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Oct 01, 1981
MELODY MAKER
"There's a wind in Munich," explains Andy Summers, "that makes people go crazy." Oh Yeah? "It blows at certain times of the year and people who are susceptible can... y'know..." - he rolls his eyes around the dressing room and bares a fine set of pearlies - "lose control. It's like the effect a full moon has. You don't believe me, do you?" Well since it's coming from somebody who's taken the art of the gentle winD-up further than a Swiss clocksmith it does, perhaps, require a smidgen of the old sodium chloride for an easy passage...
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Sep 01, 1981
NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS
Sting indulges in the pop art of philosophical thought as The Police soak up some culture and show their academic roots on the their new LP, 'Ghost In The Machine'. Belfast in black and white with grey rain falling on the urban wasteland of a community at war. A lorryload of soldiers stare bleakly at the sodden streets, at the harassed attitudes of the hurried shoppers, at the frozen atmosphere of Irish fear...
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Mar 01, 1981
THE WASHINGTON POST
When the Police hit town they come with with tons of technological wealth - the latest in lights and sound: they hit Washington as a loss leader, to turn albums into gold. It was late morning when a door swung open and a bright winter's sun drilled into the gilded gloom of the Warner Theater. Outside a pair of tractor trailers droned at the curb, jammed with the latest in light and sound equipment. Tons of it. Out of the trucks it rolled in boxes bigger than steamer trunks...
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Feb 01, 1981
ROLLING STONE
"Did you kill anything on your way in from the airport?" Sting, the blond-haired lead singer, song-writer and bass player for the Police, is not exactly joking. It's a sunny Saturday morning in a Mexico City, and we're sitting at a poolside table at the Hotel Camino Real, comparing notes on our initial impressions of the city. "When we got to the airport," Sting says, "we were walking down the ramp to the baggage are when the lights went out. All of them. It was pitch black. The next thing we saw was a little boy rummaging through a garbage can, looking for food. To top things off our driver hit a dog. I mean, you know how they drive here. I'm sure he killed it... Welcome to the third world..."
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Jan 01, 1981
NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS
Sting instructs New York in the art of Police pop, posing and pontificating. In New York City it is the coldest day of the winter. Later that night the temperature drops to zero degrees Fahrenheit. The woollen-enshrouded Sting leaves the warm lobby of the exclusive, uptight St. Regis hotel, just off the opulent Fifth Avenue a couple of blocks south of Central Park, and rushes nimbly through the freezing air to his waiting, ready-heated, powder-blue Cadillac limousine...
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Aug 01, 1980
HOT PRESS
Sussed! That's the only word for it. There we were strolling down the top of the grand staircase in Leixlip Castle, under the portraits of Guinnesses past on the walls, Colin, Henry and I, with two friends, when the butler's sybaritic eye booked us on suspicion...
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Jul 01, 1980
CHASE THE FADE
Anne Nightingale co-hosted the 'Old Grey Whistle Test' TV show and accompanied the band on their 1980 world tour when the BBC filmed the documentary 'Police in the East'...
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Apr 01, 1980
NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS
A Passage to India: Getting out of Bombay was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I'm certain that everyone is staring at me; that they're all whispering and watching behind my back; that they're all waiting for me to fall - or at least to trip. I was escaping India, the dreamworld or the real world, and I knew that I was running away and so I was panicking. There was a threat. I could come to no decision. I felt impotent and pathetic. Fraudulent. If only I could see further than others...
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Feb 01, 1980
THE OBSERVER
The name on the bell-push at Sting's flat was 'Sumner'. It happened that I already knew his wife's name: Frances Tomelty, the actress (last seen in television's 'Testament of Youth'), and his three-year-old son is called Joseph, after his step-father; the film actor Joseph Tomelty. But Sting himself lurks under a pseudonym...
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Feb 01, 1980
THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
If during the chaos of English punk rock in full bloom, someone had compiled a list of bands likely to make good, The Police wouldn't have been on it. Two years ago, the group looked like anything but a winner. What became its first hit 'Roxanne' wasn't reviewed by Great Britain's leading music paper until months after it was issued. And the song was effectively banned from British radio because of its subject, the singer's love for a prostitute. Besides which, punk rock trendies (both in England and in the U.S.) never really took to the group. It's members were too old, their musicianship too developed and their goal too clearly success to endear them to rock's cult of the unbeautiful loser...
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