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The Police: Nottingham City Hall
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 7 January 1984
RICHARD COOK’S extraordinary vision of The Police (NME, 2nd Dec.) prompts one to reconsider the profound difference between The Police – those awful sing-a-long-a-suicides ‘So ...
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The Table, The Police: Music Machine, Camden, London
Live Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 25 June 1977
A BAND THAT calls itself The Table must, at the very least, lack sound commercial principles — and will hopefully have something novel to offer. ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 18 November 1978
IT WILL probably come as a surprise to most people who saw them during their early months last year, but The Police have finally come ...
Profile and Interview by John Pidgeon, Melody Maker, 2 December 1978
THE POLICE are not punk. The Police are not disco. The Police are not heavy metal. The Police are not power pop. The Police are ...
Report and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, February 1979
IT'S SMOKY and crowded in that dusty old shoebox they call CBGB, and there's a band called the Police onstage – so what else is ...
The Police: The Whisky, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 14 April 1979
THERE'S SOMETHING schizophrenic about this group. An English band with an American drummer, a Californian who knows how to bash out rock and roll – ...
The Police: the case of the bleached blonds
Interview by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 3 May 1979
'Roxanne' arrests America ...
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Sweet Potato, 10 May 1979
BACKSTAGE AFTER the first of four sold-out performances at the Paradise, Stewart Copeland is relaxing, intermittently sipping a beer, and mostly trying to explain the ...
The Police: Bottom Line, New York
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New York Rocker, June 1979
BACK IN OCTOBER, when the Police made their American debut at CBGB's, their sets were among the least-attended weekend shows that club had seen for ...
Police, Cramps, Bobby Henry: Odeon, Edinburgh
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 9 June 1979
VALUE-ADDED. A three band tour. Expenses shared, exposure for the musician, extras for the audience. A good thing. Which is at least one reason why ...
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 16 June 1979
...but instead you'll be relieved there are no Police puns in this headline ...
The Police: The Long Yarn Of The Lore
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 1 September 1979
ALONGSIDE THE habitually garish or else just plain boring film posters that currently besmear the walls of London, the advert for Quadrophenia stands out like ...
The Police: Reggatta De Blanc (A&M)
Review by John Pidgeon, Melody Maker, 22 September 1979
ONLY A year ago I had to talk the editor of this paper into taking a feature on the Police. I don't recall who got ...
The Police: Reggatta de Blanc (A&M)
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 29 September 1979
IF PEOPLE weren't so busy establishing joyless divisions of rock acceptability, creating slums of fashion and – ha! – credibility, then people wouldn't hesitate to ...
The Police are the best reggae group in America
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 15 December 1979
A WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE ON JAMAICAN MUSIC BY SYLVIE SIMMONS ...
Report and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 5 January 1980
THE ROTUND gentleman sitting at the next table in this Leeds coffee bar demolishing his quadruple eggs, sausage, beans, chips and grease, is regaling us ...
Police Report: Message From Three Bottle Blonds...
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, February 1980
JANUARY 1979: We started receiving phone calls here at BH Central of some urgency from John Pidgeon, one of our English writers who also toils ...
Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 7 February 1980
In the first instalment of a four part close-up on the band of the moment, the man with the voice talks to David Hepworth about ...
Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 21 February 1980
In the second instalment of our four part Police Profile, Sting talks to David Hepworth about fans, fame and the future. ...
Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 20 March 1980
Fifteen years in Rock 'n' Roll. Is it just a passing phase? David Hepworth thinks not. ...
Police Profile: Stewart Copeland
Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 3 April 1980
The man who formed The Police stresses the importance of faith and gestures a lot. David Hepworth sits still and listens. ...
The Police: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 14 June 1980
Rock Law... ...
The Police: Crisis of Identity
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 28 June 1980
WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? KLARK KENT, STEWART COPELAND AND PHIL SUTCLIFFE REVEAL ALL (NEARLY) ...
