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.”
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Born on the 2nd of October 1951 Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner is the son of a milkman. In his young years Gordon helped his father with the milk deliveries. After leaving school in 1969, spending one term at the University of Warwick, working as a bus conductor, building labourer and tax officer, he went and got a teaching qualification. He earned a nickname when a fellow musician thought he “looked like a wasp” in his yellow-and-black striped sweater. “Sting” was working as a schoolteacher when his band “The Police” hit the big time.