Reggatta de Blanc ist das zweite Studioalbum von The Police. Es erschien im Oktober 1979 bei A&M Records. Das Album erreichte Platz eins der Charts in Großbritannien und in Australien, in den USA Platz 25. 1980 gewann die Band für das Titelstück den Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Das Magazin Rolling Stone setzte das Album auf Platz 369 seiner 500 besten Alben aller Zeiten.

Reggatta de Blanc is the second album by The Police, released in 1979. It features the band's first two number 1 hits, "Message in a Bottle" and "Walking on the Moon".

Reggatta de Blanc took four weeks to record, spaced over several months. Unlike its successor, Zenyatta Mondatta, there was no pressure on the band. Stewart Copeland described it, "We just went into the studio and said, 'Right, who's got the first song?' We hadn't even rehearsed them before we went in."

Against the wishes of A&M, who had wanted to equip the promising band with a bigger studio and more famous producer, the Police opted to again record at Surrey Sound with Nigel Gray. The small budget (between £6,000 and £9,000) was easily covered by the profits of their previous album, Outlandos d'Amour, further ensuring that the record label would have no control over the actual creation of the band's music.

Whereas Outlandos d'Amour had benefited from one of the most prolific songwriting periods of Sting's life, the recording sessions for Reggatta de Blanc were so short on new material that the band even considered re-recording "Fall Out" at one point. To fill in the gaps, Sting and Copeland dug up old songs they'd written and used elements of them to create new songs. Much of the lyrics to "Bring on the Night" were recycled from Sting's Last Exit song "Carrion Prince (O Ye of Little Hope)", and "The Bed's Too Big Without You" similarly started as a Last Exit tune, while "Does Everyone Stare" originates from a piano piece Copeland wrote in college.

The album's title is a pseudo-French translation of "white reggae".

Reggatta De Blanc fue el segundo álbum de la banda británica The Police. La traducción al español del título del disco sería "reggae de blancos".

La importancia del álbum, radica en que The Police demostró ser una banda integrada por tres excelsos músicos con diversas escuelas musicales fusionadas para un fin común. Incluye temas considerados como verdaderas “obras de arte” dentro de la carrera musical del grupo.

Reggatta De Blanc, es considerado el mejor álbum "New Wave" de la historia, junto con el álbum London Calling de The Clash.

El álbum fue grabado en consola de 24 canales en los estudios "Surrey Sound Studios". Y como bien lo indica su título, tiene una fuerte influencia del reggae particularmente expresado en varios temas como en "Walking On The Moon", que luego fue lanzado como sencillo y llegó al primer puesto en el UK singles chart.

El disco tiene otro impresionante sencillo que llegó al número uno en el chart británico: "Message In A Bottle". Otros temas que destacaron fueron: "Reggatta De Blanc" que recibió el premio Grammy en 1981 a mejor interpretación instrumental. "Deathwish" emotiva canción New Wave; "Bring On The Night", una canción que trata sobre la ejecución de Gary Gilmore. Así como, "It's Alright For You" que muestra plenamente la influencia Punk en la música de The Police. Y por último, la candente "The Bed's Too Big Without You", impecable fusión de Reggae y gran aportación policiaca al mundo del rock.

En cuanto a la estructura y composición de las canciones, es el disco de The Police en donde mejor participan sus tres integrantes de forma equitativa y brillante. Podemos escuchar a un Sting con gran voz y ejecución del bajo; a un Stewart Copeland con una batería mágica, fenomenal y bestial (su mejor trabajo de estudio con la banda) y a un Andy Summers con una guitarra "atrevida y rockera" (como en el primer álbum "Outlandos d' Amour"), no tan "atmosférica".


Reggatta De Blanc, es considerado por los fanáticos police; como el mejor álbum de estudio de la banda.

Reggatta de Blanc est le deuxième album de The Police, sorti en 1979.

Cet album est sorti le 5 octobre 1979 et a été produit par le groupe et Nigel Gray. Il entre directement à la première place des charts britanniques et atteint la 25e place du Billboard 200.

Le titre Reggatta De Blanc a reçu un Grammy Award dans la catégorie « meilleure performance instrumentale rock » lors de la 23e édition des Grammy en 1980.

Avec cet album, Sting a été élu meilleur chanteur de l'année 1979 par le New Musical Express.

Mentre Outlandos D'Amour fece conoscere al mondo il trio, Regatta de Blanc del 1979 contribuì a confermare i Police come star. Spesso considerato il miglior album di Sting, Stuart Copeland e Andy Summers, Regatta... è più atmosferico del debutto della band, meno punk e più controllato.

Questo secondo album è l'SOS della band al mondo, con il singolo ''Message in a Bottle'' che riceve il suo riscontro, occupando il primo posto della classifica britannica per quattro settimane. La chitarra arpeggiata e flangiata, marchio di fabbrica di Summers, apre il brano e l'album e si intreccia con facilità all'immaginario tagliente di Sting.

''Message...'' non è l'unico trionfo commerciale dell'album. ''Walking On The Moon'' mescola ritmi reggae con i testi schietti e sobri in cui i Police eccellono. Anche questa canzone è arrivata al primo posto.