The Police: Crisis of Identity
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 28 June 1980
SOMETHING CAUGHT the corner of my vision, I spun round and there was Superman bounding straight towards the window and alighting on the sill with ...
Comment by J. Kordosh, Creem, July 1980
They were six fine English boys Who knew each other in Birmingham They bought a drum and guitar Started a rock-roll band. ...
Interview by Ronnie Gurr, Record Mirror, 4 October 1980
Cub reporter STEWART COPELAND grills RONNIE (the star) GURR ...
The Police: The World About Us
Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 16 October 1980
In today's programme, lesson one: Income = Input + Inspiration. Stewart Copeland supplies the formula. David Hepworth studies it very carefully. ...
The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta (A&M SP-4831)
Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 1980
POLICE STATE: SLUGGISH ...
Sting and The Police: The Rhetoric of Stardom
Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1981
IT IS NOT Sting but his alter ego Gordon Sumner who opens the door of the smart Hampstead house, one hand restraining a large, black, ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, January 1981
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 ...
The Police: Tooting Bec, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 3 January 1981
JUST BECAUSE The Police have played in India is no reason to turn their Tooting Bec tent concert into a simulacrum of the Black Hole ...
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, April 1981
'TWAS THE day before Christmas and like a lot of good Americans I was watching All My Children as part of my holiday bonus. (Hey, gotta keep ...
Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, December 1981
Between the pleasant song hooks and facile photogenia of the Police there lies a sophistication and urgency that has justly brought Andy Summers, Sting and Stewart Copeland to the ...
The Police: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 26 December 1981
One Law For Them ...
The Police: Ghost In The Machine
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, January 1982
GARRY AHRENBERG couldn't get into the Police, an esthetic predeliction that caused him no small amount of derisive peer pressure. ...
The Police: Ghost in the Machine (A&M SP-3730)
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1982
THE POLICE are stars. What with the worldwide mega-success of 'De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da' and Zenyatta Mondatta, maybe they figured they ...
Live Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 2 January 1982
THE LAST night of a residency can be many things: a blow-out, a piss-up, a tired release, a last lunge for the heights. I don't ...
Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Smash Hits, 21 January 1982
The rise and rise of the pop video has brought mini-movies into every living room; Adam in panto, The Human League in detective thrillers, Barry ...
The Police's Sting considers a new career
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 4 March 1982
PHILADELPHIA — DEEP in the bright yellow innards of Philadelphia's Spectrum Arena, the reluctant rock god known as Sting eyes a dressing room crowded with ...
Demolition Men In The Machine: Everything The Police Do Is Magic
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Creem, April 1982
I visit Police guitarist Andy Summers early one Monday evening at the mansion flat in Putney in Southwest London in which he has lived since ...
The Police, Go-Go's: Spectrum, Philadelphia PA
Live Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, April 1982
IT WASN'T the same seeing the Police at the Spectrum, Philadelphia's pro sports arena, as it was back at CBGB or even the midsize Palladium. ...
Report and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1982
HELLO, SPORTS fans! We're in the 76ers' dressing room at the Spectrum in Philadelphia – but that tall, gangly fella slumped on the end of ...
The Police, Black Uhuru: Byrne Arena, East Rutherford NJ
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982
IT LOOKS intriguing from a distance, the Byrne Arena, glowing in the darkness of the New Jersey Meadowlands. But it starts to look scary as ...
Sting: A Policeman's Guide To Good And Evil...
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, September 1982
YOU MIGHT NOT have noticed, but there's been little activity on the Police front recently. This year, apart from a few sporadic live appearances, has ...
Junger than Stingtime: The Police's Synchronicity
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, June 1983
THE POLICE are much like Gods to their pop universe, not only in their worship rating but in their omnipotent attitude to their work. They ...
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Downbeat, July 1983
HIS IMAGE is pure pop. Shaggy blond hair (dyed) in a modified Beatles cut. Mod clothes that might have come from England's trendy King's Road: ...
