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"Don't Stand So Close to Me" is a 1980 song and hit single by the British rock band The Police. It concerns a schoolgirl's crush on her young teacher which leads to an affair, which in turn is discovered. The Police won the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for this song. In 1986, a re-recorded version of the song was released as "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86". ==Background== The music and lyrics of the song were written by the lead singer of The Police, Sting. The song deals with the mixed feelings of lust, fear and guilt that a female student has for a school teacher and vice versa, and inappropriateness leading to confrontation which is unravelled later on in the song. The line "Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov" alludes to Vladimir Nabokov's novel, ''Lolita'', which covers somewhat similar issues. After being criticised for rhyming "cough" with "Nabokov," Sting replied, "I've used that terrible, terrible rhyme technique a few times. Technically, it's called a feminine rhyme – where it's so appalling it's almost humorous. You don't normally get those type of rhymes in pop music and I'm glad!"〔 Before joining The Police, Sting had previously worked as an English teacher. Sting said of the song in 1981: In 1993, however, he said of the song's inspiration, "You have to remember we were blond bombshells at the time and most of our fans were young girls so I started role playing a bit. Let's exploit that."〔 in a 2001 interview for the concert DVD ''...All This Time'', Sting denied that the song is autobiographical. "Don't Stand So Close to Me" appeared on The Police's album ''Zenyatta Mondatta'' (A&M), and became a hit No. 1 UK single〔(The Police in the UK Charts ), The Official Charts.〕 along with a corresponding music video. In the US, it reached the top 10 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 10. In the UK, the track was confirmed by the end of 1980 to have been the biggest selling single of that year. The B-side, "Friends", was written by Andy Summers and is inspired by ''Stranger in a Strange Land'', a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sting.com/discography/index/ablum/albumId/148/tagName/Singles+(The+Police) )〕 Summers described the track as "Very quirky. A touch of Long John Silver on Acid."〔 Sting was asked to perform on Mark Knopfler's "Money for Nothing" as he was in Montserrat at the time, and reused a melody from "Don't Stand So Close to Me" in the counterpoint lyric "I want my MTV." It was only after this story was related to reporters during promotions for the ''Brothers in Arms'' album that lawyers for Sting became involved, and later copies of the album co-credit the song to Sting. The initial pressings list only Mark Knopfler. It is one of only two shared songwriting credits on any Dire Straits album. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don't Stand So Close to Me」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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