4 STORIES
1978 · 70S
PARIS, FRANCE
A reedy tenor voice climbs an impossible interval, a guitar chimes a hollow minor-seventh, and a young trio from London accidentally invents…
1979 · 70S
A castaway on a remote island hurls a sealed plea into the surf, only to discover, a year later, that he is one of millions of lonely souls …
1981 · 80S
A glittering, almost embarrassingly earnest love song wedged into one of the most cerebral rock catalogs of the early eighties, "Every Littl…
1983 · 80S
ORACABESSA, JAMAICA
The most requested first-dance song of the 1980s is not a love song at all — Sting wrote it in the wreckage of his first marriage as the voi…