Don't Box Me In

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"Don't Box Me In"
Single by Stewart Copeland & Stan Ridgway
from the album Rumble Fish (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
B-side"Drama at Home"
Released1983 (1983)
GenreNew wave
Length4:10
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Stewart Copeland, Stan Ridgway
Producer(s)Stewart Copeland
Stewart Copeland singles chronology
"Rich in a Ditch"
(1980)
"Don't Box Me In"
(1983)
"Koteja"
(1985)
Stan Ridgway singles chronology
"Don't Box Me In"
(1983)
"The Big Heat"
(1985)

"Don't Box Me In" is a collaboration between the Police drummer Stewart Copeland and former Wall of Voodoo vocalist Stan Ridgway, recorded as part of the soundtrack for the Francis Ford Coppola movie Rumble Fish and subsequently released as a single. Copeland plays guitar, drums, bass and keyboards, and Ridgway sings and plays harmonica. A music video for the song directed by Howard Deutch, where footage from Rumble Fish is interspersed with black and white images of Ridgway and Copeland in the studio, received significant airplay on MTV. The song peaked at #91 in the UK singles chart in 1983.

Chart positions[edit]

Chart (1983) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart[1] 91

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Stewart Copeland And Stan Ridgway – Don't Box Me In". officialcharts.com. Retrieved October 4, 2012.