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GLEN BURTNIK'S SYNCHRONICITY is the trio of Glen Burtnik on bass & vocals, Jimmy Leahey on guitar & vocals, and Odell Davis on drums.
ABOUT THE NAME...
The name Synchronicity comes from the fifth album by The Police, released in 1983. Their most popular release together, Synchronicity includes perhaps their best-known single, "Every Breath You Take."
Synchronicity topped both the Billboard Pop Albums and Billboard 200 charts (finally ending the reign of Michael Jackson's Thriller for a while in the US). It won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
In 2001, VH-1 named Synchronicity the 50th greatest album of all time.
"Every Breath You Take," which begins side two of the record, is almost without question The Police's best-known song, with Sting's eerie vocals on top of a steady rhythm featuring picked guitar, strong bass, and controlled drumming. Originally, the song was what Andy Summers called a "Hammond organ thing that sounded like Billy Preston." The guitarist came up with a more interesting guitar riff, which, next to the vocals, is perhaps the most distinctive part of the piece. The song, released before the album, immediately went to #1 on both the U.S. and UK charts.
"King of Pain" features a large amount of lyrical imagery, and uses numerous effects and instruments, while "Wrapped Around Your Finger" uses subdued keyboards to create a mystical air. "Synchronicity I" and "Synchronicity II" allude to "The Second Coming", a poem by William Butler Yeats.
"King of Pain" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" also made it into the Top Ten, and "Synchronicity II" reached the Top Twenty. Synchronicity managed to make it to number one for several weeks in 1983.
The album's original cover artwork was available in 36 variations, with different arrangements of the color stripes and showing different photographs of the band members, which they took themselves.
GLEN BURTNIK'S SYNCHRONICITY honors the music from this critically acclaimed album, along with other outstanding songs by The Police, including "Roxanne," "Don't Stand So Close To Me," "De Do Do Do De Da Da Da," and "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic."
Official myspace page: www.myspace.com/gbsynchronicity
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