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Bruno Mars knows his single sounds like The Police thank you very much

  • October 18, 2012
  • Darren Sharp

'Liquor Store Blues' hitmaker Bruno Mars doesn't care if you think his new single 'Locked Out Of Heaven' sounds like the Police.

"Hell yeah! You try to write a Police song!" he told MTV. "I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up per­form­ing in bars, singing Police songs."

He continued: "I remember per­form­ing a song like 'Roxanne,' and you play those first couple of chords, and you hit that first note, and you watch the whole bar ignite. And as an artist, as a song­writer, it's like, 'Man, I want to write a song that makes people's eyes explode the first chord!'"

'Makes people's eyes explode'.

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