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An alternate version of “Spirits in the Material World“ is performed by The Police in 1981. Written by Sting, the song is the opening track for their 1981 album Ghost in the Machine. The single reached number 12 in the United Kingdom and number 11 in the US in early 1982. 'Spirits in the Material World' was written on one of those Casio keyboards while I was riding in the back of a truck somewhere. I just tap, tap, tap, and there it was, just by accident. That was the first time I'd ever touched a synthesizer, that album. — Sting, Synchronicity Tour Program, 1983 Andy Summers' presence on the studio track is considerably less pronounced than on the vast majority of Police songs, and in fact, Sting wanted to record it without him entirely. Having written the song on a synthesizer, he wanted for it to use a synthesizer instead of a guitar, and to play the synthesizer part himself. Summers thought the synthesizer part should be replaced by the guitar, and after a con
