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16 May 2023, 10:27

By Thomas Curtis-Horsfall

The internal fighting which led to The Police's eventual break up was well-documented.

In 1984, the new wave trio were arguably the biggest band in the world, but would call it quits that year.

Throughout their seven-year career together as The Police , creative tensions between bassist and singer Sting , drummer Stewart Copeland , and guitarist Andy Summers would frequently boil over.

When they disagreed, not only did they have a difference of opinion, sometimes they'd even come to blows in physical altercations.

So once they'd reached the peak of their powers together as a band, all three members decided to go their separate ways.

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That was until their reunion in 2007 when they toured the world as The Police once again, in what became the third-highest-grossing tour of all time (at the time).

Not only was it a huge commercial success, their tour also courted enormous critical praise, leaving the door open for another potential coming together.

Steward Copeland recently revealed in his interview with Smooth Radio that despite "a lot of the tension" they shared, the trio are now back on good terms once again.

Sting has followed up with his own new interview in Music Week however, pouring cold water on rumours of a future reunion.

When asked if he thought bands should reunite ever, he laughed: "Once!" before going on to explain that bands "should do it once and the timing should be right."

"When the Police reunited, it had been long enough and it was the right time to do it. And I'm taking credit for that because that was my decision" Sting continued.

"Doing it again would just be gratuitous and that won't happen. But we did it, and everyone was happy that Mum and Dad got back together again and had one last fling."

The ' Fields Of Gold ' singer also agreed with Copeland's assessment of why tensions between the three bandmates opening reached explosive levels.

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"It's an intense relationship. You start out in a band together and you live together; you sleep in the van together; you share hotel rooms. Your life is completely welded with the other guys in the band, and that's intense."

"We still love each other and respect each other, but I'm happy not to be in a band. I have much more freedom and when I have my own band, everyone's role is very clear. We just get on with the job."

"When a young band starts out, the roles are much more flexible and that creates tensions. But it's all-natural, of course...I think it gives you a competitive energy, a buzz."

Sting was also fairly candid about how his ego affected how the band began to perform together, and feels it right to stay as separate entities.

"There comes a point where it just gets in the way of the creative process and you're dealing with ego as opposed to actual musical ideas or the currency of musical ideas. When the flow stops, that's when a band has to break up."

Sting went on to confirm that he, Copeland and Summer hadn't considered writing more songs together, saying: "It was – what's the word – nostalgia, with recreating that thing for a short time. No, we didn’t even try."

Stewart Copeland seemed more positive about a full-scale reunion during his Smooth Radio interview however, saying: "Hey, look, I'm optimistic. I would give us at least a 1% chance."

"You know, we are enjoying each other's company. We get along really well. In fact, even when we were screaming at each other in the studio over dinner, we'd be laughing and joking. And we were deeply bonded."

"We went through a lot together, and we are like siblings, deeply bonded. And it's nice like this" Copeland told Smooth's very own Jenni Falconer .

"And I'm enjoying in fact, we have laughed amongst ourselves. We're in touch by email and so on. We send each other daft Instagram clips and so on."

At least the trio are back on good terms, but it doesn't look like they'll be hitting the road or the studio together any time soon.

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The Police announce plans for reunion tour

The Police announced their first tour in decades Monday at a rehearsal at the Whisky a Go-Go as a throng of fans crowded near the legendary Sunset Strip nightclub.

The group, which led off Sunday night’s Grammy Awards with a live performance, broke up in 1984. Members Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland have since pursued individual careers.

The packed club got a taste of Police hits, “Roxanne” and “Message in a Bottle,” and listened to the members talk about the decision to reunite and joke about the conflicts that led to their split.

“I woke up one morning about three months ago — and this light bulb went off in my head. ... I’m going to call Andy and Stewart,” Sting said. “What’s happening is sort of very healing.”

His bandmates kidded about Sting’s demanding personality.

“We refer to Sting as our dear leader,” Copeland said.

“On a good day,” Summers added.

They insisted the disputes that broke them up were artistic, not personal.

The Police plan a world tour of arenas, stadiums and some festivals beginning in North America on May 28 in Vancouver, moving to Europe in September and October, then re-crossing the Atlantic.

Some confirmed cities include New York, Boston, Seattle, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Dallas, New Orleans, St. Louis, Toronto and Montreal. The group will headline the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee.

“It’s going to be three guys on stage, that’s all,” Sting said. “The show is going to look simple but spectacular.”

The group plans to stick to Police material and not include Sting’s solo hits.

They sidestepped questions about whether the reunion might extend to recording new music.

Tickets for the North American leg will range from $50 to $225. A portion of proceeds will go to WaterAid, an anti-poverty organization that seeks to provide poor people access to safe water.

