# Don't Box Me In

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"**Don't Box Me In**" is a collaboration between [the Police](/source/The_Police_(band)) drummer [Stewart Copeland](/source/Stewart_Copeland) and former [Wall of Voodoo](/source/Wall_of_Voodoo) vocalist [Stan Ridgway](/source/Stan_Ridgway), recorded as part of the soundtrack for the [Francis Ford Coppola](/source/Francis_Ford_Coppola) movie *[Rumble Fish](/source/Rumble_Fish)* and subsequently released as a [single](/source/Single_(music)). Copeland plays guitar, drums, bass and keyboards, and Ridgway sings and plays harmonica.

A music video for the song directed by [Howard Deutch](/source/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](/source/MTV). The song peaked at No. 91 in the UK singles chart in 1984.

## Chart positions

Chart (1984) Peak position

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