The Police - Can’t Stand Losing You • TopPop

“Can’t Stand Losing You“ is a song by English rock band The Police, taken from their debut album ’Outlandos d’Amour’ in 1978 and written by Sting, Police’s singer and bassplayer. It was the follow-up single to “Roxanne“, their first big hit. It reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart in 1979. The Police were a British band, extremely popular in the late 70s and early 80s. With Sting (nickname of Gordon Sumner) as lead singer, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland, the 3 men had their first two hits in 1979: ’So Lonely’ (which reached number 31 in the Dutch Top 40) and ’Roxanne’ (which reached 21). In the same year, they broke through with ’Can’t Stand Losing You’ ( number 9), followed by ’Message In A Bottle’ (which even peaked at number 2). The fifth Police hit, ’Walking On The Moon’ released at the end of that year, then made it to the top 10 at the beginning of 1980 by staying for two weeks on 9. This clip was first broadcast on Toppop on 13 September 1979 Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.