What do 150 actors, 46 horses, five falcons, two vultures, two eagles and 120 doves have to do with The Police? Drummer Stewart Copeland has composed the music for Ben Hur Live, an adaptation of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ into an "arena...
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Stuart Copeland told the BBC news that he hasn't ruled out another reunion of the Police. "I'd recommend that every artist should do it every 20 years. So call me in 20 years."Copeland just finished composing the music for Ben Hur Live, a touring show described as an "operatic sports event." Reports say that the show concludes with a live chariot race.Stevie Wonder will play a free outdoor con...
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The Police have been named as the highest-earning musicians - having made $115 million in the past year.The Forbes Magazine poll revealed that Beyonce Knowles, Justin Timberlake and Madonna are also in the top five.Wtam.com reported that The Police were helped to the crown of "World's Highest Paid Music Stars" by the $28.3 million each they made from their reunion shows.The ten "Highest Paid Mu...
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So there was a bomb threat near my office today. Kept us cooped up inside when we should have been out eating lunch. And no delivery, either. The cops were keeping everyone out of the area. Isn't delivery an inalienable right? Anyway, snapped the photo above just before the police shooed me back inside for my own safety.Hard to pick a "bomb" song to associate with this post. So many to ch...
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The Police played what is being coined as their final gig ever last night at NYC's Madison Garden. And from the photo above..things got a little weird.Not only did the band give a shout out to famous band trios of all time covering Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" and then later in the set the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Purple Haze." The band gave a shout out to NYC's finest with Sting wearing a...
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When The Police reunited in 2007, I was thrilled. I’d loved their two-disc live set ever since “borrowing it” from a friend in high school. To that I’d added their Greatest Hits, and that was basically all I needed. Though ticket prices were outrageous for that reunion tour, I managed to catch ‘em at Bonnaroo (read my review) and loved every minute of it. Only having the greatest hit
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Waiting in my mailbox the other day was a stack of vinyls from Bob, and just like the last time he sent me a bunch of his doubles, I decided to post the album which received the most listens. In this case, it was probably a tie between U2's The Unforgettable Fire and The Polices’ Synchronicity. For the sake of not being overly repetitious with U2, I decided to post The Police. The Police are on.
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Just as with albums, 2008 wasn't a bang up year for concert DVDs. Sure, there were plenty of good ones, but nothing that was mind blowing. Last year's list featured plenty of multi-disc sets including Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker's epic documentary/concert film Runnin' Down A Dream , the amazing full-blown release of Nirvana's Unplugged and AC/DC's exhaustive Plug Me In box set, but this y...
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Last year's Guitar Hero Championship was lots of fun, so I was looking forward to this year's. It's an interesting event to compare to the recent US Air Guitar Championship that I recently went to. Andy Summers, guitarist for The Police, hosted. I knew the second he said his first line that this event [...]
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I came back at about 2:22am tonight/this a.m. from Montreal where I just saw The Police at the Bell Centre. It took the crowd a few songs to get into it but the place was pretty full and it quickly became a +3 awesome show that featured Andy Summers' brilliant guitar work quite prominently.These guys still can kick ass.The opening band was Fictionplane with Joe Sumner (Sting's kid) on bass and ...
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If you see Andy Summers, Sting or Stewart Copeland - the three members of the Police - at a bar, don't hesitate to ask them to buy you a glass of the 100 year-aged Rémy Martin Louis XIII Cognac. The trio have the dough for it. Their reunion tour was the highest grossing tour of 2007, beating out Genesis and pop-star Justin Timberlake.According to Billboard Boxscore the Police grossed $212 milli..
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The Police played what is being coined as their final gig ever last night at NYC's Madison Garden. And from the photo above..things got a little weird.Not only did the band give a shout out to famous band trios of all time covering Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" and then later in the set the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Purple Haze." The band gave a shout out to NYC's finest with Sting wearing a...
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"Woop Woop - it's the sound of The Police..."The Police will sound off for the last time with a concert in NYC in August. The band will play its final concert ever, a fundraiser benefiting arts programming on public tv stations WNET and WLIW in NY. In addition to the concert proceeds going to a good cause, Sting and The Police will contribute $1 million to the MillionTreesNYC project, which t...
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The Police were forced to cancel two more European concert dates due to frontman Sting's ongoing throat infection. With only four more shows left on the band's run through Europe, both October 15th (Monday) and October 16th (Tuesday) shows in Manchester, UK were postponed. Last week, the infection sidelined Sting from three concerts, two in Germany and one in Belgium. At the time of post, both ...
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I don't know how much I believe in the whole "last show ever" concept. Anyone who is anyone seems to reunite, even the Police. But alas ... the Police will play their last concert EVER (again) at Madison Square Garden on August 7th, with openers the B-52s.The trio will go out with a charitable bang, with tickets for their final bow only available thru donations to New York public television sta...
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| 1 Don't Stand So Close to Me |
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| 2 Canary in a Coalmine |
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| 3 De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da |
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| 5 Driven to Tears |
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