Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
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| Single by The Police | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Ghost in the Machine | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Flexible Strategies" (UK) "Shambelle" (US) |
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| Released | 2 November 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | Vinyl record (7") | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec, Canada, 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Length | 4:22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | A&M – AMS 8174 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Sting | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" is a song by British rock group The Police from their fourth album Ghost in the Machine. The song, notable for featuring a pianist (uncommon for most Police songs), dates back to a demo recorded in 1977. It was also a hit single that reached the top of the charts in the United Kingdom (topping its predecessor, "Invisible Sun") in November 1981 and hit number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart that same year.
Although recorded in 1981, Sting wrote the song as early as 1976. An early (1977) demo of the song can be heard on the Strontium 90 album Strontium 90: Police Academy. A good ear will detect that the vocals are set back from the music on this track. This was either due to the mastering feel, or the overdub from the demo.
This was first recorded as a demo, with the piano figure, in a studio in Montreal. I had written the song long before the Police were successful, but it seemed a bit soft for the band at first. But the demo was really great. It sounded like a No 1 song to me. I took it to the band, who were reticent, still thinking it was soft. I was saying, "But listen, it's a hit." We tried to do it from scratch as the Police, but it didn't have the same energy as the demo. After a degree of hair-pulling and torturing on my part, I got the band to play over the top of my demo.
The piano part was added by session keyboardist Jean Roussel, whom Sting invited to play on the track against the wishes of his bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland. Summers did not approve of Roussel's inclusion in the track, claiming that he was "incredibly pushy" and that "there wasn't room for him. He must have played 12 piano parts on that song alone." Copeland, however, said that Roussel "wasn't pushy ... He was just like us actually."
Feeling that the arrangement of the track was not enough like The Police style, Summers (who recalled, "as the guitar player I was saying, 'What the fuck is this? This is not the Police sound'") and Copeland attempted to change the track. However, as Copeland remembers:
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