Stewart Copeland is the drummer. He's a beast. The whole band is stings use of modes and melody. Andy summers heavily jazz influenced right in time style playing. They were the best and alot more complex than most will ever know
"Sting accidentally sat down on a piano keyboard in the studio, resulting in the atonal piano chord and laughter preserved at the beginning of the track" GENIUS!!!
You know every time you choose to replay this song, you're choosing what you do with your life for the next 3 minutes. A new timeline is opened every time you replay this.
Its just a song called roxanne. He didnt even sample the instruments or the vocals. Is his own song that he named roxannr it has nothing to do with police. Guess u and every one who liked ur comment are just upset with the fact that hip hip ist getting very mich attention while nobody cares about your music ypu idiots
I saw them live in 1978 and it was the best show I'd ever seen. They came out and kicked ass on every song. The performance was perfect. Stewart Copeland was one of the most versatile drummers of the day.
i was 11 the first time i heard this. i just remember looking at my cousins speakers and being absolutely blown away. after that it was hard for me to hear it anywhere because i was to young to buy albums and most radio stations didn’t play it. when i got a bit older i got a cassette player an was able to tape it off wbcn in boston. it sounds just as good today as it did from my cousins speakers 40 years ago
Well the police were touring in paris in 78/79 before (or maybe just as) they hit the big time... he saw a poster for a production of edmund de rostand's play; the rest - as they say - is musical history.
Many years ago, a band I was in opened for the then unkown Police at a small club in Cambridge Ma.. They arrived that afternoon in a station wagon, the band and one roadie. They set up their own equipment. Roxanne was the first song they played.. We were all STUNNED.. I'd never heard a song that sounded anything like this before.. I think they were famous by the end of that first song.. This song is so amazing.
Bobbynibbles didn't they do a song that was basically stalking? "I'll be watching you / Every Breath You Take" I think that one was an iconic song from The Police, too.
god this song is freaking amazing,im almost 15 years old and love this song since 5-6 years,its like a sound im always hearing... thanks to my mum,she bring me to earth with kinda great music taste:p
André Pietersen Yeah, because an "American" picture would go well with The Police...seeing as they are "American"...oh wait...they're not. It's a shame your French first name isn't more "American"
Roxanne You don't have to put on the red light Those days are over You don't have to sell your body to the night Roxanne You don't have to wear that dress tonight Walk the streets for money You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right Roxanne You don't have to put on the red light Roxanne You don't have to put on the red light put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light Oh! I loved you since I knew ya I wouldn't talk down to ya I have to tell you just how I feel I won't share you with another boy I know my mind is made up So put away your make-up Told you once, I won't tell you again it's a bad way Roxanne You don't have to put on the red light Roxanne You don't have to put on the red light You don't have to put on the red light (Roxanne) (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light You don't have to put on the red light (Roxanne) (Roxanne) put on the red light You don't have to put on the red light (Roxanne) (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light (Roxanne) put on the red light
On this day in 1979 {April 25th} the Police made their debut on British television when they appear on the program ''Top of the Pops'... The trio performed "Roxanne"; and at the time the song was in its first week on the United Kingdom's Singles chart, eighteen days later on May 13th it would peak at #12 {for 1 week}... While in the U.S.A. "Roxanne"* was in its first of two weeks at #32 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, and that would also be its peak position on the chart and it spent 13 weeks on the Top 100... Between 1978 and 1997 the trio had thirteen Top 100 records; four made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Every Breath You Take" for 8 weeks in 1983... * Eighteen years later in late 1997 "Roxanne" re-entered the Top 100 as "Roxanne '97”, it was a remix by Puff Daddy & the Police, and on January 4th, 1998 it peaked at #59 {for 3 weeks} and like the original, it also spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
I wish there was a video of Annie's dancing to full length of this song. She was so adorable when she breaks out letting herself loose dancing to this song.
