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Sting reveals why The Police will never ever be reuniting again
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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Andy Summers of the Police
Andy Summers has enthralled music fans with his unique talent since entering the music scene in the late 1960s. Since picking up a guitar at the age of thirteen, Andy has made his mark as an essential component of The Police , as a solo artist , and as a writer , photographer , composer, and producer.
With The Police Andy is a driving source of energy and color behind Sting’s dynamic vocals, his guitar playing a distinctive and original signature of The Police sound.
During his Police years, Andy’s guitar was heard and imitated worldwide making an indelible impression on guitar and guitarists everywhere. Apart from the band’s multi-million selling records Andy received two Grammys for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and was also voted the number one guitarist for five years by Guitar Player Magazine, and then entered the Guitar Player Hall of Fame.
Andy, Sting, and Stewart Copeland — The Police — were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.
Andy Summers Photography & Writing
Despite the demands of his music career Andy has also established himself as a writer and photographer with a number of books, essays and several photography collections . His works include Throb , Light Strings , Desirer Walks the Street , I’ll Be Watching You: Inside the Police , and A Certain Strangeness. Along with these published editions, Andy has held around fifty exhibitions across the world. In 2019 the Pavilion Populaire Montpellier France staged a three-month retrospective A Certain Strangeness which broke all attendance records and was later transferred to the Bonnafanten Museum Maastricht in The Netherlands for a further six months.
Andy then completed this run with his multi-media solo concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art In New York June 2019.
Andy’s autobiography, One Train Later , voted number one music book in the UK 2006, has been made into a documentary film and was released in the summer of 2015 to glowing reviews. Andy continues to tour, write, photograph and has never stopped being a guitarist.
One of the greatest guitar players of our generation, fans of Andy Summers know that this prolific artist will continue generating groundbreaking work for years to come.
On this site, you can explore Andy Summers photography by viewing online image galleries which include pictures from Throb , I’ll Be Watching You , and Desirer Walks the Streets . You can also look at Andy’s retrospective shows “ A Certain Strangeness in Europe last year
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After the break-up of the Police in 1984, leaving a legacy as the number one band in the world for several years and one of the biggest selling bands of all time, Andy moved into his own career of nonstop creative output that has embraced many solo recordings, books, photo exhibitions, tours, film and composing. To date he has recorded fourteen solo albums:
XYZ (1986), Mysterious Barricades (1988), The Golden Wire (1989), Charming Snakes (1990), World Gone Strange (1991), Synaethesia (1996), The Last Dance of Mr. X (1997), A Windham Hill Retrospective (1998), Green Chimneys (1999), Peggy’s Blue Skylight (2000), Earth + Sky (2004), The X Tracks (2005), Metal Dog ( 2015), Triboluminescence ( 2017) and Harmonics of the Night (2021).
Andy has also collaborated and recorded with a number of other artists, including:
Robert Fripp: I Advance Masked , (1982) and Bewitched (1984).
John Etheridge: Invisible Threads (1994).
Victor Biglione: Strings Of Desire (1998) and Splendid Brazil (2004).
Ben Verdery: First You Build a Cloud (2007).
Fernanda Takai: Fundamental (2012).
Rob Giles: as Circa Zero Circus Hero (2015)
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