{"id":70142,"date":"2026-04-09T06:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/70142\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:11:10","slug":"lhistoire-de-roxanne-le-tube-qui-propulsa-le-groupe-au-sommet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/70142\/","title":{"rendered":"l\u2019histoire de \u00ab\u00a0Roxanne\u00a0\u00bb, le tube qui propulsa le groupe au sommet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorti le 7 avril 1978, \u00ab\u00a0Roxanne\u00a0\u00bb reste l\u2019un des titres les plus embl\u00e9matiques de The Police, entre audace musicale et histoire inspir\u00e9e des rues de Paris.<\/p>\n

Lorsque\u00a0The Police<\/a> d\u00e9voile \u00ab\u00a0Roxanne\u00a0\u00bb en 1978, le trio compos\u00e9 de Sting<\/a>, Andy Summers et Stewart Copeland<\/a> impose imm\u00e9diatement une identit\u00e9 singuli\u00e8re. \u00c0 contre-courant du punk dominant de l\u2019\u00e9poque, le groupe m\u00eale influences reggae, rythmes atypiques.<\/p>\n

Derri\u00e8re sa m\u00e9lodie accrocheuse, \u00ab\u00a0Roxanne\u00a0\u00bb raconte une histoire sombre et poignante. \u00c9crite par Sting<\/a>, la chanson \u00e9voque l\u2019amour d\u2019un homme pour une prostitu\u00e9e qu\u2019il tente de convaincre de changer de vie. Le texte s\u2019inspire directement d\u2019un s\u00e9jour parisien du groupe en 1977, o\u00f9 le chanteur observe la vie nocturne autour de son h\u00f4tel. Le pr\u00e9nom Roxanne, lui, est emprunt\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00e9ro\u00efne de Cyrano de Bergerac.<\/p>\n

Musicalement,\u00a0le morceau surprend aussi : Sting<\/a> consid\u00e9rait le morceau comme une sorte de bossa nova, un genre musical originaire du Br\u00e9sil. Le frontman du groupe attribua au batteur Stewart Copeland la cr\u00e9ation de la rythmique du morceau, tr\u00e8s proche d\u2019un tango. Le bruit soudain du piano et le rire juste avant le premier couplet sont en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 le r\u00e9sultat d\u2019une erreur : Sting s\u2019\u00e9tait assis par inadvertance sur un clavier dans le studio d\u2019enregistrement !<\/p>\n

Jug\u00e9 trop sulfureux \u00e0 sa sortie, le titre est boud\u00e9 par la BBC, une pol\u00e9mique qui contribue paradoxalement \u00e0 faire conna\u00eetre la musique et The Police<\/a>. Avec le temps, \u00ab\u00a0Roxanne\u00a0\u00bb s\u2019impose comme un classique absolu du rock, revisit\u00e9 notamment dans le film \u00ab\u00a0Moulin Rouge\u00a0\u00bb en version tango. Des d\u00e9cennies plus tard, il incarne toujours l\u2019audace et la libert\u00e9 artistique d\u2019un groupe qui n\u2019a jamais voulu rentrer dans les cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sorti le 7 avril 1978, \u00ab\u00a0Roxanne\u00a0\u00bb reste l\u2019un des titres les plus embl\u00e9matiques de The Police, entre audace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[141,10,12,13,18,17,133,536,96,528,526,531,95,532,535,140,533,529,539,527,107,108,537,538,540,530,525,534,541,375,230,522,524,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-70142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-musique","8":"tag-actu","9":"tag-actualites","10":"tag-be","11":"tag-be-fr","12":"tag-belgique","13":"tag-belgium","14":"tag-cinema","15":"tag-dab","16":"tag-divertissement","17":"tag-ecoute","18":"tag-electro","19":"tag-emission","20":"tag-entertainment","21":"tag-equipe","22":"tag-fm","23":"tag-info","24":"tag-information","25":"tag-infos","26":"tag-interviews-rock","27":"tag-journal","28":"tag-music","29":"tag-musique","30":"tag-musique-rock","31":"tag-nouveautes-rock","32":"tag-playlists-rock","33":"tag-podcast","34":"tag-radio","35":"tag-radio-en-ligne","36":"tag-radio-rock","37":"tag-rock","38":"tag-station","39":"tag-virgin","40":"tag-virgin-radio","41":"tag-virginradio"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be_fr\/116373270354896800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}