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!  colspan="2" | <big>'''"Spirits In The Material World"'''</big>
 
!  colspan="2" | <big>'''"Spirits In The Material World"'''</big>
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
|  colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:45rpm.png|thumb|center|If song was released as a single, include single cover art. Otherwise, include album cover artwork to replace the 45 rpm, if available.]]
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|  colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Spirits_UK_release_flyer.jpg|thumb|center|a flyer for the single's UK release]]
 
|- style="background-color: #E6E6E6;"
 
|- style="background-color: #E6E6E6;"
 
!  colspan="2" | Recorded by [[The Police]]
 
!  colspan="2" | Recorded by [[The Police]]
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
| <b>Released:</b>
 
| <b>Released:</b>
| [[YYYY]]
+
| [[1981-12-04]] (UK)
 +
[[1982-02-21]] (Japan)
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
| <b>Recorded:</b>
 
| <b>Recorded:</b>
| 1981
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| [[1981-06-20]] - [[1981-07-26]]
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
| <b>Length:</b>
 
| <b>Length:</b>
| SONG LENGTH
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| 2:58
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
| <b>Album(s):</b>
 
| <b>Album(s):</b>
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|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
| <b>Label(s):</b>
 
| <b>Label(s):</b>
| [[RECORD LABEL]]
+
| [[A&M]]
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
| <b>Writer(s):</b>
 
| <b>Writer(s):</b>
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|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
| <b>Producer(s):</b>
 
| <b>Producer(s):</b>
| [[PRODUCER NAME(S)]]
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| [[Hugh Padgham]] & [[The Police]]
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
| <b>Studio(s):</b>
 
| <b>Studio(s):</b>
| [[RECORDING STUDIO(S)]]
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| [[AIR Studios]], Montserrat
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
|- style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"
 
| <b>Released as single?</b>
 
| <b>Released as single?</b>
| YES, B-SIDE, or NO
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| YES
 
|}
 
|}
  
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=Release History=
 
=Release History=
 
==Albums==
 
==Albums==
[[Song]] appears on the following album releases:
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[[Spirits In The Material World]] appears on the following album releases:
 
{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="1" style="background-color: #F0F0F0;  border-spacing: 2; padding:5px;"
 
{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="1" style="background-color: #F0F0F0;  border-spacing: 2; padding:5px;"
 
! Cover art
 
! Cover art
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! Release country
 
! Release country
 
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| [[Image:Police-album-ghostinthemachine.jpg|40px]]
| [[Album date]]
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| [[Ghost In The Machine]]
| [[YYYY-MM-DD]]
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| [[1981-10-02]]
| Country
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| UK
 
|}
 
|}
  
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! Release date
 
! Release date
 
! Release country
 
! Release country
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:Spirits_UK.jpg|40px]]
 +
| AMS 8194
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Low Life]]"
 +
| [[1981-12-04]]
 +
| UK
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AM 23.292
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Omegaman]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Argentina
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| K-8647
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Low Life]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Australia
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AM 30397
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Bolivia
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AM 47.040
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Low Life]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Brazil
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AM 560
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Hungry For You]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Canada
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AM 7065028
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Too Much Information]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Costa Rica
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AMS 9186
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Low Life]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Germany
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AMS 8194
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Low Life]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Greece
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AMS 9186
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Low Life]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| The Netherlands
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AMS 8194
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Low Life]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Ireland
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AMS 9186
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Low Life]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Italy
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AM 42038
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Flexible Strategies]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Mexico
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| K 8647
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Low Life]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| New Zealand
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| CSR 1192
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Too Much Information]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Peru
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AMRS 1376
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Low Life]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| South Africa
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AMS 9186
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Low Life]]"
 +
| [[1981-MM-DD]]
 +
| Spain
 
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
| Catalog no.
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| AMP 2390
| "[[A-side song]]"/"[[B-side song]]"  
+
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Flexible Strategies]]"  
| [[YYYY-MM-DD]]
+
| [[1982-MM-DD]]
| Country
+
| USA
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 +
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 +
| AMP 740
 +
| "[[Spirits In The Material World]]"/"[[Flexible Strategies]]"
 +
| [[1982-02-21]]
 +
| Japan
 
|}
 
|}
  
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| Catalog no.
 
| Catalog no.
 
| "[[A-side song]]"/"[[B-side song]]" (add more songs as necessary)
 
| "[[A-side song]]"/"[[B-side song]]" (add more songs as necessary)
| [[1979-12-01]]
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| [[YYYY-MM-DD]]
 
| Country
 
| Country
 
|}
 
|}
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=Lyrics=
 
=Lyrics=
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'''Lyrics are property and copyright of their owners, and provided here for educational purposes only.'''
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<pre>
 
<pre>
This is a sample set of lyrics
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There is no political solution
They should go here
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To our troubled evolution
 +
Have no faith in constitution
 +
There is no bloody revolution
 +
 
 +
We are spirits in the material world
 +
 
 +
Our so-called leaders speak
 +
With words they try to jail you
 +
They subjugate the meek
 +
But it's the rhetoric of failure
 +
 
 +
We are spirits in the material world
 +
 
 +
Where does the answer lie?
 +
Living from day to day
 +
If it's something we can't buy
 +
There must be another way
  
If a song is an instrumental
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We are spirits in the material world
Delete the Lyrics header
 
and this section
 
as well
 
 
</pre>
 
</pre>
  
 
=Quotations and trivia=
 
=Quotations and trivia=
''This section needs more information.''
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* In [[1982-09 Guitar Player]] talks about the guitar sound: "Actually , that is just a guitar played up very high and plucked dry - you know, the palm on the string. I blended this with the setting on the Prophet-5 keyboard synthesizer to get that kind of sound."
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* This song was featured in Season 8, Episode 6 of the television series ''American Horror Story''.[https://musicfromahs.tumblr.com/post/179169839700/season-8-episode-6-final-scene-of-the-episode]
  
