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Andy Jones

Every Breath You Take at 40: the story behind the song - "It was crap until I played on it"

The fights, the meaning of the song, the cash and the studio insanity

You can't help but embrace stats when faced with a song like Every Breath You Take. Our favourite one is from 2011 when the BBC worked out that the song had then been played on the radio for the equivalent length of 150 years. You can probably double that now, so, let's say three centuries. Yes, Every Breath You Take is a massive song. Probably the biggest ever. Here's its story.

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