatta
(1980)
Single releases
September 21, 1979 Message in a bottle
4th November 1979 Walking on the moon
November 22, 1979 (US only) Bring on the night
June 8, 1980 The Bed's Too Big Without You

Reggatta de Blanc is The Police's second studio album . It was released by A&M Records in October 1979 . The album reached number one on the charts in Great Britain and Australia, and number 25 in the USA . In 1980, the band won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the title track . Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album at number 369 of its 500 best albums of all time.

Emergence

Unlike the following album, The Police were able to start recording without any time pressure. The album was created in a total of four weeks of recording time, which were, however, spread over several months.

"We just went into the studio and said," OK, who's got the first song? " We hadn't even rehearsed them before we went. "

- Stewart Copeland

The band went on to record on a comparatively small budget - although the record company A&M Records would have approved larger ones - which was covered by their profits from the sales of Outlandos d'Amour . This kept her comparatively independent.

The album title is a play on words about white reggae .

reception

Greg Prato of the Allmusic.com website wrote that constant touring brought the band's reggae rock to perfection. The album is more polished in terms of production and more sophisticated in terms of songwriting than its predecessor. In addition, two hit singles were included. It awarded three out of five stars.

Track list

  1. Message in a Bottle ( Sting ) - 4:51
  2. Reggatta de Blanc ( Summers , Sting , Copeland ) - 3:06
  3. It's Alright For You ( Sting , Copeland ) - 3:13
  4. Bring on the Night ( Sting ) - 4:16
  5. Deathwish ( Summers , Sting , Copeland ) - 4:13
  6. Walking on the Moon ( Sting ) - 5:02
  7. On Any Other Day ( Copeland ) - 2:57
  8. The Bed's Too Big Without You ( Sting ) - 4:26
  9. Contact ( Copeland ) - 2:38
  10. Does Everyone Stare ( Copeland ) - 3:52
  11. No Time This Time ( Sting ) - 3:17

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Police in the UK Charts , The Official Charts.
  2. ↑ www.allmusic.com: Charts & Awards
  3. ^ Grammy Awards from The Police , Grammy.com.
  4. ^ Regatta de Blanc - The Police ( Memento of May 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Phil Sutcliffe: Outlandos at the Regatta , in: Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings , 1993, Booklet, pp. 32-35.
  6. ↑ Sounds Magazine, January 1980
  7. ^ Phil Sutcliffe, Hugh Fielder: L'Historia Bandido , London, New York: Proteus Books, 1981, ISBN 0-906071-66-6 , p. 77.
  8. ↑ a b www.allmusic.com: Reggatta de Blanc review by Greg Prato