"Message in a Bottle" is a 1979 song by English rock band The Police, from their second album, Reggatta de Blanc. Written by Sting; the song is ostensibly about a story of a castaway on an island, who sends out a message in a bottle to seek love. A year later, he has not received any sort of response, and despairs, thinking he is destined to be alone. The next day, he sees "a hundred billion bottles" on the shore, finding out that there are more people like him out there. Rolling Stone ranked it number 65 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time".