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I’ll Be Watching You: How Sting’s Midnight Ghost Story Became the Most Misunderstood Hit in Pop History
I’ll Be Watching You: How Sting’s Midnight Ghost Story Became the Most Misunderstood Hit in Pop History In the summer of 1983, you could not escape it. It floated out of car radios on the highway, drifted across shopping malls and swimming pools, and murmured from the slow-dance corner of every wedding reception in America.…
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Sting, Copeland & Summers: The Heart Behind the Hits of The Police
The Police burned bright and brief — five studio albums, one decade, and some of the most enduring songs ever recorded. From 1977 to 1986, Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers were the biggest band on the planet, blending reggae, punk, pop, and jazz into something entirely new. But the three men behind the music…
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How The Police Made “Zenyatta Mondatta” in Four Weeks Flat: Tax Exiles, Schoolgirl Crushes, and a Grammy-Winning Grudge
By the summer of 1980, The Police were the biggest new band in the world — and they were broke, exhausted, and not allowed to record in their own country. Britain’s tax laws had driven them into exile, their schedule was a meat grinder of tours and television, and they had exactly four weeks to…
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The Untold Story of The Police: Three Alphas, One Legendary Implosion
They were the biggest band on the planet for about five minutes in 1983, and they spent those five minutes barely able to stand being in the same room. The Police — a bass-playing schoolteacher from Newcastle, a jazz-schooled guitarist ten years his senior, and an American drummer raised on CIA stations in the Middle…