8 February 2025

“For all their unanimity of image – three good-looking blonde lads, a strong Breton shirt/suit jacket game – very quickly, their distinct characters emerge in print. Stewart Copeland, a garrulous American whose glib and cynical wit is clearly a gift to anyone holding a tape recorder.

Andy Summers, a laconic older statesman whose wisdom encourages him to keep his own counsel, wryly teasing those he meets. And then there’s Sting, who has simply never encountered a moment’s self-doubt about his ability to do anything.

– 1978 –

The music which has brought him there is among the most commercially successful
of its era, and on the following pages we have reviewed each of the albums in depth to follow its development.

They would make bigger albums with more instantly-recognisable hit singles, but it’s hard to argue that it ever got better than the second album Reggatta de Blanc. The title punned on their white reggae mode, but on the record they extended far beyond that joky remit.”

Sting (now 73) in an interview with English music magazine Melody Maker in 1979: “I don’t take drugs. I don’t even smoke dope. I don’t mean to sound boring but I don’t have any habits that vast amounts of money will exaggerate. I know I’m arrogant. But it’s largely a professional arrogance. It’s a useful tool for me. If I wasn’t arrogant, I wouldn’t be as successful as I am.”

All you need to know about The Police is here, in this ultimate guide.
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– 1983 –

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