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The Police
- For other uses, please see The Police (disambiguation)
| The Police | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin: | London, England |
| Years active: | - Reunions: , , - |
| Label(s): | Illegal Records, A&M Records, Polydor |
| Associated acts: | Last Exit, Curved Air, Strontium 90, Animal Logic, Oysterhead, Gizmo |
| Website: | |
| Members | |
| Stewart Copeland Sting Andy Summers | |
| Former members | |
| Henry Padovani | |
Early years (–)
- It's ,
- and this thing called punk rock
- has just raised its ugly head in London.
- Sting, Henry Padovani, and I
- have formed a group called: The Police.
- - Stewart Copeland, Strange Things Happen
The Police were the brainchild of drummer Stewart Copeland, who by the end of saw that the progressive rock scene of excess in music and budget, as typified by his current group Curved Air, was dying. Copeland believed that the future lay in the growing punk scene and determined that he should form such a group himself, even having a name for it (The Police) before having recruited any other members.
On , Curved Air performed one of their last concerts at Newcastle Polytechnic and Copeland was then taken by friend Phil Sutcliffe] to see one of Phil's favored bands, Last Exit, perform at St. Mary
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Biography
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FOR THE RECORD
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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.
(Simon Schreyer, )
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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