Plenty of Police fans were disappointed when the group's 2007-08 reunion tour failed to lead into any new music for the band, and guitarist Andy Summers understands how they felt.
He'll probably never record an album of medieval lute music, but we can give Robert Downey, Jr. this much: The man can do a pretty stellar Sting impression.
Sting makes a good deal of money off touring and his back catalog, but he makes $2,000 every day...for ONE song...a song that, technically, he didn't have anything to do with. That's $730,000 a year!
When the Police's debut album came out on Nov. 2, 1978, it sounded like little else on the music landscape at the time. The band was lumped in with punk and burgeoning New Wave groups at the time, but it played a mix of reggae and rock-inspired pop with all the time-shifting complexities found in prog and jazz.
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Rapper Puff Daddy may be prone to, uh, "borrowing" from classic rock songs in his work, but that doesn't mean we have to like it. Police guitarist Andy Summers slammed the rap mogul in a new interview, calling his use of a sampled Summers guitar riff "the major rip-off of all time."
Sting is currently touring behind his brand new box set '25 Years', and the tour finds him here in Texas for three dates this week:
November 16 - Grand Prairie, TX - Verizon Theatre At Grand Prairie
November 17, 18 - Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theater
The current tour features the chief Police man playing a mix of solo material and classics from his original band.