WCSX Classic Cuts : Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
WCSX Classic Cuts
The Police: “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
The Hook: Written by Sting years five years before its release as a reaction to the “punk-a-rama” then surrounding them.
Album: Ghost in the Machine
Year: 1981
Writer: Sting
Stats: Peaked at number-three on the Billboard Hot 100.
Background: The Police formed during the early days of the British punk movement, so it’s not too surprising that many of their early songs had elements of what was currently in vogue. Drummer Stewart Copeland recalls that although they didn’t record it until five years later, in a way punk actually inspired Sting to write “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic.”
Police drummer Stewart Copeland on when and why Sting wrote “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic.” OC:…tragic…tragic! :28
“He wrote that song when we were a punk group traveling around playing sniveling things. It was sort of like an exercise as a relief from all this oppressive punk-a-rama. And he was just stuck on this line, ‘Every thing she does is magic’ and he was stuck on the challenge of finding a rhyme for magic. [sings] ‘Every little thing she does is magic…da da la da la da la la…fagic?’ And then I remember him leaping up and down, ‘I got it! Tragic! Tragic!’”