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Showtime Classic: The Police Reunion Tour

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• February 3, 2021

The Police at Madison Square Garden, NYC, Aug. 2007. The tour ranks as #16 among the top tours from 2000 to 2020. Photo Credit: Lionel Urman/Wikipedia

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Launched in May 2007, The Police Reunion Tour featured the original band members Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers marking 30 years since they first formed the band in 1977. The trio performed 151 shows before the tour wrapped in Aug. 2008.

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Sting Regrets Emotion of Police Reunion Tour

Sting says he wouldn't have taken part in the Police reunion tour of 2007 and 2008 if he’d known how he was going to feel at the end.

The road trip with Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland was well-received and became one of the highest-grossing tours of the time. But the frontman recently told Reader’s Digest (via MusicNews.com ) that he hadn’t predicted how it would finish up.

“At the time I labelled the tour an exercise in nostalgia,” Sting said. “That was simply how I felt and is still how I feel today. I think it’s OK to be honest about your feelings and that was the way it went for me.” He added: “That’s not a slight on the people I was with or the way things panned out, it’s just how I saw it by the end, and let’s be honest, that’s not how I wanted to remember it. If I thought that would be the emotion I’d be leaving with, I wouldn’t have done it in the first place.”

He said he preferred the freedom of being a solo artist, continuing: “It’s not a power thing at all, it’s just about producing exactly the brand and style of music that feels right for you. Music, in every form, is a collaborative process, but never more so than in a band, where you have to consider other people almost more than you do yourself.”

In 2019 drummer Copeland said that, while he and his bandmates had enjoyed the tour, no one felt the need to regroup for another. “Right now it's just so great to hang with my buddies, who are like brothers, without clouding it with the issue," he explained. "The issue is that although we're very proud of the music we made and very proud of the impact of the band, it was very difficult. The music each of us makes in our own world now is very wonderful and rewarding. We know that when we go in that rehearsal room together we're going to start screaming at each other again, and I'd rather laugh.”

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Sting Wanted More Than 'Nostalgia' Out Of The Police Reunion

By Andrew Magnotta @AndrewMagnotta

March 22, 2021

Sting says he wouldn't have taken part in the 2007-08 reunion tour with The Police if he knew that all he'd get out of it would be nostalgia.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer admitted that he more or less got what he expected, but 15 months of looking back on the good ol' days with bandmates Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers left him unfulfilled.

“At the time I labelled the tour an exercise in nostalgia," he told Reader's Digest . "That was simply how I felt and is still how I feel today. I think it’s OK to be honest about your feelings and that was the way it went for me."

He continued: "That's not a slight on the people I was with or the way things panned out, it’s just how I saw it by the end, and let’s be honest, that’s not how I wanted to remember it.

“If I thought that would be the emotion I’d be leaving with, I wouldn’t have done it in the first place.”

Speaking of his solo career, Sting elaborated on his philosophy as an artist. He says he revels in the "total freedom" of being a solo act, where he can make "exactly the brand and style of music that feels right."

“Music, in every form, is a collaborative process, but never more so than in a band, where you have to consider other people almost more than you do yourself," he said. “To have total career freedom is, for me, the ultimate thrill of being a solo artist.”

Copeland and Summers have also released a wealth of solo work in the years since the Police's initial breakup. The trio remain in touch, though there's little interest in another go-around as a band.

Copeland noted in 2019 that the three are happier together as friends than as bandmates.

"We know that when we go into that rehearsal room together we're going to start screaming at each other again, and I'd rather laugh," he said."

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2007-2008 Reunion Tour

Between 2007-05-27 and 2008-08-07 , The Police took part in the 2007-2008 Reunion Tour .

• 1 Introduction
• 2.1 Touring musicians and band members
• 2.2 Road crew and technicians
• 2.3 Production crew
• 3 Charities supported
• 4 Corporate sponsorships
• 5 Support act(s)
• 6.1 Notable performances
• 6.2 Summary of tour dates
• 6.3 Canceled & rescheduled dates
• 7 Quotations and trivia
• 8 Tour passes
• 9 Tour itineraries
• 10 Tour posters
• 11 See also
• 12.1 The ever-changing finale
• 12.2 Finale ticketing shenanigans
• 12.3 Environmental concerns
• 13 External links
• 14 References

Introduction

A reunion tour for The Police had long been the hope and wish of many fans of the band since their last public performances together in 1986 . After many rumors and speculation about the possibility of concert appearances in 2007 , given the year would mark the band's 30th anniversary, the reunion tour was officially announced on 2007-02-12 during a world-wide live broadcast on television and the internet.

