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The Police Biography
The Police was a new wave 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 United Kingdom (due to the large number of Caribbean immigrants) and a number of Western European countries, reggae was little known in the United States and rejected by most black artists in U.S, and prior to the emergence of the Police only a handful of reggae songs had enjoyed any significant chart success.
The Police, UB40, The Clash and Bob Marley (Jamaican, partly living in England after being shot in Jamaica, are considered with a number of new wave, rock and ska bands as one of the leaders of the Second British Invasion of the U.S.
The Police were strongly influenced by reggae (especially reggae drumming and base lines), jazz and, in the beginning, punk rock – something that came to be shifted more and more towards pop during the 80s.
The police biography of the band members Other lists [ edit ]. Toggle the table of contents. Curved Air had recently split up and Copeland, inspired by the contemporary punk rock movement , was eager to form a new band to join the burgeoning London punk scene. Retrieved 29 DecemberTheir lyrics also changed from challenging, but yet somewhat politically restrained punk- and new wave lyrics, to after in some songs emphasize environmental awareness and human oneness. The biggest hits, however, had romantic or sexual themes. The Police met together with other "white" British bands which played reggae, as UB40, criticism from black English rastafarian reggae bands like Aswad (in a BBC documentary on TV) and Steel Pulse, for being accomplices in the music industry of "Babylon", stealing the Caribbean slave descendants' musical treasure.
This criticism has later been withdrawn. Aswad has even made the covers of Police songs like "Roxanne".
Tension grew between the band members, because unlike most other bands, they did not share songwriting credits. They released their last album, Synchronicity, in , selling over 8 million copies.
Synchronicity is critically regarded as their best album, with hits such as Synchronicity II, King of Pain, and probably their best known song, Every Breath You Take. In , after touring in support of Synchronicity, The Police went on hiatus while Sting pursued his acting and solo music careers. Two years later, The Police reformed and played a few concerts for Amnesty International.
Soon after the band went into the studio. Sting wanted to re-record their old songs but Andy and Stewart wanted to leave the originals alone and only two songs were re-recorded during these studio sessions. Although the group is considered to have disbanded in , was the last time The Police engaged in any musical activity.
The police biography of the band I'd always wanted to play in a three-piece band. In the liner notes to the Police's box set Message in a Box , Summers explains: "The attempt to record a new album was doomed from the outset. They were turned down for a session by the influential BBC Radio One DJ John Peel in their early career, something which Peel claimed to have never regretted as he didn't rate them at all. Archived from the original on 5 DecemberIn the band released "Message in a Box", their 4 CD box set, and performed at Sting's wedding to Trudie Styler. A live CD was released in June On March 10, The Police were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and performed Message in a Bottle, Roxanne and Every Breath You Take.
The Police reformed in and opened the Grammy award ceremony of that year with a performance of Roxanne.
Towards the end of May the band began a world tour. In the tour ended at Madison Square Garden, New York on August 7, and The Police disbanded for good.
The police biography of the band youtube Qatar Tribune. Archived from the original on 20 August The performance was broadcast as a pay-per-view event. Although reggae was already very popular in the United Kingdom due to the large number of Caribbean immigrants and a number of Western European countries, reggae was little known in the United States and rejected by most black artists in U.Sting was quoted towards the end of the tour that he had achieved closure with the band and revealed that The Police would never tour or record again.
Sting has said that the material on the album Ghost in the Machine were inspired by the writings of Arthur Koestler, and that the Police's final studio album Synchronicity was influenced by the writings of Carl Jung.
Sting also peppers his songs with literary allusions: the song "Don't Stand So Close to Me" mentions Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita; "Tea in the Sahara" alludes to the novel The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles; and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" refers both to the sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis, from Greek mythology, and to Mephistopheles, from the German legend of Faust .
Discography
* Outlandos d'Amour ()
* Reggatta de Blanc ()
* Zenyatta Mondatta ()
* Ghost in the Machine ()
* Synchronicity ()
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