‘A nasty little song, really rather evil’: how Every Breath You Take tore Sting and the Police apart | Music | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/15/every-breath-you-take-royalties-dispute-sting-the-police-stewart-copeland-andy-summers

’... “It was crap until I played on it,” he said in 2016. Responding to a demo version played by Sting over organ chords, Summers came up with the arpeggiated guitar riff, he said later, as a way of “keeping those other bastards happy. That song was going to be thrown out. ...’