This was our song. It would always play at a red light. We're sitting in your big blue truck covered in orange flames, engine rumbling. I went to work with you after a beautiful night we spent together. I'm wearing your leather jacket, it's November. You look my way and smile, pulling me in for a kiss waiting for traffic. You're singing along nudging me to turn on my red light. You old bastard. I miss and love you xxx 10-4. 🌻
I don't listen to The Police all that much, but I must admit. When they first came out, I liked them a lot. This is one of my favorites by these guys. If anybody remembers the movie "48 Hours" with Eddie Murphy, Eddie was singing this song while listening to his Sony Walkman. It was some funny shit man!!! My wife got me the Deluxe edition of that movie for Christmas, which also includes "Another 48 Hours", etc.
The "Every Breath You Take" compilation album was the first album I listened all the way through as a kid. This song holds a special place in my heart for that reason.
Sting accidently sat on the piano during the recording at the beginning, that is his laughter they never cut it from the release.
I heard it was Lou Reed! But yours makes more sense!
thats original, and so is the song. sweet story. 2014 and im still listenting to some real music
ein Ah great, another damn prick determining what qualifies someone as a "bellend".
Thanks Nucky.
Had no idea, nice share. :)
Whoever this drummer is he's pretty good....
Just so you know, Jeff, you are now creating six different timelines.
Of course I am Abed.
Airplane bathroom
Stewart Copeland is the drummer. He's a beast. The whole band is stings use of modes and melody. Andy summers heavily jazz influenced right in time style playing. They were the best and alot more complex than most will ever know
Steven Connell Britta is streets ahead
What is happening
Just so you know, Jeff, you are now creating six different timelines.
Of course I am Abed
Vizual **bang** OW!
***** ROOOXANNE!!!
NO.
***** *Hmmph* *looks at Abed* Bathroom?!
This song is streets ahead
Golden comment
Mizz Mini 👍🏻 #6SeasonsandaMovie
Your comments are streets ahead #deanlightful
Mizz Mini I wonder what happened in all the other timelines
@@Fulcrum_28 Maybe MeowMeowBeenz would still exist.
The energy put into "Roxanne" at 1:58 gives me chills
Wow, his voice kinda freaks out
Same bro. Chills of nostalgia and pleasure.
Thats because He was trying to sing like Bob Marley, also why this was recorded in Jamaica
dylanbmx Has
Shot to the
When I was a kid, I thought this song was about a woman who controlled traffic lights.
+Fuzy2K adorable :)
+Fuzy2K you win the internet for today :DD that's so cute!
Same here haha those were the good ole days
HA! same lol
I thought it was about a women who ran the traffic signal that was red. And the police told her she doesnt have to
In my opinion, this is probably one of the best songs I've ever heard.
This and message in a bottle
It definitely hits different, when high 😅
@@stangztm942 extremely
ROOOOOCKKKK SANDD!!!
Nicholas Gordon puauauhural
Best comment ever! I laughed my ass of!
Nicholas Gordon Oh, thanks a lot. Oh THANKS A FUCKIN' LOT! I will NEVER forgive you for this and I'll see you in hell! I CAN'T GET IT OUTTA MY HEAD!
Asa Holmes It can never be unheard.
RAAAAW SPAAAAAAAAMMMM
Alright, Britta has taste in music
Yep
She's the best.
@@Ratchet2431 And nobody can tell us otherwise
Britta's the bestt
@@taniasaxena8253 Amen
BRITTA: ROOOOOOXXXAAAAANE!!!!!!
Char Gandz “NO” -Jeff
STOPPP
At least she says it in one of the timelines.
No
HAHAHAHA
2:12 Troy enters seeing everything that’s happened
I'm gonna go real fast so I don't miss anything......
Nice how the profile pic you have sets the mood.
@@swampwaffle74 😂yeah
NOOOOOO!!!!! *tries to eat flaming troll*
@@PrinceAkaiVtuber _clearly you don't understand anything about defeating trolls_
If you're all dancing to this it means your in the best timeline.
