<P> "Don't Stand So Close to Me" is a hit song by the British rock band The Police, released in September 1980 as the lead single from their third album Zenyatta Mondatta . It concerns a schoolgirl's crush on her teacher which leads to an affair, which in turn is discovered . </P> <P> The band's third number one on the UK Singles Chart, it was also the best selling single of 1980 in the UK . The song also charted in the top ten in Australia, Canada and the US . The Police won the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for this song . </P> <P> The music and lyrics of the song were written by the lead singer of The Police, Sting . The song deals with the mixed feelings of lust, fear and guilt that a female student has for a school teacher and vice versa, and inappropriateness leading to confrontation which is unravelled later on in the song . The line "Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov" alludes to Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, which covers somewhat similar issues . After being criticised for rhyming "cough" with "Nabokov," Sting replied, "I've used that terrible, terrible rhyme technique a few times . Technically, it's called a feminine rhyme--where it's so appalling it's almost humorous . You don't normally get those type of rhymes in pop music and I'm glad!" </P> <P> Before joining The Police, Sting had previously worked as an English teacher . Sting said of the song in 1981: </P>

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