the police

     

The Police are a three-piece rock ban consisting of Sting (vocals, bass guitar), Andy Summers (guitar, vocals) and Stewart Copeland (drums, percussion, vocals). The band became globally popular in the early 1980s, playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, rock and reggae music. Their 1983 album, Synchronicity, was number one in the UK and the US and sold over 8,000,000 copies in the US. The band broke up in the mid-1980s, but reunited in early 2007 with the announcement that they were undertaking a world tour. The tour was scheduled from the middle of that year on until mid-2008, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of their hit single "Roxanne" and also, to a lesser extent, that of their formation as a group. To date The Police have sold over 50 million albums worldwide. Rolling Stone ranked The Police number 70 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Trivia about the police

  • Group heard here with a 1979 song: ("Walking On The Moon")
  • Sting rose to fame in this new wave trio
  • Arthur Koestler's book "The Ghost in the Machine" inspired the title of a 1981 album by this trio
  • Led by Sting, they disbanded after the release of "Synchronicity", their fifth & most successful album
  • "Every Breath You Take"(1983)
  • "Zenyatta Mondatta","Ghost in the Machine","Synchronicity"
  • The title of their 1983 "Synchronicity" album was inspired by the theories of Carl Jung
  • In 1983 this group had its first No. 1 hit in the U.S. with "Every Breath You Take"
  • This '80s trio were "Spirits in the Material World" before the synchronicity of their 2007 reunion
  • 1995's "Every Breath You Take" is a CD of "The Classics" by this pop group
  • Their "Every Breath You Take" went, "How my poor heart aches", not "I'm a pool hall ace"
  • On June 23, 2007 this reunited band wasn't "So Lonely" playing Dodger Stadium; every little thing they did was magic
  • The reunion of this group performing their hit "Roxanne" kicked off the 2007 Grammys
  • This new wave group gave us hits like "Roxanne" & "Don't Stand So Close To Me"
  • Here's a message in a bottle: Stung covers the songs of this trio

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