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Album overview

The cover art for Ghost in the Machine features an LED-inspired graphic that depicts the heads of the three band members each with a distinctive hair style (from left to right, Andy Summers, Sting with spiky hair, and Stewart Copeland with a fringe); the band was unable to decide on a photograph to use for the cover. The album's cover is ranked at number 45 on VH1's 50 Greatest Album Covers. External links LEd Category: TeX ... Andy Summers (born Andrew James Somers 31 December 1942) is an English guitarist and composer best known for his work in The Police. ... Sting in Budapest, 2000 Gordon Matthew Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951), usually known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. ... Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police and is an influential drum stylist. ... Bangs Bangs or fringe in hairstyling is the front part of the hair cut to hang or curl over a persons forehead. ...

The album was the first Police record to feature heavy use of keyboards and saxophones. "Spirits in the Material World" used a synthesizer to mask the song's reggae influence, and the middle twenty minutes of the record ("Hungry for You (J'aurais Toujours Faim de Toi)" through "One World (Not Three)") has a great deal of saxophone harmonies. Interestingly enough, the opening to "Secret Journey" is a guitar layered with effects pedals. As Andy Summers recollects: Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored musical instrument usually considered a member of the woodwind family. ... Synth redirects here. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Effects unit. ...

The LP opens with "Spirits in the Material World," a dark pop song with keyboards dubbed over Summers' original guitar line. Following that is "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", which features piano and a strong Caribbean vibe. "Invisible Sun" refers to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. "Hungry For You (J'Aurais Toujours Faim de Toi)" is sung mostly in French. "Demolition Man," the band's longest song, almost six minutes in length, features a strong bass line and saxophone, and was written by Sting while staying at Peter O'Toole's Irish mansion. Grace Jones and Sting have both recorded solo versions of the song. Manfred Mann's Earth Band also recorded a version of the song — rearranged and with extensive use of synthesizers — in 1982 for their "Somewhere in Afrika" album. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic is a hit single by British rock group The Police. ... West Indies redirects here. ... For other uses, see Troubles (disambiguation) and Trouble. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: , Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a constituent country of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... Peter Seamus OToole (born August 2, 1932, uncertain but presumed correct date[1]) is an eight-time Academy Award-nominated Irish actor. ... Grace Jones (born May 19, 1948)[1] is a Jamaican–American model, singer and actress. ... Manfred Manns Earth Band are a rock group formed by Manfred Mann, in 1971, following the demise of Manns former group Manfred Mann. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Somewhere in Afrika is an album released in 1983 by Manfred Manns Earth Band. ...

"Too Much Information," "Rehumanize Yourself," and "One World (Not Three)" all concern various political themes. The final three songs return to the darker sound which opens the album: "Ωmegaman" features lyrics dealing with personal pressure, "Secret Journey" is a moody song about inner strength and enlightenment, and "Darkness," the album's Stewart Copeland-penned closer, is a dark and hostile ballad about the pressures of life. "Ωmegaman" was initially chosen to be the first single before the album but Sting was against the idea.

"Invisible Sun," released as a single instead, was a large success in the UK, making it to #2 even though the video was banned by the BBC for including footage referring to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Later, "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" made it to #3 in the U.S. and #1 in Britain, and "Spirits in the Material World" made it to the U.S. Top 20. Ban could be: ban, a decree that prohibits something, a form of censorship Ban, a king from Arthurian legend. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...

Arthur Koestler's reaction to the album is said to have been muted. He knew little about the burgeoning New Wave scene, and said in an interview with the Paris Review (compiled later on in Writers At Work vol. Seven): Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest – March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. ... New Wave was a music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early-to-mid 1980s. ... The Paris Review, which is actually based in New York, is a literary magazine started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003 by George Plimpton. ...

In his younger days, Sting was an avid reader of Koestler. Another of The Police's albums Synchronicity was also inspired by Koestler's The Roots of Coincidence, which mentions Carl Jung's theory of synchronicity. This article is about the rock band. ... Disambiguation: please visit Ghost in the Machine (disambiguation) for other uses of this term The Ghost in the Machine (1967) is a non-fiction work by Arthur Koestler. ... Sting in Budapest, 2000 Gordon Matthew Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951), usually known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. ... Synchronicity is the fifth album by The Police, released in 1983. ... The Roots of Coincidence, written by Arthur Koestler, is an accessible introduction to theories of parapsychology, including extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. ... Jung redirects here. ... Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally inexplicable to the person or persons experiencing them. ...

In 2000 Q magazine placed Ghost in the Machine at number 76 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 322 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Magazine Cover, November 2003. ...

Track listing

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1. "Spirits in the Material World" – 2:59
2. "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" – 4:22
3. "Invisible Sun" – 3:44
4. "Hungry for You (J'aurais Toujours Faim de Toi)" – 2:53
5. "Demolition Man" – 5:57
6. "Too Much Information" – 3:43
7. "Rehumanize Yourself" (Sting, Stewart Copeland) – 3:10
8. "One World (Not Three)" – 4:47
9. "Ωmegaman" (Andy Summers) – 2:48 ("Omegaman" on some editions)
10. "Secret Journey"– 3:34
11. "Darkness" (Copeland) – 3:14

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Personnel

The Police

• Sting - bass, keyboards, saxophone, lead vocals
• Stewart Copeland - drums, backing vocals
• Andy Summers - guitar, guitar synth, backing vocals

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Additional personnel

• Jean Roussel - keyboards on "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"

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Trivia

• "J' aurais toujours faim de toi" translates in French as "I would always be hungry of you". It is more likely that the band meant "J' aurai toujours faim pour vous" which translates as "I will always be hungry for you." There are a few other language mistakes in the song's lyrics.
• It is the first Police album with a title in English.
• The popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is known for named each episode after an 80s hit song, named its two-part fourth season premiere episode after this album.

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Charts

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