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The Police created and explored a sphere of music on the far side of Post Punk, New Wave, and Reggae. In their three individual, and individualistic, memoirs, Stewart, Sting, and Andy explore their past. Here are some reflections on what they have in common, and what sets them apart as storytellers, as well as contributors to their unique signature sound.
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When the Police bowed to a frenzied crowd and packed up their gear after their last concert at Madison Square Garden, on 7 August , everyone knew that the band was history.
Before their reunion tour in /8, they had already written history, but there had always been a slight chance that Sting (vocals, bass), Stewart Copeland (drums), and Andy Summers (guitar) could restart the band; a band that Sting called, in the documentary Better Than Therapy, a “sort of cock-eyed machine”.
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The sonic emanations of that cock-eyed machine were the first music that I was completely mesmerized by as a child. I was born in and must have been six or seven when I heard the galactic reggae chops of Walking On The Moon reverberating from a transistor radio on an Adriatic beach. I was transfixed and changed forever. It was the first music I heard that gave me the impression that it
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• The Police was a rock band which formed in in London, England. The band consisted of Sting (vocals, bass), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums). The band released five albums – "Outlandos d'Amour" (), "Reggatta de Blanc" (), "Zenyatta Mondatta" (), "Ghost in the Machine" () and "Synchronicity" () – before entering a hiatus in and ultimately disbanding in The band reunited in January for a reunion tour that lasted until August Biography The Police formed in early in London by Stewart Copeland (drums), Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting (bass and lead vocals), and Henry Padovani (guitar). Andy Summers later joined the group, and after a very short stint as a quartet, Padovani left the band. The Police became one of the most popular bands in the late 70s and throughout the 80s. The Police are notable as one of the first mainstream white pop groups to adopt reggae as a predominant musical form and to score major international hits with reggae-styled material. (The first all-white reggae band with permanent members and frequent recording in Europe was Peps Blodsband, lead by Peps Persson from south Sweden who changed from blues to reggae /75). Although reggae was already very popular in the |