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| 1 | Play track | Love this track | Demolition Man | 5:27 | 15,164 listeners | |||
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| 5 | Love this track | It's Probably Me - Live at Villa Manin, Cudriopo, Italy/1993 | 6:18 | 335 listeners | ||||
| 6 | Love this track | A Day In The Life - Live at hus Manin, Cudriopo, Italy/1993 | 4:06 | 432 listeners |
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‘Demolition Man’: The Story Behind The Police’s Explosive Song
The Police first recorded the driving, hard-edged “Demolition Man” for their fourth album, 1981’s Ghost In The Machine, yet the song was actually written by Sting before the release of the band’s third album, 1980’s Zenyatta Mondatta.
“Demolition Man” initially came together in rural Ireland, during the summer of that year, when Sting was living in Peter O’Toole’s house in Connemara. The renowned actor reputedly liked the lyrics, especially the lines “I’m a three-line whip/I’m the sort of thing they ban” – which referenced the British parliamentary term for an emergency vote – and his positive response encouraged Sting, who already felt the song had potential.
The Grace Jones version
However, rather than taking “Demolition Man” directly to The Police, Sting initially presented it to Grace Jones after she requested he write her a song. Jones and her team duly gave the track a striking machine-funk
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Demolition Man (song)
1981 song by the Police
This article is about the Grace Jones/Police song. For the Def Leppard song, see Euphoria (Def Leppard album).
"Demolition Man" is a song written by Sting and performed by Grace Jones as the A-side of a 1981 single. Sting's band, the Police, later released their rendition of the song on their album Ghost in the Machine.
Background
[edit]The song was written by Sting in the Summer of 1980 while he was living in Peter O’Toole’s home in Connemara, Ireland. It was written for potential use on The Police’s Zenyatta Mondatta, but they never got around to recording it.[2][3] A demo was sent to Grace Jones when she requested a song from Sting.[3]
The lyric "I'm a three-line whip" is an allusion to the instructions issued to members of British parliament to cast their votes according to the party line. Sting explained in an interview, "Whatever party's in power in Parliament, if it's a really impor