He was asked to put guitar onto a simple backing track, with Sting offering no directive beyond "make it your own." While recording, Andy Summers came up with a guitar part inspired by Béla Bartók, that would later become the famous riff, and played it in one take.
The demo was recorded in an eight-track suite in London's Utopia studios and featured Sting singing over a Hammond organ.Ī few months later, he presented it to his bandmates in Montserrat.
"I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite." He said: "One couple told me 'Oh we love that song it was the main song played at our wedding!' I thought, 'Well, good luck'. Read more: Sting's 10 greatest songs ever, ranked He insists it is about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy that follows. Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think it is a positive song.Although often thought of as a love song, the lyrics are the words of a possessive lover who is watching "every breath you take every move you make".Led Zeppelin's song, 'D'Yer Mak'er', also contains the words 'every breath I take every move I make'.According to the Back to Mono box-set, the song is influenced by a Gene Pitney tack titled 'Every Breath I Take'.I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control." Read more: The moment Sting jumped on stage to join overwhelmed singer in rendition of 'Englishman in New York' I didn't realize at the time how sinister it is. The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting. Sting later said: "I woke up in the middle of the night with that line in my head, sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour. To escape from the public eye, Sting retreated in the Caribbean where he started writing the song.The Independent reported in 2006: "The problem was, he was already married – to actress Frances Tomelty, who just happened to be Trudie's best friend (Sting and Frances lived next door to Trudie in Bayswater).
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