Rehearsals for the tour had begun in January of 2007 in Vancouver, Canada, and then resumed in March of 2007 at Sting 's studio at Il Palagio in Tuscany. Further rehearsals in Vancouver began in May of 2007 at the Squamish Indian reserve before the tour opened on 2007-05-27 with a Fan Club-only show.

Tour personnel

Touring musicians and band members.

• Stewart Copeland - drums, percussion
• Sting - bass guitar, vocals
• Andy Summers - guitars

Road crew and technicians

• Dan Dearnley - guitar tech
• Danny Quatrochi - guitar tech
• Jeff Seitz - drum tech
• Dennis Smith - guitar tech

Production crew

Charities supported, corporate sponsorships.

• Best Buy (North American tour sponsor, 2007 )
• Citibank (North American tour sponsor, 2008 )

Support act(s)

A number of different support acts were involved in the 2007-2008 Reunion Tour including

• The Charlatans
• Fergie ( 2008 Australia and New Zealand shows)
• Fiction Plane
• Elvis Costello & the Imposters
• The Fratellis
• James Morrison ( 2008-06-08 and 2008-06-10 )

Support acts that appeared for single concert events:

• Foo Fighters ( 2007-06-16 )
• Counting Crows ( 2008-06-26 )
• Maximo Park
• La Notte Della Taranta Ensemble ( 2007-10-02 )
• KT Tunstall ( 2008-06-20 )
• Scouting for Girls ( 2008-06-28 )
• Paolo Nutini ( 2008-07-02 )
• The B-52's ( 2008-08-07 )

Notable performances

Particularly notable dates on the 2007-2008 Reunion Tour included:

• 2007-05-27 - Fan Club Performance
• 2007-05-28 - Opening Night
• 2007-05-30 - "Disaster Gig"
• 2007-07-07 - Live Earth
• 2007-09-05 - Ranking Roger of The Beat performs part of " Roxanne " with The Police
• 2007-09-29 and 2007-09-30 - Henry Padovani performs " Next To You " with The Police
• 2008-02-17 - Fiction Plane 's final performance as opening band for The Police

Summary of tour dates

The 2007-2008 Reunion Tour took part in several legs, as summarized below:

Canceled & rescheduled dates

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Quotations and trivia

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Tour passes

Tour itineraries, tour posters.

• 2007-2008 Reunion Tour musical gear (Stewart Copeland)
• 2007-2008 Reunion Tour musical gear (Sting)
• 2007-2008 Reunion Tour musical gear (Andy Summers)

Controversies and kerfluffles

The ever-changing finale.

• On 2008-02-13 , the dates for the tour's final swing through North America were announced on the Billboard and Fox News websites with "a more or less final date" (Fox News) set for Long Island’s Jones Beach on 2008-08-04 . Fans quickly began to make plans to attend the finale show and buy tickets as soon as they were made available. However, on 2008-03-04 , a second Jones Beach performance date was announced for 2008-08-05 , making this now the last scheduled date for the tour. [1] Many fans were very upset about this announcement, as they felt they had been tricked into buying tickets for the August 4 date on the expectation that it was the last show. Many ThePolice.com members had used their presale codes for the show on August 4, others had made travel arrangements already from other countries to be at the finale, and now felt that the band and/or the tour management had spoiled the end of the tour for them through their "greed". [2] , [3] , [4] In an interview published in the Sun Sentinel on 2008-04-30 , Stewart Copeland acknowledged the controversy surrounding the announcement of the second Jones Beach show. According to Copeland, "Inside the bubble we thought this was a great idea...We would never have guessed (the controversy) or intuited that without the Web." [5]
• On 2008-05-06 , The Police held a press conference in Times Square in New York City with Mayor Michael Bloomberg. They announced that they would be performing their "last concert ever", in the city of New York (date/location to be revealed later), and that it would be a benefit concert for local public broadcasting networks as well as the MillionTreesNYC project. [6] Fan reaction to the news was mixed, with many again expressing discontent that they had, for the second time, been lead to believe an earlier date would be the end of the tour. Concerns were expressed about the ability to resell tickets to the earlier "finale" shows now that a new finale was planned, as well as the difficulty of obtaining tickets to this new show or making extended/new travel plans. [7] , [8] , [9]

