The Police managed to hit the sweet spot between commercial success and critical love better than most bands of their era. "Message in a Bottle," one of their earliest successes, still stands out as one of the best songs they recorded in their short but illustrious time together. What is the song about? How did it help The Police avoid the sophomore slump? And why does Sting feel it's one of the finest songs that he's ever written? Let's get that cork out of there and find out all we can about The Police's "Message in a Bottle."
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NINA STIBBE is best known for the memoir that became the BBC series, Love, Nina. Here, in our final extract from her new book, she details what she dubs her Grown Up Gap Year in London .