{"id":29646,"date":"2024-06-03T18:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-police-release-king-of-pain-demo-from-40th-anniversary-synchronicity-box-set\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T18:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:02:59","slug":"the-police-release-king-of-pain-demo-from-40th-anniversary-synchronicity-box-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-police-release-king-of-pain-demo-from-40th-anniversary-synchronicity-box-set\/","title":{"rendered":"The Police release &#8220;King of Pain&#8221; demo from 40th anniversary &#8216;Synchronicity&#8217; box set"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-03\/M_thepolicesynch_052924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>UMe\/Polydor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Police<\/strong> have\u00a0offered up their first preview of\u00a0the upcoming 40th anniversary box set of their classic album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Synchronicity<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famers just released a previously unreleased demo of the single \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=coFbVTUeSh0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>King of Pain<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">,\u201d which was a top five hit for the band.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 40th anniversary edition of <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Synchronicity<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> will be released July 26 in a variety of formats, including a six-CD super deluxe box set featuring 55 previously unreleased tracks\u00a0\u2014 alternate takes, instrumentals, demos and live recordings \u2014 along with new liner notes, interviews and previously unseen photographs.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Released in 1983, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Synchronicity<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> was\u00a0The Police&#8217;s\u00a0final album. It was also their best-selling album, spending 17 weeks at #1 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> 200 Album chart, thanks to such hits as \u201cEvery Breath You Take,\u201d which spent eight weeks at #1, \u201cKing of Pain&#8221; and \u201cWrapped Around your Finger.\u201d It was also certified eight-times Platinum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Synchronicity<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2023 it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/coFbVTUeSh0\" title=\"King Of Pain (Demo)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMe\/Polydor The Police have\u00a0offered up their first preview of\u00a0the upcoming 40th anniversary box set of their classic album Synchronicity. The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famers just released a previously unreleased demo of the single \u201cKing of Pain,\u201d which was a top five hit for the band. The 40th anniversary<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-police-release-king-of-pain-demo-from-40th-anniversary-synchronicity-box-set\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}