It’s official: The Police are to reform and go on tour this year. The musical trio from ‘old blighty’ are going to take one last stab at being rockers on the road in what promises to be a lucrative sell out tour.
Back in the late 70’s and early 80’s it is perhaps not unfair to say that The Police were the ‘biggest band in the world’ banging out classics like Roxanne, Can’t Stand Losing, Message In A Bottle, Don’t Stand So Close To Me, and of course Every Breath You Take.
Sting, 55, Andy Summers, 64, and Stuart Copeland, 54, announced their tour shortly after playing their classic song Roxanne the recent Grammy Awards ceremony. They plan to play North America, Mexico, South America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
I’m definitely going to try and get hold of tickets for when they play the UK. As a kid I was a big fan of the band with posters of the sunglasses wearing funk rockers adorning my bedroom walls. I had all their albums on cassette which I used to play constantly on my brick sized Sony walkman. Every Breath You take remains one of my all time favorite songs.
Indeed as I sit here writing this I have their Greatest Hits playing on iTunes and even now after all these years I can still sing along nearly word for word to the songs.
The Police were eventually knocked off their perch at the top of the music world by a group of four young upstarts from Ireland by the curious name of ‘U2’.
The 14 date North American tour starts off in Vancouver, Canada, on May 28th. The band plans to donate a portion of the revenue from the tour to WaterAid, a charity that works in 17 countries providing water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world’s poorest people. Tickets for the 14 dates across North America go on sale this weekend and are priced between 50 to 225 dollars.
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[Video] Every Breath You Take
[Video] Message In A Bottle
[Video] Don’t Stand So Close To Me
[Video] Roxanne
[Video] So lonely
[Video] De do do do, De da da da
The Police to reform and tour
WaterAid
Wrote the following comment on Feb 13, 2007 at 4:00 pm
The Police sure did write some great songs. I think I can remember a few of the words too. I have got their album somewhere. I will dig it out I think.
Wrote the following comment on Feb 13, 2007 at 8:01 pm
with the oodles of money they’re making they could probably donate a nice chunk of money for water…
Wrote the following comment on Feb 14, 2007 at 2:13 am
one of my very favorite bands, and yes i still sing along. my kids are fans now, and i think they were more excited than i was when they heard about the reunion tour. i bet the tickets sell out instantly.
p.s. – i lost my first comment. used to be that the name fields above were already populated when i came here. they weren’t so when i submitted i got an error message…. :(
Wrote the following comment on Feb 14, 2007 at 3:10 am
Oh man, The Police! I especially liked the version of Roxanne in Moulin Rouge. A girl I knew was creeped out by ‘Every Breath You Take’.. she said it was a stalker song… but I digress. I hope you get to see ’em, they’re way cool!
Wrote the following comment on Feb 14, 2007 at 3:29 am
You know Luli, your friend was right, ‘Every Breath You Take’ is a stalker song. Listen to the words, it’s very spooky! But people hear it and think it’s a nice love song in the same way they hear Susanne Vega’s song ‘Luka’ and think that’s a nice song about a little girl called Luka, when really it’s an awful tale of child abuse.
Annabean, I think that the ‘cookie’ this site uses to identify you may have changed over the weekend when I tinkered with stuff under the blogs hood. It should be fine again now, sorry for the inconvinience.
Wrote the following comment on Feb 15, 2007 at 12:59 am
“Every Breath You Take” is one of my top ten of all time. You must get tickets.
Wrote the following comment on Feb 15, 2007 at 4:00 am
I’m with you on this one Simon. I loved the Police when I was in middle school and Synchronicity came out. But, then it was just cool… years later, and a lot of music lessons and attempted creativity, I still sit in awe watching the amazing talent each one has on his own… I really want to see that magic live!