The Very Best of Sting & The Police

~ Release by Sting & The Police (see all versions of this release, 10 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
# Title Artist Rating Length
1 Message in a Bottle
The Police 4.3 4:51
2 Can’t Stand Losing You
The Police 3.4 3:02
3 Englishman in New York
Sting 4.2 4:29
4 Every Breath You Take
The Police 4.1 4:13
5 Walking on the Moon
The Police 3.7 5:03
6 Fields of Gold
Sting 3.7 3:40
7 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
The Police 4.6 4:22
8 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
Sting 4.65 4:16
9 Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (edit)
Sting 4:30
10 Russians
Sting 4.15 3:59
11 If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
Sting 3 4:31
12 When We Dance (edit)
Sting 4:18
13 Don’t Stand So Close to Me
The Police 3.8 4:02
14 Roxanne
The Police 4.2 3:14
15 Roxanne ’97 (Puff Daddy remix)
The Police 1 4:33

Credits

CD 1

electric bass guitar:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 1, 4–5, 7, 14)
drums:
Stewart Copeland (tracks 1–2, 4–5, 7, 14)
Omar Hakim (tracks 8, 10)
guitar:
Andy Summers (track 2)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 8, 10)
bass:
Darryl Jones (bassist for The Rolling Stones) (tracks 8, 10)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (track 2)
electric guitar:
Andy Summers (tracks 1, 4–5, 7, 14)
keyboard:
Kenny Kirkland (tracks 8, 10)
saxophone:
Branford Marsalis (tracks 8, 10)
piano:
Jean Roussel (track 7)
additional synclavier:
Danny Quatrochi (tracks 8, 10)
arranger:
The Police (British rock band) (tracks 1–2, 5, 14)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 3, 10, 10)
assistant mixer:
Andrew Bradfield (tracks 6, 11)
Pete Lewis (engineer) (tracks 6, 11)
Mark McKenna (track 3)
Simon Osborne (tracks 6, 11)
Bob Vogt (track 3)
background vocals:
Full Force (American R&B group, frequent collab w/ Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam) (track 15)
Dolette McDonald (tracks 8, 10)
Janice Pendarvis (tracks 8, 10)
co-producer:
Hugh Padgham (track 7)
composer:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 1–8, 10–14)
engineer:
Hugh Padgham (tracks 6–7, 9, 11)
Chris Gray (UK Engineer) (tracks 2, 14)
Chris Gray (Chicago techno producer) (track 2)
Nigel Gray (tracks 1–2, 5, 13–14)
Pete Smith (UK producer) (tracks 8, 10)
Simon Osborne (track 9)
Jim Scott (US recording engineer and producer) (tracks 8, 10)
lyricist:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 1–8, 10–14)
mastering:
Dave Collins (US mastering engineer) (tracks 1–12, 14)
Herb Powers, Jr. (track 15)
mixer:
Hugh Padgham (tracks 3, 6, 9, 11–12)
Pete Smith (UK producer) (tracks 8, 10)
Prince Charles Alexander (Funk artist, member of the the City Beat Band) (track 15)
Jim Scott (US recording engineer and producer) (tracks 8, 10)
producer:
Neil Dorfsman (track 3)
Hugh Padgham (tracks 4, 6, 9, 11–12)
The Police (British rock band) (tracks 1–2, 4–5, 7, 13–15)
Nigel Gray (tracks 1, 5, 13)
Pete Smith (UK producer) (tracks 8, 10)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 3, 6, 8–12)
recording engineer:
Prince Charles Alexander (Funk artist, member of the the City Beat Band) (track 15)
remixer:
Puff Daddy (also known as Puff Daddy & P. Diddy) (track 15)
J‐Dub (production, real name Jeffrey Walker) (track 15)
Stevie J (US hip-hop producer/songwriter Steven Jordan) (track 15)
vocals:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 1–2, 4–5, 7–8, 10, 14)
phonographic copyright by:
A&M Records (1978 –) (track 14)
A&M Records (1979 –) (tracks 1, 5)
A&M Records (1981 –) (track 7)
A&M Records (1983) (track 4)
A&M Records (2016) (track 4)
publisher:
EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (track 4)
EMI Music Publishing Germany (GmbH & Co. KG) (track 6)
EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (track 6)
Steerpike Ltd. (track 6)
Virgin Music (publisher only, do not use as a label) (tracks 2, 13–14)
Virgin Music, Inc. (The American arm of Virgin's publishing company) (tracks 1, 5)
recorded at:
Surrey Sound Studios in Leatherhead, Surrey, United Kingdom (tracks 1–2, 5, 14)
Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (track 13)
mash-ups:
I Can't Stand Along the Watchtower by ToToM (track 2)
Stand By Me by ccc (track 4)
remixes:
Can't Stand Losing You (5.1 mix) by The Police (track 2)
Don't Stand So Close to Me (5.1 mix) by The Police (track 13)
Every Breath You Take (5.1 mix) by The Police (track 4)
sampled by:
I’ll Be Missing You by Puff Daddy & the Family feat. Faith Evans & 112 (track 4)
What Means the World to You by Cam’ron (track 14)
part of:
The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 84) (track 4)
The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 388) (track 14)
is based on:
Lieutenant Kijé Suite, op. 60: II. Romance (track 10)
is the basis for:
Fields of Gold (choral) (track 6)
later parody versions:
Biznessman in Whitehawk (track 3)
Every Step to Take (track 4)
Fields of Dick (track 6)
Laikus pērciet pasterizēto pienu (track 7)
Message in the Bible (track 1)
Turkulainen Helsingis (track 3)
Walking Through Moulescomb (track 5)
later translated parody versions:
Friesenjung (track 3)
Humppaleski 45 (track 4)
Sua vartioin (track 4)
later translated versions:
Africain à Paris (track 3)
El mensaje en la botella (track 1)
Kultaniityt (track 6)
Rolando por la luna (track 5)
Todo lo que él hace (track 7)
Veel to olt (track 6)
イングリッシュマン・イン・ニューヨーク (track 3)
later versions:
Venezuelan in New York (track 3)
recording of:
Can’t Stand Losing You (track 2)
Don’t Stand So Close to Me (track 13)
Englishman in New York (track 3)
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (song by The Police) (track 7)
Fields of Gold (track 6)
If I Ever Lose My Faith in You (track 11)
If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (track 8)
Let Your Soul be Your Pilot (track 9)
Message in a Bottle (The Police song) (track 1)
Roxanne (track 14)
Russians (track 10)
Walking on the Moon (track 5)
When We Dance (track 12)
Every Breath You Take (1983) (track 4)
referred to in medleys:
Polkas on 45 (track 4)