Edit: yes, I really Britta'd the spelling on that one
funny im born in 1999
nothing can convince me this isn’t the darkest timeline
@@papaquaalude8227 Community exists.
“Just so you know Jeff, you are now creating 6 different timelines.”
How did you get the first "you're" right but not the second??
"Sting accidentally sat down on a piano keyboard in the studio, resulting in the atonal piano chord and laughter preserved at the beginning of the track"
GENIUS!!!
I like how throughout the song, he gets more passionate and urgent every time he says “Roxanne”
And more annoying.
You know every time you choose to replay this song, you're choosing what you do with your life for the next 3 minutes. A new timeline is opened every time you replay this.
I'm not gonna get the pizza!
never really thought of it that way. now I'm always gonna remember this
I wander what happened in all those other timelines
Lisa Simpson I understood that reference
@@kidflash2133 I understood THAT reference
This is the original Roxanne kids.
StrawberryWaffles Yes not the stupid RAP SONG.
Thank u
Yes I made mental note to never hear that again
Damn you gerne nazis
Its just a song called roxanne. He didnt even sample the instruments or the vocals. Is his own song that he named roxannr it has nothing to do with police. Guess u and every one who liked ur comment are just upset with the fact that hip hip ist getting very mich attention while nobody cares about your music ypu idiots
I saw them live in 1978 and it was the best show I'd ever seen. They came out and kicked ass on every song. The performance was perfect. Stewart Copeland was one of the most versatile drummers of the day.
One of the greatest bands of the '80's, with their reggae-tinged music.
Me and my buddy just cruisin down the highway with a blunt or two blasting this song. Life's good
I feel you
Stephen Sturgis same
Idiots driving while on drugs. Good job assholes.
User Name Thanks, my dude.
User Name you need to chill bro there not hurting you
This tune never gets old...
It does if your name is Roxanne
One of the best songs from the Police......I remember when I was a teenager from the 80's!
"Just so you know Jeff, you are now creating six different timelines"
Of course I am abed
Changed the lyrics to this song for the raccoon under my porch. I called her Roxanne and told her she did not have to live under the porch tonight.
omg did exactly the same thing but called him rocky because he was clearly a boy 😄
lol
hahahahahaha
lol
Haha! I love it!
i was 11 the first time i heard this. i just remember looking at my cousins speakers and being absolutely blown away. after that it was hard for me to hear it anywhere because i was to young to buy albums and most radio stations didn’t play it. when i got a bit older i got a cassette player an was able to tape it off wbcn in boston. it sounds just as good today as it did from my cousins speakers 40 years ago
I knew this song for years but as a 23 yo man child we can determine that i am from the timeline where i do binge & love community
the awkward moment when you heard this as a kid and were unaware it's about a call girl xD.
Well the police were touring in paris in 78/79 before (or maybe just as) they hit the big time... he saw a poster for a production of edmund de rostand's play; the rest - as they say - is musical history.
This song makes me want to create 6 different timelines
Community folks, a community brought us here
Many years ago, a band I was in opened for the then unkown Police at a small club in Cambridge Ma.. They arrived that afternoon in a station wagon, the band and one roadie. They set up their own equipment. Roxanne was the first song they played.. We were all STUNNED.. I'd never heard a song that sounded anything like this before.. I think they were famous by the end of that first song.. This song is so amazing.
Jeff, just so you know, you're creating six alternate timelines...
+Josh Weiss of course i am abed
what an episode
Win!
Of course I am, Ahbed.
#SixSeasonsAndAMovie
My first concert was Sting with my parents. I don't remember what year, but I was still relatively young. He absolutely KILLED this song. Good times.
Cool. Cool cool coll.
I wonder what happened in all those other timelines.
Only one Community Reference. This must be the darkest Timeline...
What time line ;p
Speaking of different timelines, did Pierce tell you about his sexual encounter with Eartha Kitt?
