{"id":29878,"date":"2024-07-09T15:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-9-1983-the-police-hit-1-with-every-breath-you-take\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T15:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:01:38","slug":"on-this-day-july-9-1983-the-police-hit-1-with-every-breath-you-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-9-1983-the-police-hit-1-with-every-breath-you-take\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 9, 1983: The Police hit #1 with &#8220;Every Breath You Take&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-09\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, July 9, 1983\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Police<\/strong> landed their first and only #1 song with \u201cEvery Breath You Take,\u201d from their #1 album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Synchronicity<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The song spent eight weeks on top of the chart, and hit #1 in Canada and the U.K.,\u00a0spending four weeks at #1 in both countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cEvery Breath You Take\u201d earned The Police two Grammy Awards, Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tune was later sampled in <strong>Puff Daddy\u2019<\/strong>s 1997 hit \u201cI\u2019ll Be Missing You,\u201d\u00a0a tribute to the late rapper <strong>The Notorious B.I.G<\/strong>. That tune spent 11 weeks on top of the Hot 100 chart, and won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a duo or group.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Police are set to reissue <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Synchronicity<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> on July 26, with a deluxe box set that includes 55 previously unreleased tracks, including alternate takes, instrumentals, demos and live recordings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, July 9, 1983\u2026 The Police landed their first and only #1 song with \u201cEvery Breath You Take,\u201d from their #1 album Synchronicity. The song spent eight weeks on top of the chart, and hit #1 in Canada and the U.K.,\u00a0spending four weeks at #1 in both countries.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-9-1983-the-police-hit-1-with-every-breath-you-take\/\">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\/29878"}],"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=29878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}