Altri ritmi dub seguono in ''The Bed's Too Big Without You'', ma questa volta con un effetto più soporifero. Riporta la dolcezza nell'album (e in seguito è stata coverizzata dalla cantante reggae Sheila Hilton nel 1981). Ricorda cosa significhi sentire la mancanza di un partner.

Ma a volte i ragazzi si distaccano dalle loro influenze reggae. Quello che si ottiene ascoltando la title track è un miscuglio di world music - una frenesia indefinibile senza parole che suona come se i ragazzi si stessero divertendo e che finisce troppo presto.

Come sempre, i testi di Sting sono molto più profondi di quanto sembrino. La sua voce strozzata e le chitarre echeggianti di "Bring On The Night" incarnano il desiderio di un uomo di giungere alla fine del suo tempo. Il verso "The evening spreads itself against the sky" (La sera si stende contro il cielo) è inconsapevolmente tratto da "The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock" (Il canto d'amore di J. Alfred Prufrock) di TS Eliot, una poesia che tratta a sua volta di frustrazione e alienazione.

Tre brani di Copeland, ''Does Everyone Stare'', ''Contact'' e ''On Any Other Day'', si distinguono per la loro discordanza e il loro umorismo nero. I primi due si concentrano sullo spazio che esiste tra gli individui, mentre lo stesso batterista si occupa della voce in "On Any Other Day", un'interpretazione umoristica della crisi di mezza età.

Regatta de Blanc non poteva che venire dopo Outlandos D'Amour. I valori di produzione sono più alti, più intricati e alcune musiche sono più adulte - incorporando influenze di world music e jazz, oltre che di reggae e roots.

Reggatta de Blanc é o segundo álbum de estúdio, lançado em 1979, da banda britânica The Police.

Nesse álbum fica mais evidente a influência do reggae jamaicano em fusão com o punk rock e a new wave, inclusive no próprio título. Reggatta de Blanc significa Reggae de branco.

"Message in a Bottle" is a song by English rock band The Police. It was released as the lead single from their second studio album, Reggatta de Blanc (1979). Written by the band's lead singer and bassist Sting, the song is ostensibly about a story of a castaway on an island, who sends out a message in a bottle to seek love. A year later, he has not received any sort of response, and despairs, thinking he is destined to be alone. The next day, he sees "a hundred billion bottles" on the shore, finding out that there are more people like him out there.

The song was the first of their five UK number one singles. Rolling Stone ranked it number 65 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time".

According to the band's guitarist, Andy Summers, the guitar riff that "Message in a Bottle" is centred around was originally used for a different song. During the band's first American tour, however, he reworked the song and slightly altered the riff, becoming the final version of the song. In addition to the core riff, Summers came up with, as Sting described, "lovely arpeggiated shiver" during the break prior to the third verse. Sting praised this addition saying, "He'd  do that – the song would be quite raw and he'd just add these lovely colours." The song was recorded at Surrey Sound Studios as part of the Reggatta de Blanc sessions. Stewart Copeland's drumming, praised as his "finest drum track" by Summers, was "overdubbed  about six different parts."

The Police debuted the song on live television on the BBC's Rock Goes to College, filmed at Hatfield Polytechnic College in Hertfordshire, England. The Police donated all money earned from the show to the school.

The song was released as the first single from Reggatta de Blanc in September 1979. The song was a massive success in Britain, becoming The Police's first number one hit in the UK Singles Chart. The song also topped the charts in Ireland and reached Number 5 in Australia. Despite its popularity in the UK, the single only reached number 74 in the United States. An alternative "classic rock" mix is available on Every Breath You Take: The Classics.

The song's B-side, "Landlord," was written by Sting (lyrics) and Copeland (music). Sting said of its inspiration, "I wrote that after Frances and I were thrown out of the house we were renting in London. I hated the idea of somebody fucking my life up like that. Stewart  wrote the music." The song originally featured lyrics by Copeland, but they were replaced by Sting's.

"Message in a Bottle" is also a personal favourite of the members of the band. In addition to saying it was his favourite song in an interview with Jools Holland of the BBC, Sting described it as a "good song," and also said that he was "very proud" of it. Copeland said it was "one of our  best moments in the studio and always great on stage." Summers described the track as a personal favourite in his book One Train Later, and said, "For me, it's still the best song Sting ever came up with and the best Police track."

'Message in a Bottle' is a good song. That can move me. I like the idea that while it's about loneliness and alienation it's also about finding solace and other people going through the same thing. The guy's on a desert island and throws a bottle out to sea saying he's alone and all these millions of bottles come back saying, So what So am I! I like the fact that the whole deal is clinched by the third verse. It makes a journey.

— Sting, Q, 11/1993
The Police performed at Live Earth, a 2007 charity concert to raise awareness of global warming and other environmental hazards, and performed "Message in a Bottle" as the US finale, with John Mayer playing guitar with Andy Summers and Kanye West performing a rap verse over the chorus of the song.

The song exemplifies the reggae/post-punk style of early Police. It is composed in the key of C ♯ minor with a chord progression of C#m9-Amaj9-B7-F#m. The song's structure is verse-chorus-verse-chorus-outro.

"Love can mend your life but love can break your heart."