On 2 November 1978 “The Police” released their debut album. The working title for the album had been “Police Brutality” but it was changed to Outlandos d’Amour to make it sound more romantic. The album initially performed poorly due to low exposure and an unfavourable reaction from the “BBC” to its first two singles, Roxanne and Can’t Stand Losing You, owing to their subject matters, prostitution and suicide. However the international success of Roxanne led to a re-release of the single in the UK almost making the top 10. A subsequent re-release of Can’t Stand Losing You nearly topped the chart. It stranded at number 2 thanks to I Don’t Like Mondays by the “Boomtown Rats.”