The Police Tickets

The Police tickets Pressured by their record company for a new record and a prompt return to touring, the The Police tickets released their third album, Zenyatta Mondatta, in the autumn of 1980. The Police album gave the group their third U.K. #1 hit, "Don't Stand So Close to Me", and "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da", which charted in the United States. In subsequent interviews Sting stated that The Police regretted the rushed recording for the album. However, many critics would later cite it as one of their strongest efforts. The Police instrumental "Behind My Camel," written by Andy Summers won The Police a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The Police song "Don't Stand So Close to Me" won the Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance For Duo Or Group.

The Police beat out Jackson in one category: "Every Breath You Take" won the Grammy for Song Of The Police Year, beating Jackson's "Billie Jean". "Every Breath You Take" also won the Grammy for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal while "Synchronicity II" won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. "Every Breath You Take" also won the American Video Award for Best Group video and nabbed two Ivor Novello Awards for the categories Best Song Musically & Lyrically and Most Performed Work. In 1983, Stewart Copeland composed the musical score for Rumble Fish a film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola from the S.E. Hinton novel. A song released to radio on A& M Records "Don't Box Me In ", a collaboration between Copeland and singer/songwriter Stan Ridgway leader of The Police Wall of Voodoo, received significant airplay upon release of the film that year.