Finale ticketing shenanigans

• On 2008-06-05 , a month after the new finale concert was announced, the details were finally revealed on the final concert location, date and ticketing. It would take place on 2008-08-07 at Madison Square Garden . Tickets would be sold through a PBS pledge drive with prices beginning at $150/pair and going up to $5,000 a pair for VIP access. [10] It was later announced that ThePolice.com , Citicard (the corporate sponsor of this leg of the tour), and PBS would all be having presales for their members. Only pairs of tickets could be bought through any of the sales, no singles would be made available. Many fans worked hard through the various presales beginning on 2008-06-09 to get tickets close to and behind the stage (an area known to Stewart Copeland fans as "Stew Heaven" and a particular favorite for drummer aficionados.) There was general disappointment among many members of ThePolice.com who found their presale seats, even at the Legacy membership level, inferior to the PBS presale ones, and no better (and sometimes worse) than the Citicard ones. [11] , [12] , [13]
• On 2008-06-20 , fans reported checking their ticket orders and seeing that their ticket assignments had been changed without their knowledge to much inferior seats within the same price bracket. Even the date of their ticket purchases had been changed from 2008-06-09 and after to 2008-06-18 . All behind-the-stage seats were relocated to the upper 300 level, and some seated on the upper 300 levels were changed to the even higher 400 levels. Fans were completely outraged by this change, which meant that many of the biggest fans of the band who had worked hardest to get good seats were now stuck with some of the worst. Appeals were quickly made to Police HQ at ThePolice.com , Ticketmaster, and Stewart Copeland himself as he is generally perceived as the most fan-responsive member of the band. [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] To date there has been no official acknowledgement of the fan upset over this ticketing change, and the only options offered by Ticketmaster to correct this were refunds or an option to upgrade tickets at an increased price - but those who chose to upgrade would not know their exact seating assignment. There was continued disappointment and confusion after it was discovered in the first week of July that single tickets were now being sold via the Ticketmaster website, again often in better seating areas than had been available earlier and in the presales when single tickets were not allowed. [19]

Environmental concerns

• In January of 2008 , The Police were singled out by environmentalists for the environmental impact of their global tour and named "the dirtiest band in the world". John Buckly, an environmental adviser from www.carbonfootprint.com, stated "At the Live Earth concert in New Jersey where The Police played, the biggest contribution to carbon emissions wasn't from the concert itself, it was the fans...The Police played lots of big stadiums - they need to be careful over where they play, and make sure it's near public transport." Sting in particular was singled out and called a "hypocrite" in the press for being a vocal supporter of green causes while seemingly not backing his words with appropriate action. [20] , [21]
• The criticism would continue into the summer of 2008 over incidents such as Sting taking private jets by himself. [22] , [23]

External links

• The Columbus Dispatch: Band's hits have become mileposts in fans' lives
• Donal Hodgson interview about tour equipment
• The Police Live: North America 2007 . Smart Art Itineraries. Venice, CA. 2007.
• "10.01.07 News" ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 14 Apr. 2008.< http://www.thepolice.com/news/news.php?uid=5475 >
• "03.04.08 News" ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 14 Apr. 2008. < http://www.thepolice.com/news/news.php?uid=5668 >
• "03.27.08 News" ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 14 Apr. 2008. < http://www.thepolice.com/news/news.php?uid=5673 >
• "05.06.08 Mayor Bloomberg and The Police announce contribution to MillionTreesNYC and reveal that their last ever concert will take place in New York City to benefit local public televisions stations..." ThePolice.com. Ultrastar Entertainment LLC. 3 Jul. 2008. < http://www.thepolice.com/news/news.php?uid=5695 >
• "2nd Jones Beach date added!!" policefans.org. 4 Mar. 2008. 3 Jul. 2008 < http://www.policefans.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=424 >
• "and the special announcement on Tuesday is...." stewartcopeland.net. 4 May 2008. 3 Jul. 2008. < http://www.stewartcopeland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6865&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 >
• "Another Jones Beach Show !!!!" stewartcopeland.net. 4 Mar. 2008. 3 Jul. 2008 < http://www.stewartcopeland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6288&highlight=jones+beach >
• "Eco campaigner Sting flies solo on private jet - twice in one day." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers Ltd. 30 Jun, 2008. 3 Jul. 2008 < http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030594/Eco-campaigner-Sting-flies-solo-private-jet--twice-day.html >
• "Hypocrite: Eco-warrior Sting and the Police top list of bands with worst carbon footprint." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers Ltd. Jan. 8 2008. 3 Jul 2008 < http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-506906/Hypocrite-Eco-warrior-Sting-Police-list-bands-worst-carbon-footprint.html >
• "Pete beats sting in greenest bands survey." Metro.co.uk. Associated Newspapers Limited. 8 Jan. 2008. 3 Jul. 2008 < http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=82886&in_page_id=7&in_a_source= >
• "POLICE PRESS RELEASE." ThePolice.com. Ultrastar Entertainment LLC. 6 May 2008. 3 Jul. 2008 < http://www.thepolice.com/members/community/mboard/index.php?topic=10041.0 >
• "Stewart Copeland of the band Police talks about the Internet and touring." Sun-Sentinel.com. 30 Apr. 2008. 3 Jul. 2008. < http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/sfl-0430copeland,0,964818.story >
• "Sting: More Police Tour, Plus Elvis Costello." FOXNews.com. 13 Feb. 2008. FOX News Network, LLC. 3 Jul. 2008. < http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330533,00.html#2 >
• "Summer Run To Be The Police's Final Tour." Billboard.com. 13 Feb. 2008. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 3 Jul. 2008. < http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003710234 >
• ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 13 Apr. 2008. < https://tickets.thepolice.com/index.php?location=na >
• "The Police in NYC 5-6-08." stewartcopeland.net. 5 May 2008. 3 Jul. 2008. < http://www.stewartcopeland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6876 >
• "WHEN Finale #2 added, then. . ." stewartcopeland.net. 25 Feb. 2008. < http://www.stewartcopeland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6183&highlight=jones+beach >
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STING SHEDS LIGHT ON QUITTING AND REUNITING THE POLICE

