The POLICE: Wrapped around your finger + Someone to Talk to (unreleased) AnM AM127 (July 83) Check video

Description

Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger
Label: A&M Records
Catalog#: AMP 127
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Picture Disc, Single
Country: UK
Released: 1983
Genre: Pop, Rock
Style:Pop Rock

Tracklist
A Wrapped Around Your Finger
Lyrics By, Music By – Sting
B Someone To Talk To (unreleased)
Lyrics By, Music By – Andy Summers

Producer – Hugh Padgham , Police

A-Side:
From the A&M album synchronicity’ – AMLX 63735

“Wrapped Around Your Finger” is the second UK single from The Polices 1983 album Synchronicity. It was released worldwide by A&M Records and featured non-album track “Someone To Talk To” as a b-side.
Like other Police songs from this period, it features mythological and literary references, including the Scylla and Charybdis monsters of Greek mythology, and the German legend of Faust. It has a relatively slow, almost foreboding feel in the beginning verses, modulating to evoke a lighter, triumphant feel during the chorus. It reached number 7 in the UK charts in July 1983[1] and was the fourth single from Synchronicity to chart in the US, making it to #8 on the Billboard chart in March 1984.

Music video:
The music video furthers the ethereal feeling the song gives off, by having footage of the band performing in a candle-lit, gloomy room, interspersed with scenes of Sting running among tall candlesticks arranged in a sort of maze. Andy Summers is shown playing an acoustic guitar, an instrument never used in any of the Polices recordings.
The video was directed by Godley & Creme.

Cover versions:
On the album Policia! – A Tribute to the Police, the metalcore band Underoath recorded this song.
Brazilian alternative rock band Skank played an upbeat version of this song in Spanish language, titled “Estaré Prendido En Tus Dedos” (“I’ll Be Bound to Your Fingers”), on their live album Skank MTV ao vivo.
Dutch alternative rock/grunge band Green Lizard did a cover version on their debut album Identity in 2000.
Tori Amos has covered this in concert several times with an intricate piano-only arrangement of the song. One of the versions is included in the bootleg Under The Covers With Tori.
Bob Belden, Dianne Reeves & John Scofield covered this song.
The album Punk Goes 80s includes a cover by Brazil
John Mayer mentions the song title in his song ’83’, with the lyric ‘Its a bittersweet feeling hearing wrapped around your finger on the radio’. He also samples the songs verse riff as the outro for his performance of Assassin during live performances
Cyril Neville covered this song on the album Spirits in the Material World: a Reggae Tribute to the Police.

Other uses:
NBC used the intro and instrumental version of the song for a Super Bowl XXIII pregame piece on San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh and Cincinnati Bengals coach (and former Walsh assistant) Sam Wyche.

Personnel:
Sting – bass guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals on “Wrapped Around Your Finger”, saxophone on “Someone to Talk To”
Andy Summers – guitar, lead and backing vocals on “Someone To Talk To”, effects
Stewart Copeland – drums