The Police rock..

Following the emergence of Punk in the late 1970s a band emerged from the chaos that went onto great success. The band consisted of 2 musical veterans Stewart Copeland (Curved Air) and Andy Summers(Soft Machine) who teamed up with a jazz playing art teacher Gordon Sumner better known as Sting. They bleached there hair blonde and then landed on the London Club scene,

They got themselves a record deal and went to great success. Although they released material in the late 1970s namely the Outlandos d'amour album which spawned the hits Roxanne and So Lonely and Regatta de blanc which gave us Cant stand losing you and the memorable Message in a bottle, they started to capture the mainstream market as we entered the 1980s.

The band kicked into overdrive and were constantly touring and writing new material and the music had a more Caribbean style to it. Zenyaetta Mondatta was released as an album and this saw the succesful release of Dont stand so close to me and as Alan Partridge best put the gibberish De do do do , de da da da.

The Grammy awards followed on the back of this and soon they were one of the hottest tickets in town. Ghosts in the Machine was released and this saw the release of the infectious Every Little thing she does is magic and spirits in the material world. More awards followed one being a brit award in 1982 for the best band but also the band were involved in side projects with Stewart in film production, Andy releasing a solo album and Sting in acting roles notably Quadrophenia and Lock stock and two smoking barrells.

The band was very active but found time to release which was there last studio album Synchronicity with this album saw the release of Every breath you take, synchronicity and king of pain. With the band members increasing individual activities it was decided to take a break and that continued when they did meet up to record and work on a new album that disagreements were becoming more apparent that it was decided to break the group.

From that moment Sting has enjoyed a successful solo career of note. Stewart and Andy still remained in Music, Stewart was producing and found time to drum on Simple Minds studio album Street Fighting Years and Andy did various solo projects and even played on some of Stings solo albums. What started of as a fired up new wave rock band, it did introduce us to the soprano tones of Sting. The band did get back together after years of non contact and did a Police Reunion Tour to sell out audiences over a 12 month period which took in pretty much every continent. The band then went there seperate ways but the memories will I am sure linger on to future generations.