Zenyatta Mondatta

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It was all pretty fraught, actually. By the time we got to Zenyatta, we were working twenty-four/seven. Then we were shipped off to this place to make the record, and we really didn’t know what we were going to do, unless, of course, Sting had some songs up his sleeve. There was definitely outside pressure to make an enormously successful album, but that didn’t bother us much. To be fair, A&M Records did see potential before The Police were set to record their second album, 1979’s Reggatta de Blanc. But they approached this opportunity by doing what record companies tended to do at the time, which was try to compel the musicians to record in a large, expensive studio with a big-name producer. The Police were having none of that.

The album is the last of the Police's early era, influenced by reggae and punk and featuring few musical elements on top of the core guitar, bass, and drums. Ahmad, Suzail (23 February 2022). "JoJo: Why Are Stand Names Changed in the Localization?". Game Rant . Retrieved 13 November 2022. Zenyatta Mondatta debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and stayed atop the chart for four weeks. [12] The album also charted at number one in Australia. [13] In the United States, it spent almost three years on the Billboard 200 chart and peaked at number five. [14] The album produced two singles, " Don't Stand So Close to Me" and " De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da". On the UK Singles Chart, the former became the band's third number one, while the latter reached number five. [12] The two singles also became the band's first top ten hits on the US Billboard Hot 100, with both peaking at number ten on the chart. [15] [16]

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As American fans continued to catch up with the band’s catalog to that point, the Police’s first two albums would go on to their own, eventual, sales recognition. Outlandos D’Amour won platinum certification in the summer of 1984, more than five years after its chart debut. Outlandos D’Amour had to wait much longer, charting for the first time also in 1979 and turning platinum early in 2002. Stewart Copeland said that the group arrived at the album's title after deciding it should roll off the tongue. Zenyatta and Mondatta are invented words, hinting at Zen, at Jomo Kenyatta, at the French for 'the world' ( le monde), and at reggatta, from the title of the previous Police album, Reggatta de Blanc. As Copeland explained: Dutchcharts.nl – The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 November 2020. On October 3, 1980, The Police delivered an album that Rolling Stone described as “near-perfect pop by a band that bends all the rules and sometimes makes musical mountains out of molehill-size ideas.” It was their third LP, Zenyatta Mondatta.

Zenyatta Mondatta was a worldwide hit, landing near the top of nearly a dozen national charts. More importantly, it launched The Police into the furious second half of their career which saw even more success in the near future. Top 100 Albums". RPM. Vol.34, no.6. 20 December 1980. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 2 May 2010. The vinyl replica mini-LP CDs have the usual high quality presentation complete with OBI strips (replicating original design), inner sleeve recreation, and booklet with Japanese notes and normally English lyrics. A second OBI-type strip actually wraps around the entire rear of the outer box and enthuses (in Japanese) about the benefits of SHM/SACD/DSD. Outer box contains lavish mini-LP CD Zenyatta Mondatta (liner notes). The Police. A&M Records. 1980. SP-4831. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) But you were also a band that produced a lot of hit songs. Did any commercial pop strategies enter into the making of Police records?It was all very dodgy, and it didn’t really work. We weren’t real punks, as it were, we were kind of fake. We could play fast and furious, but, yeah, we were suspect. We were sort of too good to be included in the scene.

A Distinct North American Market Cuts Its Own Gooves" (PDF). Billboard. 24 January 1981. p.C-5 . Retrieved 10 May 2021– via World Radio History. Firstly, Summers, Sting and Copeland had to get out of town. The comfort of recording once again at Surrey Sound, their home base for Outlandos d’Amour and Reggatta de Blanc, was denied because they could not work at a studio in England for tax reasons. Instead they became tax exiles at Wisseloord Studios in the Netherlands.The following performance dates are either disputed or of unknown date due to insufficient evidence.