Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Synchronicity became the swansong record for the trio of Sting, drummer ...

Many synchronicities seem unique to the person experiencing them. Is their unique-seeming coincidence also rare among the broad range of meaningful coincidences? Or are some of them like black swans ...

If albums were tarot cards, Synchronicity by the Police would be an incredibly complex deck. It started out simply enough on paper. As they had done with 1981's Ghost in the Machine, the English group ...

In 1983, sometime between the M*A*S*H finale, the shock of seeing Darth Vader’s face, and the Cabbage Patch Riots, the Police issued the year’s music blockbuster. The trio’s fifth and final album, ...

The Police sold millions of copies of Synchronicity, but the cash registers continued to ring long after fans purchased the band's fifth and final album. This meant the marketplace was flooded with ...