Hi everybody from Giovanni.
did anyone notice that the studio recording of "Message in a bottle" has an official end? Turn the volume up and the instruments stop playing, then Sting sings / says "sending out an S.O.blue".
Sting one day answered about that in an interview for Q Magazine (If I remember well) and he explained talking about the S.O.Blue ad. There is another weird thing concernig Police different mixing: if you listen to 'Roxanne' in some of the releases (greatest hits, Message In A Box, singles, etc....) you will notice a different speed at the beginning for some of the recordings; it comes back to 'normal' speed in a few seconds, but this alterate the sound of the first few chords, and you can easily listen they are higher than the rest of the song; it happens only in a few releases. Another 'sound freak' can be listenend in 'Bring On The Night': a guitar chord is completely cut while is still 'sounding', in a very bad way to tell the truth, but is so hidden that you can't listen to it normally; I only noticed it last year, while I was listening to the song in the recording studio where I use to work. Ciao ciao Giovanni