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Although Sting is hardly a man living in the past, the fact that he constantly reinvents his older Police material keeps the legendary band front and center in the public consciousness. Over 35 years after first going solo with 1985's The Dream Of The Blue Turtles album, Sting still has very specific thoughts about why he decided to break out on his own.

During a new chat with Mojo , he spoke about the prospects in 1984 of heading into the studio to record the followup to the previous year's blockbuster Synchronicity set: “My frustration was I would have written an album’s worth of material but also had to entertain these other songs that were not as good. Explaining to someone why their song isn’t working is a bit like saying their girlfriend’s ugly. It’s a very personal thing. That pain was something I didn’t want to go through any more.”

He went on to say, “I don’t think any grown man can be in a band, actually. A band is a teenage gang. Who wants to be in a teenage gang when you’re knocking 70? It doesn’t allow you to evolve. You have to obey the rules and the gestalt of the band. As much as I love the (Rolling) Stones and AC/DC , it’s hard to see growth in their music. For me, the band was merely a vehicle for the songs and not the other way around.”

Sting was asked if he would've been more willing to keep the Police an ongoing concern had Blue Turtles tanked, and said, “Well, both Andy (Summers) and Stewart (Copeland) had made albums without me so it was my right, too. I recruited a band from the jazz world and I was lucky it was a hit. I have no idea what would have happened if it hadn’t been a hit. Would I have gone back to the band and eaten humble pie? I hope not.”

One of rock's most iconic '80s moments was on June 15th, 1986 when the reunited Police played the Amnesty International benefit at New Jersey's Giants Stadium and passed their instruments to U2 : “I remember the night well. We were all playing for Amnesty. We came off and I handed my bass to Adam (Clayton) : 'Here you go, run with it.' I didn’t feel sad about that at all. I wanted to start again. I wanted to get that feeling we had in the early days when it was us against the world. Admittedly, I had momentum. Whatever I did, people would have been at least curious even if they didn’t like it.”

Regarding the incredibly successful Police reunion tour of 2007 and 2008, Sting remembered, “I’d said no, no, no, no, no on numerous occasions but I thought my timing was impeccable. Any later I think would have been wrong. Any sooner would have been wrong. It was cashing that asset in, saying, 'Let’s do it one more time and see what happens.' It was hugely successful but I wouldn’t do it again. That would be a bridge too far. It was hard because the power struggles were still very apparent, but we got through it and people loved it, they really did.”

Sting shed light on his relationship these days with his Police bandmates: “We always communicate on birthdays. We have separate lives but it’s very cordial. I’m very grateful for those guys and their immense talent, and their patience with me. I love them.”

We recently asked Sting point blank if the Police's 2007-2008 reunion concerts were in fact the band's last: “Yeah, I think so. I think in an exercise in nostalgia it was very successful. It was certainly a successful tour commercially. But is there a need to do it again? I don't think so. I don't think so. I mean, it wasn't the easiest tour I've ever done. Y'know, it was a bit like going back to a dysfunctional marriage in many ways, but as I said, hugely successful. People were very happy to see us playing together again. So I think we covered all the bases there. I don't see the need to do it again.”

We asked Andy Summers if he was frustrated that although the band's global reunion trek was a resounding success, superseding all expectations, the end result of a new Police album never came to fruition: “Y'know, I've been in this scene for a long time ( laughs ). I didn't go in with those expectations knowing the personalities involved. I thought, there's no way. . . Sting will do this tour, but there's no way he's gonna makes a new album and get into that. Because, most of the truth is he's sort of in denial he was ever in the Police. He is. That's fine, if that's what he wants to do. But I know that none of us will ever overcome it. He goes out and plays the songs of the Police. I've just come back from two weeks in Brazil playing the songs of the Police.”

