'Bombs Away' was written on a Siouxsie and the Banshees backing track. Copeland said that "when he first set up his home studio he got hold of a load of second hand tape which included some stuff by Siouxsie and the Banshees. "Bombs Away" was recorded on a tape that Nigel Gray had just used with Siouxsie and the Banshees. So I took it around the back of the studio and actually buried it in the garden." Nigel Gray believed that the title was an in-joke by Summers: "He didn't tell me this himself but I'm 98% sure the reason is this: what would you find behind a camel? A monumental pile of shit." According to Sting, "I hated that song so much that, one day when I was in the studio, I found the tape lying on the table. As bassist and vocalist Sting refused to play on it, Summers recorded the bass line himself, overdubbing the guitar parts. "Behind My Camel" was guitarist Andy Summers' first entirely self-penned composition. The record has two instrumentals, "The Other Way of Stopping" (named from a line in Bob Newhart's "The Driving Instructor" routine) and " Behind My Camel". The album is the last of the Police's early era, influenced by reggae and punk and featuring few musical elements on top of the core guitar, bass, and drums. Īs mentioned by Copeland, the Police embarked on a tour of the world the day of the album's completion, beginning in Belgium and finishing in Australia. Feeling that he had played a significant part in the Police's first two albums, Gray negotiated for a £25,000 fee, which brought the album's total budget to £35,000 (more than twice the combined budgets of their first two albums, but still exceptionally cheap for a band who at that point had become established stars). They were, however, able to retain Nigel Gray as their co-producer, bringing him with them to Wisseloord Studios in the Netherlands. The band had wanted to record the album at Surrey Sound, the recording site of their first two albums, but could not record at any British studio for tax reasons. We went to bed for a few hours and then traveled down to Belgium for the first gig. on the day we were starting our next world tour. Drummer Stewart Copeland said about the time pressures: "We had bitten off more than we could chew. . The band members have often expressed disappointment over the album, going so far as to re-record two songs during a brief, unsuccessful reunion in 1986. Zenyatta Mondatta was written during the Police's second tour and recorded in four weeks (minus several days for concerts in Ireland and at the Milton Keynes festival in the United Kingdom). The album won the band two Grammy Awards: Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and Best Rock Instrumental Performance for " Behind My Camel". It produced the hit singles " Don't Stand So Close to Me" and " De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da". Zenyatta Mondatta reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and number five on the US Billboard 200. It was co-produced by the band and Nigel Gray. Zenyatta Mondatta (stylised as Zenyattà Mondatta on the album cover artwork) is the third studio album by English rock band the Police, released on 3 October 1980 by A&M Records.
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