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    The Police: The Classic and Talented Band
    The Police: The Classic and Talented Band
    The Police: The Classic and Talented Band
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    The Police: The Classic and Talented Band

    By Maya Archer

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    From their early beginnings, The Police were hailed as a maverick live band - a group that galvanized an already impressive studio sound into something otherworldly when performing. Combining controlled energy and evocative melodies, Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers played with the improvisational instincts of a jazz trio and the raw energy of a punk-rock band - a blend that made them one of the definitive rock groups of the'70s and '80s. The group originally broke through at the same time that punk was shaking up the music scene in the late 70's. Each member came from a different musical background: Summers played with The Animals, Soft Machine and Kevin Ayers, Copeland was a member of Curved Air and had a brief solo career as Klark Kent, while Sting had played in various jazz fusion groups.
    The band manifested an understated virtuosity, applying their chops within reggae grooves and intricate arrangements.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateJun 2, 2014
    ISBN9781304927729
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      The Police - Maya Archer

      The Police: The Classic and Talented Band

      © 2014 by Maya Archer

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      The Police's Songs Are Unmistakable

      The Police's songs are unmistakable. Both canny and cosmopolitan, the British trio's sound blended pop hooks and tricky rhythms. Reggae beats here, African funk there, and on top of all the pulsing grooves, the keening wail of Sting's voice. The band, driven by Stewart Copeland's drums, Andy Summers' guitar, and Sting's bass, leapt from the punk underground to conquer the radio airwaves with 1978's Roxanne. For the next several years they went on to create a wildly successful body of work that was both experimental and highly pop-wise. Maybe that's why they titled their most popular album Synchronicity, and maybe that's why — 30 years after they arrived on the scene — their reunion tour was one of the most celebrated rock events of 2008.

      Gordon Sumner, who got his nom de fame Sting because of a bee-like yellow and black jersey he wore as a young musician, had been a teacher, ditch digger, and civil servant while working with several jazz combos in Newcastle, England. It was in a British jazz club that he met American drummer Stewart Copeland. The son of a swing-loving CIA agent and an archaeologist with an appreciation for classical music, Copeland had grown up in the Middle East, attended college in California, moved to England in 1975, and joined the English progressive-rock group Curved Air. When that band broke up, Copeland formed the Police with Sting and guitarist Henri Padovani in 1977. After a few months of club dates, they replaced Padovani with Andy Summers, whose list of previous employers stretched Eric Burdon and the Animals to Neil Sedaka; a bit older than his new mates, he had also studied classical guitar in California.

      From the start, the band distinguished itself with maverick business practices. Before recording anything, the trio portrayed a bleached-blond punk rock band in a chewing gum commercial — a move that drew the scorn of Britain's punks. But in punk style, the group's first single, Fall Out (cut with Padovani) was homemade and frenzied. Released in

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