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Jan 01, 1984
PENTHOUSE
In 1977, Sting (aka Gordon Sumner), tenor sax-like jazz vocalist and bassist with a faltering British band called Last Exit, quit that gig to become part of a London-based rock quartet called the Police. The group had recently been founded by drummer Stewart Copeland, third son of an ex-CIA agent. Soon afterward, Corsican rhythm guitarist Henry Padovani was fired and the Police became a threesome, with classically trained Andy Summers, late of Eric Burden's Animals and the Soft Machine, on lead guitar. With a loan of 800 pounds they recorded and pressed their own record, a single called 'Fall Out'. It would eventually sell 70,000 copies...
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Dec 01, 1983
NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS
Princes of the City. There's nothing like an American stadium show to make you feel small and alone. As one of 17,000 participants in at the Police's Atlanta show, in the Omni Arena, I drift around the higher blocks of the auditorium. With the precisely vigorous gestures that typify an American crowd, the audience is gorging itself on the bright flood of sound from the stage and the squishy barrels of popcorn and the meek frothy beer and the florid stench of an occasional reefer...
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Nov 24, 1983
CREEM
How indeed, does one write the proper Police story? Does one rant and rave about new records being set weekly on the Billboard album charts? Analyze the band's success in terms of the difficulties each band member has encountered on his way to the top of that same chart? Dwell on personal differences certain to break up the band at their peak of stardom? Admire them for their hair...?
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Nov 23, 1983
TEEN
The Police: music's most arresting superstars: In the six years since those three guys named Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers teamed up to form a rock group and called themselves the Police, the three have earned a succession of hit singles, gold records, platinum albums and glowing reviews. They've done sold-out international tours and are one of the hottest bands in the world today. This past summer, they released their fifth album, 'Synchronicity', and the reviewers couldn't find enough superlatives to describe it...
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Oct 01, 1983
PLAYGIRL
The cavernous hangar is black and empty - except for thousands and thousands of candles, flickering and shining, laid out in arcane and symbolic patterns. And right in the middle of a spiral, as if trapped by the candles and yet entranced by them, moves the graceful figure of a young man. Carefully, I move closer to observe his bizarre dance, waiting for some ritualistic chant to surface from behind the altar of light, and fully expecting a tap on the shoulder by a hooded and faintly menacing figure...
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Sep 23, 1983
PEOPLE
Stop in the name of rock! - Sting and the Police pound the beat on the summer's hottest tour: His spiked hair might have been coiffed with garden shears. Some might say his clothes often show more Goodwill than good taste. At times, his confidence flirts unapologetically with arrogance. None of that matters, of course. When Sting, ne Gordon Sumner, struts out as point man for the Police, what shines forth is the sort of feral sexuality that can fill baseball stadiums at $17.50 a pop...
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Sep 01, 1983
CIRCUS
Are the Police on the verge of a breakup...? The thing about being really successful is that it can make or break you," muses Police guitarist Andy Summers at his home in south-west London. "Once the spotlight is on you and you're up there on that public platform, you really have to deliver. If you don't, then down you go. And I think that one of the main reasons the Police continue to go on is because in the end we do deliver..."
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Sep 01, 1983
ROLLING STONE
Police Brutality - A monster called Sting: "I'm quite interested in finding me again," Police singer and bassist Sting confessed to the press last summer. I used to be the same sort of person on-stage that I was in private life, but now it's sort of a monster. He looks wonderful with the lights and the crowds, but in the kitchen, it's a bit much. I'm just trying to find out who is the real me - is it this monster or someone more normal? Right now, he's a bit worn at the edges..."
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Aug 23, 1983
RECORD
Twilight of the Gods - Being an account of how three musicians and two entrepreneurs turned the music business upside down and an inquiry into why the Police won't give up the ghost. Toronto - The theme is priorities; the name of the game, ambition. To illustrate: when once, in adolescence, life itself hinged on whether the New York Rangers could at long last win a Stanley Cup, it now doesn't so completely dominate the daily passions as much as that peculiar filigree of pain and pleasure known as "the girlfriend..."
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Aug 01, 1983
SMASH HITS
Approaching it from New York in a big black car, Shea Stadium looks like the spaceship that lands at the end of 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind'. It's almost round and completely bathed in light; a warm halo glowing against the night sky. Driving closer, an atmosphere of intense excitement and activity is evident. 67,000 people have bought tickets to see the Police play here tonight. Thousands more have been disappointed...
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