Top singles from the past
4 November 2024
Today 45 years ago, THE POLICE topped the UK Singles Chart with
WALKING ON THE MOON (almost 155 million streams on Spotify).
It was the British trio’s second No. 1 hit in their home country, written
by Sting and taken from their 2nd album Reggatta De Blanc
Sting later revealed in an interview when and how he wrote the song: “I was drunk in a hotel room in Munich, slumped on the bed with the whirling pit when this riff came into my head. I got up and started walking around the room, singing ‘Walking round the room, ya, ya, walking round the room’. That was all. In the cool light of morning I remembered what had happened and I wrote the riff down. But ‘Walking Round the Room’ was a stupid title so I thought of something even more stupid which was ‘Walking on the Moon’.”
Watch the 45-year-old clip right here.
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