The 1992 Greatest Hits cd has the original Don’t Stand. You might be thinking of the 1986 Every Breath compilation.
Partly because the drums are programmed. Stewart had recently broken his collarbone, and was unable to play, so he programmed the percussion.
Interesting, I thought the original version always was on Greatest Hits? I have the 1990s digital mastered CD of that compilation... [Edit:] I knew there was some confusion. lol
Interesting. I heard a different story. I read somewhere where Sting and Stewart never worked in the studio at the same time as they hated each other and each one would erase the others parts/tracks and replaced them with whatever they wanted. Sting having the last laugh with the program drums pretty much.
Yes, there’s a fair amount of post-production in the release, Sting double-tracking his voice, primarily.
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That happened during the recording of Synchronicity. Sting and Stewart's relationship broke down so much that it was decided one would track in the morning while the other member would be out skiing, then they would switch places in the afternoon. Sting would then proceed to chop up and/or eliminate Stewarts parts and Hugh Padgham acted like the middle man taking all of the anger from the whole band and mostly sided with Sting as there was really no other choice in the matter.
All three members were photographed separately and on different days for the Synchronicity album cover.
Although DDDD, DDDD wasn't part of this film, It seems there may be problems with the Frejus footage .......... even though it seems to be owned by Miles Copeland. Urgh! A Music War - Wikipedia The film rights are owned by both its original producer, Miles Copeland III (founder of IRS Records), and Warner Bros. Pictures (successor-in-interest to production company Lorimar). However, the rights to distribute the film on electronic media have been, until recently, mired in contractual disputes. A popular theory was that the rights were "lost" as a result of the collapse of the failed CED or SelectaVision videodisc format – to promote the adoption of the format, RCA reportedly purchased exclusive rights to Urgh! such that it could not appear on any other media without re-negotiation. When Thomson Electronics acquired RCA, SelectaVision was a dead issue for them. Exhibition rights were retained by Copeland, and Urgh! has been shown on TV numerous times, including recent airings on VH1 and various cable-only channels.
Really interesting discussions I didn't know about the nemesis between Steward and Sting ... It's sad ... as I idealize this band. I think Steward Copeland was a great musician, in another dimension than Sting the lyricist. When I listen to The Dream of the Blue Turtles and Nothing Like The Sun. Sting took great drummers with a complete different style. I think I understand Copeland was behind the atypical and magical sound of The Police. Anyway, I read that some of the footages was videotaped, even if it's impossible to capture more pixels as we can on a silver film, videotape got an advantage, the frame-rate, 50 (PAL) or 60 (NTSC). And I believe videotape can be a bit smoothed. Old videotape still got potential. So I hope even the videotaped live footages will be restored one day ... How the sound on the live show were captured on Around The World ?
Interesting…I used to have the album of that movie and it was a fantastic album. Also another Miles compilation album called Propaganda that had Landlord and Next to you live was brilliant as well.
It's been available on Warner Archives DVD for over a bit over 12 years. https://www.amazon.com/Urgh-Music-War-Sting/dp/B002WJHBEU/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=urgh!&link_code=qs&qid=1652363315&sr=8-1 Be aware like virtually all Warner Archive DVD's it is a DVD-R and it's lossy Dolby Digital. I have hoped Urgh! would be "promoted" to Blu-ray with Lossless but perhaps what you mentioned makes new efforts on video for the film a challenge?
I received an email from Amazon.ca this afternoon saying my CD/Blu Ray combo won't be here until May 30-31.
Thank you @Nightfly68 for sharing and posting the article...this part is very interesting... recordings of their very first night in US playing at CBGB's and some film footage??
