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"Every Breath You Take" is a song by English rock band The Police on the band's 1983 album ''Synchronicity''. Written by Sting, the single was the biggest hit of 1983, topping the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart for eight weeks (the band's only No. 1 hit on that chart), and the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. It also topped the ''Billboard'' Top Tracks chart for nine weeks. At the 26th Annual Grammy Awards the song was nominated for three Grammy Awards including Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Sting won Song of the Year while The Police won Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals; however, it did not win Record of the Year. Songwriter Sting received the 1983 British Academy's Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.〔Lister, David, ''Pop ballads bite back in lyrical fashion'', The Independent, 28 May 1994〕 The song ranked No. 84 on the ''Rolling Stone'' list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the highest position of any new wave rock song. It also ranked No. 25 on ''Billboard'' ==Origins and songwriting== Sting wrote the song in 1982 in the aftermath of his separation from Frances Tomelty and the beginning of his relationship with Trudy Styler. The split was controversial. As ''The Independent'' reported in 2006, "The problem was, he was already married – to actress Frances Tomelty, who just happened to be Trudie's best friend (Sting and Frances lived next door to Trudie in Bayswater, west London, for several years before the two of them became lovers). The affair was widely condemned." In order to escape from the public eye, Sting retreated in the Caribbean where he started writing the song.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/trudie-styler-the-truth-about-trudie-410523.html〕 The lyrics are the words of a possessive lover who is watching "every breath you take; every move you make". Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. He insists it's about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow. "One couple told me 'Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!' I thought, 'Well, good luck.'"〔American Top 40 broadcast with Casey Kasem.〕 When asked why he appears angry in the music video Sting told BBC Radio 2, "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Song Library: Every Breath You Take ) (Spoken in the second Sting audio clip.)〕 According to the ''Back to Mono'' box-set book, "Every Breath You Take" is influenced by a Gene Pitney song titled "Every Breath I Take". The song's structure is a variation on the Classical rondo form with its AABACABA structure, a form rarely found in modern popular music. The demo of the song was recorded in an eight track suite in North London's Utopia studios and featured Sting singing over a Hammond organ.〔 A few months later he presented the song to the other band members when they reconvened at George Martin's AIR Studios in Montserrat to work on the Synchronicity album. While recording, Summers came up with a guitar part inspired by Béla Bartók that would later become a trademark lick, and played it straight through in one take. He was asked to put guitar onto a simple backing track of bass, drums, and a single vocal, with Sting offering no directive beyond "make it your own."〔Summers, Andy (2006). ''One Train Later: A Memoir'', Thomas Dunne Books, pp. 323–324.〕 Summers remembers: The recording process was fraught with difficulties as personal tensions between the band members, particularly Sting and Stewart Copeland, came to the fore.〔 Producer Hugh Padgham claimed that by the time of the recording sessions, Sting and Copeland "hated each other", with verbal and physical fights in the studio common.〔 The tensions almost led to the recording sessions being cancelled until a meeting involving the band and the group's manager, Miles Copeland (Stewart's brother), resulted in an agreement to continue.〔 Keyboard parts were added from Roland guitar synthesisers, a Prophet-5 and an Oberheim synthesiser.〔 The single-note piano in the middle eight was recommended by Padgham, inspired by similar work that he had done with the group XTC.〔 The drum track was largely created through separate overdubs of each percussive instrument, with the main backbeat created by simultaneously playing a snare and a gong drum.〔 According to Stewart Copeland: 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「Every Breath You Take」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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