In addition to supplying The Police with their album title, Koestler’s 1967 tome examined the human mind and society’s apparent appetite for self-destruction. It was one of several tracks Sting wrote after delving into Arthur Koestler’s book Ghost In The Machine. It was just what we needed.”Īside from its vivid arrangement, “Demolition Man” features an especially memorable lyric, with lines such as “I’m a walking nightmare/An arsenal of doom/I kill conversation/As I walk into the room” being typical of the song’s portentous imagery. It got us off to a good beginning, because everyone was really up from that.
“To me, our version is much more ballsy and it was a one-take job,” Summers explained. Vamping around Sting’s insistent, cyclical bassline, Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland also excelled on the track, which turned into an urgent, six-minute tour de force performed with a similar intensity to Regatta De Blanc’s “Death Wish.” The Police significantly broadened their sonic palette on Ghost In The Machine, adding keyboards and horns to a number of the tracks, and their beefy take of “Demolition Man” featured Sting riffing the song’s counter-melody on tenor saxophone.
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