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“So Lonely” is a song by The Police, appearing on the 1978 studio album Outlandos d’Amour and released as a single in November 1978 and again in February 1980 as a re-release. The single didn’t chart on the first occasion but reached number 6 with its second release. The other singles from Outlandos D’Amour, “Roxanne” and “Can’t Stand Losing You”, followed a similar pattern of not charting very high in 1978, but doing very well on a re-release. Sting has admitted that he used Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” as the basis for this song: Sting recycled the lyrics in the song’s verses from his earlier Last Exit song “Fool in Love”. The video for the song depicts the band walking around the streets of Hong Kong and on the subway trains of Tokyo in... Read on...