CAN I bring it in?
@@Dosegamersonskype I mean, we have 6 seasons but no movie, what did you expect?
One of the more recognizable Police songs.
Bobbynibbles didn't they do a song that was basically stalking? "I'll be watching you / Every Breath You Take"
I think that one was an iconic song from The Police, too.
Community !!
Ross can!
+Cleo Green Ross can get me the tickets!
Love how Sting accidentally sits on the piano at 0:05 and laughs at 0:07.
Tyler Costa i NEVER noticed that o.o
Tyler Costa Good one.
+Tyler Costa lol
i thought vocal booths were small...How did they manage to fit a piano in there?
sounds kinda cool though lol
"roooxa-" "NO!"
Bathroom?
@@BenDover-lg4wv Speaking of bathrooms...
Heard this in the Casino and immediately knew I’m gonna have it repeat for a while
Idk why but I just always gets so hype when the chorus hits
Roxanne shoulda put the red light on before she got hit by that go kart lmao
LMFAO
LOL
The best Roxanne song out
Put on the red light!!
Roxaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!
Correct me if I'm wrong but is your pfp Dean the bean Winchester
Some people just can't.
I have a red light in a bedroom window!! It was my husband's idea😎
god this song is freaking amazing,im almost 15 years old and love this song since 5-6 years,its like a sound im always hearing...
thanks to my mum,she bring me to earth with kinda great music taste:p
Wow! I didn't know Kim Jong Un is 15!!!!
AND HE LIKES CLASSIC AMERICAN ROCK!!!!
Mad props Kim :P
Same
A shame that you can't have a American hearcut....
André Pietersen Yeah, because an "American" picture would go well with The Police...seeing as they are "American"...oh wait...they're not. It's a shame your French first name isn't more "American"
Herrooo! I
My first real love of a band was these guys. Still listen to them, wish I could have seen them in concert...
i had a buffalo named Roxanne, she was a damn good friend.
I came across this song by accident...so glad I did.. excellent song
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne
You don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
Oh!
I loved you since I knew ya
I wouldn't talk down to ya
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your make-up
Told you once, I won't tell you again it's a bad way
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
You don't have to put on the red light (Roxanne)
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
You don't have to put on the red light (Roxanne)
(Roxanne) put on the red light
You don't have to put on the red light (Roxanne)
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
(Roxanne) put on the red light
Grazie
Jeanette Fleming morning wow
Thanks!
Este es un clásico de los 80 y viene muy bien para cualquier fábrica.
The whole band is on top of the game on this track.
Listen closely to the beginning of the intro.
At 0:04 he hits the piano to early
At 0:07 he laughs.
Havik M hahaha
Very observant
Turns out to be completely magnificent in sound though
Actually he tripped and fell then laughed.
hahaha! great
This song is dope.
never gets old
On this day in 1979 {April 25th} the Police made their debut on British television when they appear on the program ''Top of the Pops'...
The trio performed "Roxanne"; and at the time the song was in its first week on the United Kingdom's Singles chart, eighteen days later on May 13th it would peak at #12 {for 1 week}...
While in the U.S.A. "Roxanne"* was in its first of two weeks at #32 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, and that would also be its peak position on the chart and it spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
Between 1978 and 1997 the trio had thirteen Top 100 records; four made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Every Breath You Take" for 8 weeks in 1983...
* Eighteen years later in late 1997 "Roxanne" re-entered the Top 100 as "Roxanne '97”, it was a remix by Puff Daddy & the Police, and on January 4th, 1998 it peaked at #59 {for 3 weeks} and like the original, it also spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
That piano accident might have been the best accident to happen to a song it made the song that much better honestly
Rip my uncle this was his jam
Muy buenos recuerdos 👍🏼
El Tango De Roxanne in my opinion is superior but this is still amazing
Ahh. Gotta love the classics.
