I had up until say 2.5 years ago always played guitar with a pick. This song inspired me to start playing with fingers and I can now just about "keep up" with the finger picking part. I practice the finger picking to this song for about a minute every day and I slowly get faster. To me this song is at least 3 songs in one song - the classical minor sounding finger picking part*, the reggae part, the bass line which is also classic IMHO, and of course the rock type solo that Andy Summers does
The band's cover was awesome!
*When I first started learning this song & since I could not do the finger-picking, I turned on my chorus pedal and I strummed the chords that you would otherwise finger pick. It actually sounds pretty good and soothing.