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"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" is a song by British rock group The Police from their fourth album ''Ghost in the Machine''. The song, notable for featuring a pianist (uncommon for most Police songs), dates back to a demo recorded in 1977. It was also a hit single that reached the top of the charts in the United Kingdom (topping its predecessor, "Invisible Sun") in November 1981〔(UK Singles Charts for the week of November 14, 1981 ), The Official Charts.〕 and hit number three on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart that same year.〔Whitburn, Joel (2004). ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits'', 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 497.〕 ==Background== Although recorded in 1981, Sting wrote the song as early as 1976.〔Lyrics by Sting, The Dial Press, 2007, page 56.〕 An early (1977) demo of the song can be heard on the Strontium 90 album ''Strontium 90: Police Academy''. A good ear will detect that the vocals are set back from the music on this track. This was either due to the mastering feel, or the overdub from the demo. The piano part was added by session keyboardist Jean Roussel, whom Sting invited to play on the track against the wishes of his bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland.〔Summers, Andy (2007). ''One Train Later'', 1st Edition (St. Martin's Griffin), page 294.〕 Summers did not approve of Roussel's inclusion in the track, claiming that he was "incredibly pushy" and that "there wasn't room for him. He must have played 12 piano parts on that song alone."〔 Copeland, however, said that Roussel "wasn't pushy ... He was just like us actually."〔 Feeling that the arrangement of the track was not enough like The Police style, Summers (who recalled, "as the guitar player I was saying, 'What the fuck is this? This is not the Police sound'") and Copeland attempted to change the track.〔 However, as Copeland remembers: In the chorus, Sting, not knowing any other word which would rhyme with "magic," used the word "tragic." Copeland said of this moment, "I remember Sting for years trying to think of a rhyme for 'magic', as in 'Every Little Things She Does Is Magic.' I think the only word he could come up with, apart from 'tragic', was 'pelagic', which means 'ocean going'. There I was in my leather pants and punk hairdo, pondering the distinction between ocean-going and river-going fish."〔 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 Little Thing She Does Is Magic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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