The Richest Songs in the World (tv) • #7: on its place in the 1980s, its perfection, its production in the same year as the MTV music awards; Sting on it not being original in terms of chords; on Andy Summers developing the opening guitar riff; on it being a song about control; a quarter to a third of entire revenues for The Police; difficulty of relations with Stuart Copland; on Puff Daddy's sampling of it and Sting keeping 100% credit; difficulty of copyright over a riff when the credit songwriter didn't write the riff, and an (undisclosed) arrangement that Andy Summers came to regarding this
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