What is Ghost in the Machine (album)?
{{Infobox album | name = Ghost in the Machine | type = studio | artist = [[The Police]] | cover = | alt = | released = {{start date|1981|10|02|df=yes}} | recorded = June–July 1981<ref>[[Andy Summers|Summers, Andy]] (2007). ''One Train Later'', 2nd Edition (Piatkus), page 380.</ref> | studio = {{hlist|[[Associated Independent Recording#AIR Montserrat (1979–1989)|AIR]] ([[Montserrat]])|[[Le Studio]] (Quebec)}} | genre = {{hlist|[[New wave music|New wave]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/j66j-2020/03/dab97c695a9775/80-greatest-albums-of-the-1980s-by-rock-and-roll-hall-of-famers.html |title=The 80 greatest albums of the 1980s by Rock Hall Inductees |website=[[Cleveland.com]] |date=19 March 2020 |access-date=27 November 2020 |last=Smith |first=Troy L.}}</ref>||[[avant-pop]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/9/music/what-is-avant-pop |title=What is Avant-Pop? |magazine=[[The Brooklyn Rail]] |date=September 2007 |access-date=19 July 2017 |last=Grimstad |first=Paul}}</ref>}} [[reggae rock]] | length = 41:03 | language = {{hlist|English|French}} | label = [[A&M Records|A&M]] | producer = {{hlist|The Police|[[Hugh Padgham]]}} | prev_title = [[Zenyatta Mondatta]] | prev_year = 1980 | next_title = [[Synchronicity (The Police album)|Synchronicity]] | next_year = 1983 | misc = {{Singles | name = Ghost in the Machine | type = studio | single1 = [[Invisible Sun]] | single1date = 25 September 1981 | single2 = [[Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic]] | single2date = 2 November 1981 | single3 = [[Spirits in the Material World]] | single3date = 11 December 1981 | single4 = [[Secret Journey (song)|Secret Journey]] | single4date = May 1982 }} }} '''''Ghost in the Machine''''' is the fourth studio album by English band [[The Police]]. It was released on 2 October 1981 through [[A&M Records]]. It went to number 1 in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and Italy,