Vinyl Icon: The Police's Synchronicity
Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, November 2009
IN 1977, a virtually unknown trio called The Police recorded their debut album, Outlandos D'Amour, in a village hall that had been converted to a studio by a local doctor in the small English town of Leatherhead. For soundproofing, it had egg cartons stuck to the walls.
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