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Sting has produced collaborator Shaggy' s new Frank Sinatra songbook collection, titled Come Fly Wid Mi . The set, which drops on May 25th, features the Grammy Award-winning team on their first joint project since their 2018 album, 44/876 .

Sting said in the album's announcement: “This idea of getting my friend to sing ten iconic songs from the Frank Sinatra songbook in a reggae style had been brewing for a while. . . I know, it sounds crazy! But every time the idea crossed my mind, it made me smile. And what does the world need now, more than anything else. . . something to smile about!”

Highlights on the set include “Fly Me To The Moon,” “That's Life,” “That Old Black Magic,” “Witchcraft,” “Under My Skin,” “Luck Be A Lady,” “Angel Eyes,” and “Come Fly With Me,” among others.

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Things to do | stewart copeland bonus q&a: there’s ‘a 3 percent chance the police will reunite. we drive each other crazy’, what did this rock & roll hall of fame inductee learn in his early days as a roadie for wishbone ash and tour manager for joan armatrading quite a lot.

Copeland discusses his new orchestral work and his time as a college student in San Diego in a separate interview in today’s Union-Tribune .

To do justice to the ever-quotable musician, here is a bonus Q&A from our recent Zoom conversation. He spoke from his longtime Los Angeles home.

Q: You’ll be performing a bunch of Police songs on your “Police Deranged for Orchestra” tour. The Police broke up in 1984, did a reunion tour in 2007 and 2008, and that was it for you, Sting and Andy Summers. What are the chances of another Police reunion?

A: I’m an eternal optimist: I’d give it a 3 percent chance.

Q: Only 3 percent?

A: (laughs) Yeah, not very high. There’s no reason not to, but at moment we’re having a great time dong what we’re doing (individually). And The Police is not easy for us. We get the thrill with the power of those songs, but they pick up emotional baggage with the passing of time.

On our reunion tour, the most amazing thing was the emotion coming from the audience. But getting to that place in rehearsals was difficult. We weren’t the same players we were (in the 1970s and ’80s). We’re not as co-dependent as we were before, and we developed different musical lives, so music has different purposes for us now.

We get along fine socially, but musically we drive each other a little crazy. When we are on stage and we are validated by the audience, then it’s like: “Okay, okay, okay. This is good.” But in rehearsal, we drive each other crazy!

Q: A few years ago I interviewed Stanley Clarke for a Jazz Times cover story. He told me about a Return To Forever tour of the U.S. that took place around 1973 or ’74 and included Joan Armatrading as the opening act. Stanley recalled that you were Joan’s tour manager and that you asked (Return To Forever drummer) Lenny White if you could play his drums each day, after Return To Forever’s soundcheck was over. Lenny cautiously agreed.

A: (Laughs) Lenny told me: “Yes, as long as you don’t use the (bass) drum pedal and cymbals.” It was like: “You can borrow my car, but I won’t give you the keys!” Years later I met Lenny again, and told him about that. And he said: “You’re that guy!” Apparently, that was a favorite anecdote for Return To Forever.

Q: Joan Armatrading wasn’t your only tour managing gig, was it?

A: I tour managed for Joan, Renaissance and Curved Air before I became the band’s drummer. But the Lenny story is pre-Curved Air. I did that tour for three months across America, ending up in San Francisco. She went back to England and I went to UC Berkeley; I was still in college. After leaving Berkeley and before I joined Curved Air, I was a roadie for Wishbone Ash , Climax Blues Band and Curved Air before I joined it.

So, basically, I’m a glorified roadie!

Q: Did your background as a tour manager and roadie help you in the early days of The Police?

A: Absolutely, particularly in 1976 and ’77 when all those English punk bands were genuinely punk. They would get booked to play at Rebecca’s (nightclub) in Birmingham, but had no idea how to get there! As a result, The Police would get a lot of cancelation gigs filling in for other bands. I knew how to get a truck and I knew how to get our band to a gig. There were only three of us.

The other secret sauce was what I learned at UC Berkeley. The music I learned in San Diego became very useful later in my life. But at Berkeley, I couldn’t get in the music department. So I studied public policy and learned how the media works and how to manipulate the zeitgeist. That was very helpful for The Police!

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Entertainment | sting shoots for 3(.0) and scores, while opening tour at the fillmore detroit.

As the title indicates, the trek returns the multi-hyphenate British rocker to a trio configuration for the first time since the Police’s 2007-08 reunion. (It was also his first metro area appearance in eight years and his first as sole headliner since a 2011 date at the Fox Theatre.)

As such, the hit-filled 20-song, hour-and-45-minute was a testament to the open flexibility of Sting’s songwriting and to the chops he and his trio mates — longtime guitarist Dominic Miller and drummer Chris Maas — demonstrated in pivoting lushly produced recordings such as the Police’s “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic” and Sting’s own “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You,” “All This Time” and “Desert Rose” into Spartan and still — and perhaps even more — powerful arrangements.

