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UMeLast year, The Police marked the 40th anniversary of its debut album, Outlandos d’Amour, by releasing a vinyl box set called Every Move You Make: The Studio Recordings.  Now, a six-CD version of collection will hit stores on November 8.

The package features newly remastered versions of the band’s five studio records — Outlandos d’Amour, 1979’s Reggatta de Blanc, 1980’s Zenyatta Mondatta, 1981’s Ghost in the Machine and 1983’s Synchronicity — plus the new rarities compilation Flexible Strategies.  That includes non-album tracks and B-sides, and includes a rare 1983 remix on “Truth Hits Everybody.”

The CDs are housed in gatefold digipak wallets and come packaged in a clamshell-style box.

Formed in 1977, The Police featured singer/bassist Sting, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland and became one of the most popular acts to emerge from the New Wave scene. All five Police studio albums have sold at least a million copies in the U.S., with the chart-topping Synchronicity being the group’s most successful release, having sold more than eight million copies in the States.

Among the memorable Police songs and hits featured in the box: “Roxanne,” “Message in a Bottle,” “Walking on the Moon,” “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” “Driven to Tears,” “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da,” “Spirits in the Material World,” “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “King of Pain,” “Synchronicity II”  and the #1 smash “Every Breath You Take.”

Also on November 8, Reggatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mondatta, Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity will be reissued as standalone LPs pressed on 180-gram vinyl.

Here are the track lists of the albums in the box set:

Outlandos d’Amour

“Next to You”
“So Lonely”
“Roxanne”
“Hole in My Life”
“Peanuts”
“Can’t Stand Losing You”
“Truth Hits Everybody”
“Born in the ’50s”
“Be My Girl — Sally”
“Masoko Tanga”

Reggatta de Blanc

“Message in a Bottle”
“Reggatta de Blanc”
“It’s Alright for You”
“Bring on the Night”
“Deathwish”
“Walking on the Moon”
“On Any Other Day”
“The Bed’s Too Big Without You”
“Contact”
“Does Everyone Stare”
“No Time This Time”

Zenyatta Mondatta

“Don’t Stand So Close to Me”
“Driven to Tears”
“When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around”
“Canary in a Coalmine”
“Voices Inside My Head”
“Bombs Away”
“De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da”
“Behind My Camel”
“Man in a Suitcase”
“Shadows in the Rain”
“The Other Way of Stopping”

Ghost in the Machine

“Spirits in the Material World”
“Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
“Invisible Sun”
“Hungry for You (J’aurais Toujours Faim de Toi)”
“Demolition Man”
“Too Much Information”
“Rehumanize Yourself”
“One World (Not Three)”
“Ωmegaman”

Synchronicity

“Synchronicity I”
“Walking in Your Footsteps”
“O My God”
“Mother”
“Miss Gradenko”
“Synchronicity II”
“Every Breath You Take”
“King of Pain”
“Wrapped Around Your Finger”
“Tea in the Sahara”

Flexible Strategies

“Dead End Job” (1978)
“Landlord” (1979)
“Visions of the Night” (1979)
“Friends” (1980)
“A Sermon” (1980)
“Shambelle” (1981)
“Flexible Strategies” (1981)
“Low Life” (1981)
“Murder by Numbers” (1983)
“Truth Hits Everybody” (Remix) (1983)
“Someone to Talk To” (1983)
“Once Upon a Daydream” (1983)

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