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Message in a Bottle
The Police
The riff that made The Police impossible to ignore: the story of Message in a Bottle.
Sting brought three chords into a 1979 session at Surrey Sound Studios. Andy Summers ran them through a chorus pedal and turned them into that shimmering intro everyone knows. Underneath it, a lyric about a castaway who realizes he is not alone in being alone.
What is the loneliest lyric you know by heart?
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