Sting was well aware of just where he was as he launched this phase of the tour, which played Europe during the summer.

Earlier on Tuesday he name-checked Detroit’s music heritage, specifically Motown and the MC5, in a social media post. Early on he recalled the Police’s Nov. 5, 1978 stop at the long gone Bookie’s Club 870 — “When I was 12,” the 72-year-old quipped — and losing his voice while attending a Tigers baseball game during the summer of 1983, which forced the postponement of a Joe Louis Arena concert.

And as the trio made a rhythmic change on the back end of the Police’s “Roxanne” during the encore, Sting told the crowd that “a sophisticated town like Detroit, you should get this.”

Primarily Sting and company — following a captivating half-hour solo piano set by Elew — reveled in the space afforded them in the trio configuration, attacking the uptempo fare with a balance of punky Police exuberance and years of experience, and filling quieter pieces such as “Fields of Gold,” “Mad About You,” “Why Should I Cry For You” and the show-closing “Fragile” — during which Sting switched from bass to acoustic guitar — with subtle but impactful nuances. Miller in particular took free reign throughout the night, pushing the arrangements with soaring textures and occasionally letting rip for a hot solos on the Police songs “Driven to Tears” and “So Lonely” and ushering out “Never Coming Home” in a muscular jam with Sting.

The trio’s brand new song “I Wrote Your Name — described by Sting as “a romantic song…also quite noisy” — went over well with a crowd that spent much of the show on its collective feet and responding with gusto every time Sting orchestrated a call-and-response from the stage. In fact, he said the aforementioned Bookie’s gig was where he created the “little improvisation” during the Police’s “Can’t Stand Losing You.”

And things were already pitched high when the trio launched into a breathless non-stop run to close the main set, sandwiching “Desert Rose” between Police favorites “Walking on the Moon” and “So Lonely” on one side and “King of Pain” and “Every Breath You Take” on the other.

It was the kind of night — world-class performers, and performance, in an intimate space — that gets talked about for years, not unlike that Police show before a handful of people at Bookie’s. As fans left the Fillmore on Tuesday one was overheard saying, “I spent a s***load of money for these tickets, and it was worth every penny!”

She’d have been hard-pressed to find anyone to disagree.

Sting and Elew perform again Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the Fillmore Detroit. Doors at 7 p.m. 313-961-5451 or thefillmoredetroit.com .

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Linkin Park aren’t just risking a doomed reunion – their entire legacy is under threat

Emily armstrong’s induction into the nu-metal band has been rocked by controversy over her previous support of now-convicted rapist danny masterson – for which she has since apologised. while the criticism is valid, mark beaumont writes, armstrong should be allowed to admit and learn from her mistake without lifelong censure, article bookmarked.

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I t is not about erasing the past,” Mike Shinoda told the audience at the LA Forum last week, during Linkin Park ’s first public show in seven years, “it is about starting this new chapter into the future.” It’s a chapter that was always going to be subject to scrutiny – the long-awaited return of arguably the most loved millennial rap rock band. A group whose 2000 debut Hybrid Theory sold 32 million copies and helped define the nu metal era, but who tragically lost their singer Chester Bennington to suicide in 2017. Already, though, this new plotline seems drawn from a dark and turbulent courtroom drama.

Heard on hits such as “In the End” and “Numb”, Bennington’s anguished rap-rock lyricism and persona, often coloured by his experiences of childhood abuse, depression, and addiction, were definitive cornerstones of the band for many fans. Replacing him was always going to be a bumpy process, as it is with any charismatic frontperson; Queen, for example, never really stood a chance.

But Linkin Park’s choice of singer to co-front the band with co-founder Shinoda – Emily Armstrong , singer with Dead Sara, underground favourites on the LA rock scene – has proved deeply divisive due to her previous support for her one-time friend, That 70s Show actor Danny Masterson , during his 2023 rape trial.

According to the band, who had trialled working with several singers in the years since Bennington’s death, Armstrong is the perfect fit for his formidable sneakers. Having first auditioned over three days in 2019, she finally clicked during recordings last year and is now taking some of Bennington’s original parts on older songs on tour. “When I started to hear Emily’s voice on things, it was like the first time that my brain would accept it as a Linkin Park song,” Shinoda said. For the band’s DJ Joe Hahn, it was Armstrong’s signature guttural scream that sealed the deal: “That did it.”

Critics and fans initially welcomed her arrival. Reviewing the comeback single “The Emptiness Machine”, the first new Linkin Park material to feature Armstrong, New York Times critic Jon Parales noted that she “shares Bennington’s facility in pivoting between melodic belting and throat-shredding screams”, while fans on Reddit described Armstrong’s addition as “a worthy reboot” and “the best step they could have taken”.