 
=Alternative and cover versions=
 
=Alternative and cover versions=
''This section needs more information.''
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An alternative version of [[Spirits In The Material World]] appears on the following album release:
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{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="1" style="background-color: #F0F0F0;  border-spacing: 2; padding:5px;"
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! Cover art
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! Artist
 +
! Album title
 +
! Release date
 +
! Release country
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:Reggatta_Mondatta.jpg|40px]]
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| Pato Banton feat. [[Sting (person) | Sting]]
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| [[Reggatta Mondatta]]
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| [[1997-MM-DD]]
 +
| The Netherlands
 +
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:North_Star_Curved_Air.jpg|40px]]
 +
| [[Curved Air]]
 +
| [[North Star]]
 +
| [[2014-17-03]]
 +
| United Kingdom
 +
|}
  
 
=See also=
 
=See also=

Revision as of 19:21, 3 August 2020

"Spirits In The Material World"
a flyer for the single's UK release
Recorded by The Police
Released: 1981-12-04 (UK)

1982-02-21 (Japan)

Recorded: 1981-06-20 - 1981-07-26
Length: 2:58
Album(s): Ghost In The Machine
Label(s): A&M
Writer(s): Sting
Producer(s): Hugh Padgham & The Police
Studio(s): AIR Studios, Montserrat
Released as single? YES

"Spirits In The Material World" is a song written by Sting and recorded by The Police in 1981.

About the song

This section needs more information.

Personnel

This section needs more information.

Release History

Albums

Spirits In The Material World appears on the following album releases:

Cover art Album title Release date Release country
Police-album-ghostinthemachine.jpg Ghost In The Machine 1981-10-02 UK

Singles

CD Singles

Cover art Catalog no. Songs Release date Release country
Stub.gif Catalog no. "Song"(s) YYYY-MM-DD Country

7" Singles

Cover art Catalog no. A-side song/B-side song Release date Release country
40px AMS 8194 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Low Life" 1981-12-04 UK
Stub.gif AM 23.292 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Omegaman" 1981-MM-DD Argentina
Stub.gif K-8647 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Low Life" 1981-MM-DD Australia
Stub.gif AM 30397 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" 1981-MM-DD Bolivia
Stub.gif AM 47.040 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Low Life" 1981-MM-DD Brazil
Stub.gif AM 560 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Hungry For You" 1981-MM-DD Canada
Stub.gif AM 7065028 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Too Much Information" 1981-MM-DD Costa Rica
Stub.gif AMS 9186 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Low Life" 1981-MM-DD Germany
Stub.gif AMS 8194 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Low Life" 1981-MM-DD Greece
Stub.gif AMS 9186 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Low Life" 1981-MM-DD The Netherlands
Stub.gif AMS 8194 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Low Life" 1981-MM-DD Ireland
Stub.gif AMS 9186 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Low Life" 1981-MM-DD Italy
Stub.gif AM 42038 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Flexible Strategies" 1981-MM-DD Mexico
Stub.gif K 8647 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Low Life" 1981-MM-DD New Zealand
Stub.gif CSR 1192 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Too Much Information" 1981-MM-DD Peru
Stub.gif AMRS 1376 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Low Life" 1981-MM-DD South Africa
Stub.gif AMS 9186 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Low Life" 1981-MM-DD Spain
Stub.gif AMP 2390 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Flexible Strategies" 1982-MM-DD USA
Stub.gif AMP 740 "Spirits In The Material World"/"Flexible Strategies" 1982-02-21 Japan

12" Singles

Cover art Catalog no. A-side song(s)/B-side song(s) Release date Release country
Stub.gif Catalog no. "A-side song"/"B-side song" (add more songs as necessary) YYYY-MM-DD Country

Video

"SONG TITLE" appears on the following video and dvd releases:

Cover art Video title Release date Release country
Stub.gif Video or dvd title YYYY-MM-DD Country


Awards, nominations, and certifications

Awards

This section needs more information.

Year Winner Award Category
YYYY WINNER (album, song, producer, etc.) AWARD (Grammy, People's Choice, etc.) CATEGORY

Nominations

This section needs more information.

Year Nominee Award Category
YYYY NOMINEE (album, song, producer, etc.) AWARD (Grammy, People's Choice, etc.) CATEGORY

Certifications

This section needs more information.

Country Certifier Classification Certification
COUNTRY CERTIFIER (RIAA, IFPI...) CLASSIFICATION (Album, singles, foreign artist...) CERTIFICATION (Gold, Platinum, Diamond...)

Lyrics

Lyrics are property and copyright of their owners, and provided here for educational purposes only.

There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution

We are spirits in the material world

Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
They subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure

We are spirits in the material world

Where does the answer lie?
Living from day to day
If it's something we can't buy
There must be another way

We are spirits in the material world

Quotations and trivia

  • In 1982-09 Guitar Player talks about the guitar sound: "Actually , that is just a guitar played up very high and plucked dry - you know, the palm on the string. I blended this with the setting on the Prophet-5 keyboard synthesizer to get that kind of sound."
  • This song was featured in Season 8, Episode 6 of the television series American Horror Story.[1]

Alternative and cover versions

An alternative version of Spirits In The Material World appears on the following album release:

Cover art Artist Album title Release date Release country
Reggatta Mondatta.jpg Pato Banton feat. Sting Reggatta Mondatta 1997-MM-DD The Netherlands
North Star Curved Air.jpg Curved Air North Star 2014-17-03 United Kingdom

See also

This section needs more information.

External links

This section needs more information.

References

  • Police, The. Ghost In The Machine. (1981) [Audio recording], A&M Records.