Walking on The Moon – The Police (1979)

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Additional information about this, The Police vinyl art.

The Police – The Artist

The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For most of their history the line-up consisted of primary songwriter Sting (lead vocals, bass guitar), Andy Summers (guitar), and Stewart Copeland (drums, percussion). The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Emerging in the British new wave scene, they played a style of rock influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz. The Police disbanded in 1986 upon which they embarked on solo careers. The band have sold over 75 million records, making them one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time.

Walking on The Moon – The Song

‘Walking on The Moon’ is a reggae song by British rock band the Police, released as the second single from their second studio album, Reggatta de Blanc (1979). The song was written by the band’s lead vocalist and bassist Sting. It went on to become the band’s second No. 1 hit in the UK. According to Sting, the song was originally recorded “as a rocker” in early versions, but it was reworked. The riff, which is played on the bass, was described as “weird” and “jazzy” by Sting. Guitarist Andy Summers came up with the chord “which hits after the bass notes” throughout the song.
“Walking on the Moon” was released as the follow-up single to the British No. 1 single “Message in a Bottle” in late 1979.

The Astronaut on The Moon – The Shape

This record is modelled into an astronaut walking on the moon. An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον (astron), meaning ‘star’, and ναύτης (nautes), meaning ‘sailor’) is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists. “Astronaut” technically applies to all human space travellers regardless of nationality. However, astronauts fielded by Russia or the Soviet Union are typically known instead as cosmonauts (from the Russian “kosmos” (космос), meaning “space”, also borrowed from Greek

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