Reggatta de Blanc
"It was a real easy album for us to record; it only took three or four weeks. Outlandos was recorded over a six-month period in bits and pieces. On Reggatta we actually cancelled two weeks of studio time. This time the material wasn't rehearsed but the band was. We knew each other's styles because we'd been playing together constantly for eight months, which we hadn't been doing when we recorded the first album."
Trouser Press, 12/79
Message In a Bottle
"One of our best moments in the studio and always great on stage. We played it at Sting's wedding, a decade after the group disbanded, and it ws still buring."
Message In A Box Liner Notes, 93
"Message In A Bottle was a dead cert hit from the first attempt at a backing track."
L'Historia Bandidio, 1981
"My favorite thing about Message In A Bottle, apart from all the money we made off it, was hearing cover bands trying to play my drum parts. I'd overdubbed about six different parts, and to watch some band in a Holiday Inn struggling to play all those overdubs still gives me great joy. Now that is really Schadenfreude."
Revolver, 4/00
Reggata de Blanc
"Reggatta de Blanc was actually a stage jam from the middle of Can't Stand Losing You that eventually solidified into a new piece."
Revolver, 4/00
Walking on the Moon
"Walking On The Moon took us a lot of work. It started out as a rocker but we finally changed it right around."
L'Historia Bandidio, 1981
Does Everyone Stare?
"I recorded the demo for that at home. I had a little home studio at the time with wires going everywhere - I think I was running the guitar through the toaster, that sort of thing - and I was playing the piano part while I sang the song, or at least what was supposed to be the lyrics of the song. And just as I finished singing, all the wires in the room acted like a radio and picked up a signal of this opera. It was perfectly in time and perfectly in tune, even the mood and sentiment of the thing were absolutely perfect. So it went straight on tape, exactly in the place that it should have gone. It had to be a message from above that this was the way the song had to go. So we actually used that, my home demo, at the beginning of the studio recording."
Musician, 12/81
