Signature
key confidence high · relative Bb major · tempo confidence medium · half-time 66.2 · low end 31% · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-13 · how accurate
Character
Not tagged yet. The words are proposed and waiting for a person.
Good for
Nothing yet. The rules need the character words above before they can say.
Lineage
- CoveredAri Hestsource
- CoveredCorneillesource
- CoveredJuliet Simmssource
- CoveredK.D.'s Basement Partysource
- CoveredLouisa Beysource
- CoveredMusica Nudasource
- CoveredPaola Arnesanosource
- CoveredStevie Wonder with Stingsource
- Written byStingsource
- CoveredSting & Gil Evanssource
- CoveredSting & Shaggysource
- CoveredStingsource
- CoveredU2source
Why it is here
- The song was written from the point of view of a man who falls in love with a prostitute, inspired by prostitutes Sting saw near the band's hotel in Paris in 1977. source
- The atonal piano chord and laughter heard at the start of the track came from Sting accidentally sitting on a piano keyboard during recording. source
- It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008 and ranked No. 388 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. source
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