On 2010-05-16, at 11:21 AM, police-request@mailman.xmission.com wrote:

I seem to recall learning that the original demo of this classic track was with a Hammond Organ. Has anyone ever heard it? Have it?

What I heard (I believe it was in an interview with Sting in Musician magazine, 1983) was that the original recording had a relatively complex synthesizer riff, which was erased in order to keep the song simpler. Chris