"Walking on the Moon" is a 1979 song by The Police, from their second album, Reggatta de Blanc. The song was The Police's second number one hit single in the United Kingdom after "Message in a Bottle", but didn't chart in the United States. It is one of The Police's more reggae-influenced songs. According to Sting the song is about the feeling of being in love. Sting said that he wrote the song when he was drunk: I was drunk in a hotel room in Munich, slumped on the bed with the whirling pit when this riff came into my head. I got up and starting walking round the room singing : "Walking round the room, walking round the room". The Police are a three-piece rock band consisting of Sting (vocals; bass guitar); Andy Summers (guitar; vocals) and Stewart Copeland (drums; percussion; vocals). The band became globally popular in the early 1980s; playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz; rock.
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