The Police: May The Force Be With You
Report and Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 1 September 1983
When The Police played New York's Shea Stadium it looked like something from outer space. 67,000 people were in the audience. One of them was ...
Police Poised On The Brink Of Infinity
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, November 1983
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? ...
The Police: Princes of the City
Profile and Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, December 1983
PRINCES OF THE City. There's nothing like an American stadium show to make you feel small and alone. ...
Stewart Copeland: The Rhythm Method
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 25 May 1985
STEWART COPELAND has been using his holiday from The Police to go exploring in Africa and make a video and LP called The Rhythmatist. Caroline ...
Miles Copeland: "Make sure you write what a nasty S.O.B. I am"
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, March 1988
STING'S BRING On the Night was a big-budget home movie by a talented musician convinced that every breath he takes deserves to be documented. It ...
Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, June 1988
Becoming a Drumhead in 6 Easy Lessons ...
Review by David Sinclair, Q, October 1992
"ALL SONGS WRITTEN by Sting", it says under the 16 titles on Greatest Hits – 15 of them Top 20 hits, five of them Number ...
The Police: Oh, How We Laughed!
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, November 1993
They were one big happy family. They were brothers by different parents. They were all for one and one for all. Except they weren't. The ...
Review by David Sinclair, Q, 1995
IT’S EASY TO forget what an outstanding live act The Police were. Combining musicianly flair (guitarist Andy Summers) with furious bursts of energy (drummer Stewart ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, August 1995
TOWARDS THE END OF The Police, I thought we were turning into a backing group for Sting. I thought, I've got more going than this ...
Sting: The Secret Life Of Gordon Sumner by Wensley Clarkson (Blake £15.99)
Book Review by Tom Doyle, Q, May 1996
TELLINGLY TITLED, this 300-plus-page biography of Sting follows in the tradition of Clarkson's previous unauthorised works on film stars Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise by ...
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, April 2002
YOUR NAME IS Sting. You are the planet's biggest rock star. But lately you don't like what you see in the mirror. You seem to ...
Hello Goodbye: Andy Summers and the Police
Interview by Martin Aston, MOJO, September 2004
From jazz-fusion to pop-reggae, they conquered the world and split at the zenith of their fame. ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Blender, May 2005
Vital statistics on The Police's 'Roxanne' ...
The Police: Synchronicity Concert
Film/DVD/TV Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2005
SUPERSTAR TRIO on swansong global jaunt. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2006
More than 20 years after The Police split, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland have broken lengthy silences about their time in the band.* ...
Kings of Pain: Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland
Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2006
More than 20 years after the Police split, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland have broken lengthy silences about their time in the band. Terry Staunton ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2007
When the Police split up 23 years ago, they were the world's biggest band... and possibly its most competitive. As they embark on a £100 ...
Miles Copeland: Where's the Police chief?
Report and Interview by Chris Campion, The Observer, 2 September 2007
AS THE POLICE prepare to finally hit home turf on their reunion tour, one figure conspicuously absent from all the reappraisals of their career is ...
The Police: National Indoor Arena, Birmingham
Live Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 9 September 2007
THE LAST TIME the Police played Birmingham, Sting told the audience at the city's National Indoor Arena last week, was in 1983, "when I had ...
Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, August 2008
SOUNDCHECK. Not long now; the comeback gig's only three hours away. But they don't look nervous. Even when their faces appear in enormous close-up on ...
Vinyl Icon: The Police's Synchronicity
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, November 2009
IN 1977, a virtually unknown trio called The Police recorded their debut album, Outlandos D'Amour, in a village hall that had been converted to a ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, December 2009
YOU'D THINK Stewart Copeland might have taken a break after the Police reunion tour — 158 gigs, 921,000 paying customers, $297 million gross. ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 21 July 2016
Rock writer turned broadcasting executive who did much to reinvigorate BBC radio comedy. ...
see also Sting
see also Andy Summers
see also Stewart Copeland
see also Oysterhead
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