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2 Questions[edit]

Who does the talking on "Be My Girl - Sally"?

And is Masoko Tanga actually instrumental? I can hear Sting sing on it, though only meaningless sylables such as "ah oh..." -- Nahum 00:27, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Andy did the talking in the same fake Lancashire accent he used to read classified ads on Dead End Job. Masoko Tanga is as instrumental as Reggatta de Blanc is (which contains the name of the song onceand the word "yeah" repeated throughout) and that track won a Grammy for "Best Rock Instrumental Performance". — User:ACupOfCoffee @ 03:22, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology, so to speak, of "Outlandos"[edit]

I have removed the following text:

This title was a loose French translation of "Outlaws of Love", with the first word being a combination of the words "outlaws" and "commandos", and "d'Amour" meaning "of love".^[1]

The source given is not trustworthy and does not even back up the assertion that "outlandos" is a combination of two words. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tdimhcs (talk • contribs) 19:45, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ The Police FAQ

Peanuts[edit]

I've never heard that this song was about Sting (and I'm pretty familiar with the books, movies, interviews, etc.). I HAVE heard that it's about Rod Stewart, though I can't remember the source for that. There's enough water under the bridge b/t SC and GS to throw extra BS in. This should be sourced or chucked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.253.43.46 (talk) 22:47, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Release date discrepancy.[edit]

I noticed there's a discrepancy online for the release date of the Outlandos D'Amour album, some articles titled with "On This Day in 1978" that were posted on November 2 say November 2 in the release date while on The Police's Official Facebook post posted on November 17 say November 2 was originally intended to be the release date but it got pushed back to November 17, so who's right and who's wrong or is no one right? My references are below.

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https://www.hotpress.com/music/on-this-day-in-1978-the-police-release-their-debut-album-outlandos-damour-22831802

https://lonestar925.iheart.com/featured/jeff-k/content/2023-11-02-on-this-day-in-1978-the-police-debuted-with-outlandos-damour/

https://www.facebook.com/thepolice/videos/45-years-of-outlandos-damour-join-us-in-celebrating-the-timeless-magic-of-the-po/888251566347279/ Database8493 (talk) 00:38, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your notional 17 November is not supported by any reliable sources. Hotpress is a useless webscraper site, the Texas radio host obviously did not research his throwaway post, and Facebook is not reliable per WP:USERG. Your Facebook author isn't even named. I'm pretty sure Dietmar over at thepolicewiki.org fabricated the 17 November thing by himself.

The only discrepancy worth talking about are the reliable sources that say the album was released 2 November versus 3 November. BPI says 3 November[1] but AllMusic and Lescharts both list 2 November.[2][3] Binksternet (talk) 01:24, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What's the point of haveing November 3 listed as the release date on the wiki page when November 2 is the earlyest date? Database8493 (talk) 01:51, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The album was released on only one day. Which day? Some reliable sources say 2 Nov and others say 3 Nov. If there was some way to find the most authoritative source, then we could settle on one day. Failing that, we should tell the readers that we don't know the exact day. Binksternet (talk) 02:13, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] The Police FAQ

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