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Quote of the day by Sting: 'Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be...' - inspiring quote by Grammy-winning singer of Every Breath You Take and Brand New Day teaches life lessons on inner peace, mindfulness, health and wellness

Quote of the day by Sting: Musician Sting found meditation through songwriting and later yoga. He realized quiet focus occurred during creative and mindful activities. This shows mindfulness can be discovered in various personal pursuits. There is no single path to finding inner peace and balance. Exploring new habits can…

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“It’s a piano chord, but I played it with my arse. I was singing and I just wanted a rest, and the piano lid was open. So I sat and I played that chord”: The Police’s classic breakthrough hit – with the ultimate bum note

“I went to my room, picked up the guitar and imagined this woman into life”

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Drummer Stewart Copeland was ‘heartbroken’ after The Police induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Exclusive: Revered drummer and composer is the subject of a new documentary, in which he opens up about his time with the rock band as well as his early life and extensive solo career

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"We'd blown all the momentum that we had and all the credibility." The Police's journey to superstardom wasn't the smooth ride you might imagine

How The Police's debut album Outlandos d’Amour helped pushed 'new wave' into the mainstream

Louder

Sting ‘pays former Police bandmates £600,000 in royalties’ as lawsuit continues

The Police frontman’s ex-bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland are arguing they are also owed a portion of his income from streaming and download sales of the band’s music

The Independent UK

"I interrupted the passage of this chalice to the great one!" The night that The Police's Stewart Copeland "mortally embarrassed" himself in front of a Beatles legend

The moral of the story is that you're never too cool to make a fool of yourself

Louder

“We made a concerted effort to move away from the long thematic songs into something shorter”: Rush were one of the proggiest bands of the 70s. Then they discovered The Police and reggae and wrote the hit that reinvented them

Goodbye sci-fi epics, hello surprise hit singles

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“I said, ‘I don’t want to work with him!’ I was bitter that he was doing so well. But I needed the money”: How a prog supergroup with 200 hits between them got together

Quartet with connections to Yes, 10cc, Kate Bush, The Police and many others took five years to agree their debut album was ready to release

Louder

“Andy Summers is one hell of a jazz guitarist, but it was Sting who volunteered him for the session”: How jazz bass legend Christian McBride reunited The Police duo for his latest album

Sting and Andy Summers joined McBride for a jazz-tinged version of a Synchronicity-era Police classic

Guitar World

Sting Finds Fractured Modern Music Scene 'Quite Odd'

British singer-songwriting legend Sting finds the multiple genres and streaming platforms of the modern music scene "quite odd", but still believes in the power of song to unite people.

International Business Times

"The three of us were put on this planet to make different kinds of music": Stewart Copeland on why it's unlikely The Police will ever reform

Former Police man Stewart Copeland is about to embark on a trip around the UK telling stories about the band and more

Louder

Sting’s High Court royalty dispute to return in January

The former bassist of The Police is accused of withholding royalties from his bandmates.

Evening Standard

Sting faces lawsuit from Police members over claims of unpaid song royalties

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Sting faces £1.5m lawsuit from former The Police bandmates over royalties

Guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland claim they never got songwriting credit

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Sting's former bandmates in The Police, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, are suing him claiming that they're owed unpaid royalties for the trio's 1983 mega-hit Every Breath You Take

The Police are heading to court

MusicRadar

"Grohl's randomised fills and relentless single strokes at the end of the song makes this one of his greatest drum performances on record": Listen to 11 isolated drum tracks from rock's drumming legends

Led Zeppelin, Rush, The Beatles, Slipknot, The Police, and more

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Sting sued by Police bandmates

Sting is being sued for millions by his The Police bandmates, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland.

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“No debate, no coaxing, no schmoozing, nothing – I put music on the page and they play it. Don’t tell Sting!” Stewart Copeland on making music after The Police, being outdone by Pink Floyd, Curved Air, Neil Peart and life in his 70s

The accidental archivist revels in found sounds, movie soundtracks, spoken-word performances – and after dealing with his tensions of the 80s, explains why his brother isn’t talking to him

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“The label didn’t want me to do it, but didn’t want to piss me off. We were both famous guitarists so I thought there’d be a lot of interest. I was right all along”: Andy Summers and Robert Fripp collaborated with remarkable ease

When the Police and King Crimson men got together, the result was two well-received albums and a stack of forgotten material – finally released – that they can’t believe wasn’t used in the 80s

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Bob Geldof quips he gets 'blue in the face' listening to 'f***ing Freddie Mercury' at Live Aid

The Live Aid co-founder was promoting the new album, 'Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical (Original Cast Recording)', which sees hits by Queen, David Bowie, Sir Elton John, U2, The Police, Madonna and more reimagined by the show's cast.

Guitar World

“I subsequently became the world’s most famous guitarist with The Police. I wanted to play with somebody else to see how I’d do, like an experiment on myself”: At the height of his ’80s success, Andy Summers needed a challenge – he found Robert Fripp

As Summers’ and Fripp’s avant-garde albums of the 80s are reissued, we hear all about how the side-project came to be – and whether it could happen again

Guitar World

“You got it!” Rare footage of Andy Summers teaching John Mayer how to play Message in a Bottle emerges

Backstage footage from 2007's Live Earth benefit concert shows the Police guitarist rehearsing with Mayer and Kanye West

Evening Standard

Sting praises Adolescence choir for creating ‘beautiful’ cover of Fragile

The 73-year old former frontman of the rock band, The Police, shared the post on Monday with a video from the hit Netflix drama.

Guitar World

“You got it!” Rare footage of Andy Summers teaching John Mayer how to play Message in a Bottle surfaces online

The backstage footage from 2007's Live Earth benefit concert shows the Police guitarist rehearsing with Mayer and Kanye West

Guitar World

“They’re really good guitar parts. I highly respect Andy Summers, and I don’t want to mess with what he’s done”: Sting’s longtime guitarist finds everything in the Police’s catalog “playable” – but says this song is the band’s most challenging to nail

Dominic Miller also reveals whether there are any Police songs that prove tricky to recreate without the original lineup

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