It’s hard to believe that “Roxanne” by The Police included an amusing mistake at the start, especially when it flawlessly fits into the music.
Sure enough, the first big hit for the British band features a hilarious mistake, and the whole band decided to keep it. You can hear it in the first fix to six seconds of the song, a chord and laugh that sounds like it perfectly fits with the style of the track, and it was actually a “butt dial” of sorts. Literally played by Sting’s behind.
Sting explained it in an interview that he “just wanted to rest.” As he sat back on what he thought was a closed piano lid, he quickly found out that the keys were exposed, and he played an odd chord while recording. He even laughed at his own clumsiness, and all of that was kept in the recording of the song, because “it was real.”
The 1978 track nearly didn’t take off in the way that it would eventually be known. In fact, it was banned from the radio airwaves by the BBC in the UK, with the view that the song was too explicit with hidden meanings.
The decision angered the band, especially when “Banned by the BBC” was put on posters and still didn’t do anything to stir people toward the track. According to a 2023 interview, Sting shared that, “There was no talk about fucking in it, it wasn’t a smutty song in any sense of the word. It was a real song with a real, felt lyric, and they wouldn’t play it on the grounds that it was about a prostitute.”
Sure enough, the song itself was about a prostitute, and it came about because Sting realized how beautiful some of the girls were when he first saw them on the streets. However, they didn’t have much to work with apart from a general story in the song, and it was drummer Stewart Copeland who suggested that they infused the rock with the tango sound. Guitarist Andy Summers explained, “Stewart put that slight reggae thing on, and Sting changed where he put the bass beats. We worked it up in one afternoon.”
Thanks to an underground radio station in Texas, “Roxanne” gained popularity. From there, other radio stations in the United States picked up the song, and while it didn’t hit the No. 1 spot, it did help to put The Police, finally, on the map. They would walk away with two No. 1 hits in 1979 with “Message in a Bottle” and “Walking on the Moon.”
Since then, “Roxanne” has become one of the most renowned songs by The Police around the world. It was covered in Moulin Rouge, adding more of a tango style to the track, and artists such as George Michael and Fall Out Boy have put their own styles to the track.
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