But no sooner had news of her induction broke than serious objections were raised, not least from Bennington’s son Jaime, who posted a lengthy statement on Instagram protesting against the choice. In his post, he questioned and reminded everyone of Armstrong’s links to Scientology and her support of Masterson, who was sentenced to 30 years to life last year after being convicted of two out of three rape charges against him.

Jaime wrote that Shinoda had “quietly erased my father’s life and legacy in real time” by hiring Armstrong under these circumstances. “You have betrayed the trust loaned to you by decades of fans and supporting human beings including myself,” Jaime continued. “We trusted you to be the bigger, better person. To be the change. Because you promised us that was your intention. Now you’re just senile and tone deaf. Insane.”

Jaime’s objections were backed up by The Mars Volta singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, whose wife Chrissie Carnell-Bixler was one of three people who accused Masterson of sexual assault (he was not convicted on the charges relating to her). In light of Armstrong joining Linkin Park, Bixler-Zavala re-shared a post he’d written on Dead Sara’s Instagram page back in 2023, reading: “Do your fans know about your friend Danny Masterson? Your rapist friend.”

Overnight, Linkin Park’s new era was launched straight into the gutter. Armstrong responded to the controversy in an Instagram statement of her own last Friday (13 September). “Hi, I’m Emily,” she wrote. “I’m new to so many of you, and I wanted to clear the air about something that happened a while back. Several years ago, I was asked to support someone I considered a friend at a court appearance and went to one early hearing as an observer. Soon after, I realised I shouldn’t have.”

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Armstrong claimed her mistake was trying to see the good in people. “I misjudged him,” she wrote. “I have never spoken with him since. Unimaginable details emerged and he was later found guilty.” She finished by stating: “I do not condone abuse or violence against women, and I empathise with the victims of these crimes.”

It certainly doesn’t help that, just days earlier, the band’s founding guitarist Brad Delson had announced that he wouldn’t be joining the reunion tour after all, preferring to work with the band “behind the scenes”. That so many of those involved in this dispute have ties to the secretive Church of Scientology (Masterson is a member; Bixler-Zavala and his wife former members; Armstrong was born into the church but has not publicly clarified her involvement since) inevitably adds to the murkiness of the situation.

Masterson’s trial included testimony from his accusers claiming to have been pressured by church officials not to report him under suggested threats of expulsion and familial dislocation. The Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo had concluded that church doctrine prohibits members reporting each other to the police. While the church denies any such policy, the questions remain: was Armstrong’s attendance at Masterson’s hearing connected to such a protectionist ideology? And did her support of him go any further than that single appearance?

The controversy has brought out some backing for Linkin Park’s decision, though. Brent Smith, lead singer of Florida rock band Shinedown, defended the band’s right to decide their own future. “The entire world knows [Bennington] will never be replaceable because he was one of a kind,” he wrote on Instagram. “But…there is an audience that miss this band, and their presence, and what they represent… Give them the opportunity to not close their chapter. Allow them to celebrate their legacy, and also the opportunity to create a new one.”

Considering the information available at present, this seems a fair response. Many musicians have links to Scientology, and those born into the church – such as Armstrong and Beck – have often been limited not only in their life choices but also their ability to comment on the matter. Membership is no barrier to rock stardom, nor should it be. And online discourse itself often has very limited empathy for those it wants to attack, prone as it is to brushing aside human traits such as regret, self-education, and ideological growth.

People do not automatically share the guilt of criminals they might once have called friends – nor do they necessarily think the same as they did 20 years ago, or even last week. It’s quite believable that Armstrong heard shocking and damning evidence during the Masterson trial that opened her eyes to his true character, in which case she should be allowed to admit and learn from her mistake without lifelong censure.

Jaime does have a point, though, that Bennington’s – and by extension Linkin Park’s – legacy as an honest, relatable, and righteous force in rock is under threat. There are questions to be answered that won’t be stonewalled by brief online statements and attempts to dodge them will only make Armstrong and Shinoda’s position seem shadier. Submitting themselves to a frank, open and honest interview on the matter seems the very least amount of fire-battling necessary here.

Ultimately, it’s in the band’s hands – not those of Bennington’s family – as to who they feel will best serve their music going forward, not to mention who they’d be happiest sharing a tour bus with for years on end. Reviews of Armstrong’s performances with the band have thus far hailed her as an exciting and inspired successor to, rather than a replacement for, Bennington. But unless these valid criticisms are swiftly and comprehensively addressed, the Linkin Park comeback might well be doomed from the off, in danger of stalling in the quicksand of public opinion.

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