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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The Police will release their first-ever double-disc greatest hits compilation simply titled The Police on June 5th. The double-disc CD celebrates the reggae-rock bands 30th anniversary and comeback tour, kicking off May 28th in Vancouver, British Columbia.The “best of” collection is 28 songs pulled from the Police’s five studio albums, including their first single, “Fall Out,” which was
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Andy Summers, guitarist for enduring English Rock group The Police, explained yesterday the possibility of a sixth album at a book signing for his memoirs 'One Train Later', in London."If we do well with these concerts we may well make a sixth album. I can't see why not."The reformed group has been gaining momentum after the announcement of their world tour. They will be headlining at the US Vi...
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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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The Police's front man Sting and his wife Trudi Styler, recently visited Cuba. After seeing the sights and making the photo ops, it appears that the Cubans still want more.During their visit to the Caribbean island, it was widely reported that they met with some of the island's famed musicians and poets. The response was a positive one. It was reported that while in Cuba, "musicians started sho...
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Band plan intimate gigThe Police have announced details of a private fanclub show.The gig will take place at GM Place in Vancouver in British Columbia on May 27.Tickets for the gig will not be on public sale - only members of The Police's fanclub will be able to buy tickets.For details of how to obtain tickets go to "thepolicetour.com":http://thepolicetour.com/.The group's 30th anniversary reun...
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The Police have been forced to postpone two shows in Europe due to Sting being ill. Apparently Sting suffers from a throat infection and has been advised to rest. The two shows that have been postponed are tonight in Antwerp and tomorrow in Mannheim, Germany. No word yet on when these shows will be rescheduled.From LiveDaily news
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The crowds have been ecstatic, but Police drummer Stewart Copeland has been anything but impressed so far by the band's reunion concerts.Copeland trashed Wednesday's concert in Vancouver, British Columbia, in a posting on his Web site the morning after. "This is ... lame. We are the mighty Police and we are totally at sea."His recollection of events -- or, rather, band bloopers...
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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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The Police will make one final trip around North America before retiring the band forever. This summer will be their last tour, with 30 dates in May, July and August in the US and Canada - mostly in venues that have never hosted The Police, in cities the reunion tour has not been to yet! June will find the band in Europe for 15 shows. The entire N. American run will be opened by Elvis Costel...
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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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