Outlandos d'Amour
Occupation
- Sting - vocals, background vocals, bass, harmonica on So Lonely
- Andy Summers - guitar; spoken text and piano with Sally
- Stewart Copeland - drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Joe Sinclair ( guest musician ) - Piano at Hole in My Life and Masoko Tanga
Outlandos d' Amour is the debut album by The Police. It was released in November 1978 by A & M Records. The album reached number six on the charts in the UK, the U.S. 23rd place in 1983 could enter at number 138 on the Billboard 200 again. The magazine Rolling Stone placed the album at number 434 of his 500 best albums of all time.
Formation
Outlandos d' Amour contained about with Roxanne, inspired by prostitutes who had seen Sting after a stay in a red light district in Paris, where the Police had given a concert in the vicinity of the hotel, as well as with So Lonely already some of the biggest hits of the band. The album was recorded with a budget of 1,500 British pounds, which the band by the brother of Stewart Copeland, Miles Copeland III had borrowed. The band was the Surrey Sound Studios, however, only be used if other bands recording their dates could not perceive there. The recordings ranged so over a period of six months. Miles Copeland was able to pay the full amount of the cost of a total of 2,000 pounds for the studio stay until much later.
Reception
Greg Prato wrote on the website Allmusic.com Outlandos d' Amour was by far the most direct album of the band. Sting was already a first-rate songwriter at that time. The plate was one of the best debut albums that had emerged from the punk / New Wave movement of the 1970s. He forgave four and a half stars out of five.