I am reminded of "Phyllis's Wedding" from the Office.
rocksand, rocksaaannddd, rooocksanndd
soothing to my ear
Kevin, you got a great taste in music.
listening during Quarintine, forgot hoe much I liked these songs, graduated in 1988
For those wondering, the musicians are lead vocalist-bassist Sting, guitarist Andy Summers, and drummer Stewart Copeland.
Untrue
AWESOME DRUMMING!!!!!!!
New Wave ! Sting and the Police putting up the line. Police line do not cross. I.m lovin it. Set the stage for the whole 80's.
Oingo Boingo anyone.
The Police Roxanne biggest song ever to come out of the late seventies
I wish there was a video of Annie's dancing to full length of this song. She was so adorable when she breaks out letting herself loose dancing to this song.
MUY BUENA BANDA.SALUDOS DESDE URUGUAY!!!!!
I remember hearing this for the first time in 2005. Now I hear it all the time on 103.9 the fox
GOOD MORNING GREENDALE!
Mano tô viciada nessa música, ela é muitoooo boa!!! 😍❤️👏
Yh me too
I heard this in a Burger King and automatically fell in love
The timelines! The tiiiiimeeeeelineeeessss!
this is a bad ass song...I wish I had talent like that!
This song makes me want to order pizza and create new timelines.
"Wait-there are other timelines?"
I just say my wife's name Suzanne in place of Roxanne whenever I'm singing this awesome Police tune!
Box Fan!! You keep me cool at night!
That Easter egg at the beginning is cool 😂
I wonder if I'm listen to this song in the darkest possible time-line.
Probably.
+Riley Meachem YES YES YES, i am not the only one here from Britta's ridiculous singing. #sixseasonsandamovie
+ben turner me so hungry
+ben turner 'Rooo..no!' :D #sixseasonsandamovie
+Riley Meachem i thought i was the only one i think im captured in mine
Ima MEX WE CAN
1:58 Best moment: "ROOOOXAAAANNE!"
Named my youngest daughter Roxanne just because of this song.
Minecraft Speedrunner introduced me to this song, I am glad to listen to this
One of the greatest songs of all time.
This was our song. It would always play at a red light. We're sitting in your big blue truck covered in orange flames, engine rumbling. I went to work with you after a beautiful night we spent together. I'm wearing your leather jacket, it's November. You look my way and smile, pulling me in for a kiss waiting for traffic. You're singing along nudging me to turn on my red light. You old bastard. I miss and love you xxx 10-4. 🌻
🥺
2020 still here Doing it!! 😘
I'm so jealous that my mom and her brother got to see this one live. 😍
I'm PE I had to do a push up and jumping Jack every time he sang "Roxanne". I am dying and exhausted.
Oldie but goldie
+xxxGamerKid123 Oldie but a goodie.
face down here i wait for you, aint you gunnah urisit this bewhoozo bitchi
I don't listen to The Police all that much, but I must admit. When they first came out, I liked them a lot.
This is one of my favorites by these guys.
If anybody remembers the movie "48 Hours" with Eddie Murphy, Eddie was singing this song while listening to his Sony Walkman. It was some funny shit man!!!
My wife got me the Deluxe edition of that movie for Christmas, which also includes "Another 48 Hours", etc.
Parents used to play this when I was a kid. Thank god!
Best scene in "48 Hours" - Eddie Murphy in jail singing along with the Walkman.
"Pizza, pizza in my tummy, me so hungee, me so hungee!"
holy crap i cant be the first to find this song after swedish house mafia released "Redlight". Both these songs are bangers
The "Every Breath You Take" compilation album was the first album I listened all the way through as a kid. This song holds a special place in my heart for that reason.
Rock Sand
If you are not a drummer you wouldn't come to realize how complex this song is! Stewart Copeland is a genius.
I’m a drummer and I don’t feel like this really qualifies as anything phenomenal in the drums department
Un misiiiiiiiiil en mi placaaard...........Mi placard
This is without a doubt one of the songs I've ever heard
great drinking game