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"'Walking on the Moon'" is a 1979 song by The Police, from their second album, ''Regatta de Blanc''. The song was The Police's second number one hit single in the United Kingdom after "Message in a Bottle", but didn't chart in the United States. According to Sting the song is about the feeling of being in love.
Sting said that he wrote the song when he was drunk (''L'Historia Bandido'', 1981):
In his autobiography ''Broken Music'' (2003), Sting alludes that the song was partially inspired by an early girlfriend:
The video for the song was filmed at Kennedy Space Center on October 23, 1979. It features the band members pantomiming to the song amidst spacecraft displays, interspersed with NASA footage. Both Sting and Andy Summers strum guitars (not bass) in the video, and Stewart Copeland strikes his drumsticks on a Saturn V moon rocket.
Musician Jimmy Nail (also from Sting's hometown of Newcastle upon Tyne) released a cover version of "Walking on the Moon" in 2001. German techno group Scooter sampled The Police original in the song "Privelaged To Witness" from the 2005 album ''Who's Got The Last Laugh Now?''. During Feeder's second gig of 2006 at the Hammersmith Apollo, frontman Grant Nicholas sung the first few lines of the song in between their own song "Pilgrim Soul". The song was covered in June 2007 by Cas Haley of the band Woodbelly on America's Got Talent.
★ The song has been used in Nissan commercials.
★ Mike DiFelice of the New York Mets currently (2007) has this song play as entrance music.
"'Walking on the Moon'" is a 1979 song by The Police, from their second album, ''Regatta de Blanc''. The song was The Police's second number one hit single in the United Kingdom after "Message in a Bottle", but didn't chart in the United States. According to Sting the song is about the feeling of being in love.
Sting said that he wrote the song when he was drunk (''L'Historia Bandido'', 1981):
In his autobiography ''Broken Music'' (2003), Sting alludes that the song was partially inspired by an early girlfriend:
The video for the song was filmed at Kennedy Space Center on October 23, 1979. It features the band members pantomiming to the song amidst spacecraft displays, interspersed with NASA footage. Both Sting and Andy Summers strum guitars (not bass) in the video, and Stewart Copeland strikes his drumsticks on a Saturn V moon rocket.
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Musician Jimmy Nail (also from Sting's hometown of Newcastle upon Tyne) released a cover version of "Walking on the Moon" in 2001. German techno group Scooter sampled The Police original in the song "Privelaged To Witness" from the 2005 album ''Who's Got The Last Laugh Now?''. During Feeder's second gig of 2006 at the Hammersmith Apollo, frontman Grant Nicholas sung the first few lines of the song in between their own song "Pilgrim Soul". The song was covered in June 2007 by Cas Haley of the band Woodbelly on America's Got Talent.
Trivia
★ The song has been used in Nissan commercials.
★ Mike DiFelice of the New York Mets currently (2007) has this song play as entrance music.
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