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“It’s ludicrous a song like that would go on an album at the height of our fame, but it got the most notice because it was so bizarre”: The Police’s Andy Summers on success, psychedelia and working with difficult people

The multi-faceted guitarist looks back on a career including stints with Robert Fripp, John Cale, Kevin Ayers and others

Louder

Sting responds to suggestion classic song is ruined because of Diddy

Disgraced music mogul notoriously sampled The Police song for his own track, ‘I’ll Be Missing You’, in 1997

The Independent UK

“Bearing in mind the colossal success of The Police, isn’t it odd that no-one has ever surfaced to say, ‘By the way, I modded that guitar?’” Investigating the mystery mods of Andy Summers’ mongrel Telecaster

Plenty of modded or self-built guitars have powered the careers of big players. But the origins of one heavily used guitar remain a mystery… Guitarist puts grizzled detective Dave Burrluck on the case...

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“When we started the band, it was more like a guitar solo was a mark of the old guard. I was a virtuoso player, so it was very frustrating for me”: Andy Summers wishes he’d let loose on more solos in The Police – and blames punk for holding them back

Summers says his guitar chops were stifled by the hardcore punk scene, and that players like him “weren’t supposed to be able to play”

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“It was going to be thrown out… Sting says, ‘Go on then, make it your own.’ I did it in one take”: The Police were set to ditch Every Breath You Take before Andy Summers added his riff – now the original demo has surfaced after 42 years, you can hear why

The surfacing of the now classic song’s early demo is a testament to the old adage ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’

Guitar World

"I was terrible to work with, I was unsympathetic, aggressive, mean, selfish, egotistical." The Police were never friends, so Sting discovering coke circa Ghost In The Machine was always going to end badly

Ghost In The Machine may have made The Police superstars, but it marked the beginning of the end for the group

Louder

"That guitar chord Andy came up with was just mind-blowing”: How The Police taught the ultimate lesson of less-is-more on Walking On The Moon… but reportedly without the flanger pedal we all assumed

"It wasn’t really the sort of music that benefited from additional players, it was a locked unit with the brilliant interplay between the three of us"

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Stewart Copeland announces UK dates for his "most intimate tour to date".

Stewart Copeland's Have I Said Too Much? – The Police, Hollywood, and other Adventures tours the UK in October and November

Louder

"I'd have to go up on stage alone, playing that guitar riff, and the others would join in. It was pretty nerve-racking": The story of Message In A Bottle by The Police

As with all of The Police’s hits, Sting is listed solely as the song’s author, but according to Andy Summers, he and Stewart Copeland helped shape the final track

Louder

“Jimi turned round and said, 'Hey man, mind if I play the guitar for a while?' We played for about half an hour. That was probably the last time I saw him”: Andy Summers recalls his “outrageous” jams with Jimi Hendrix

In a new interview with Rick Beato, The Police guitarist also discussed his abandoned duet with Robert Fripp, and what he learned from a guitar lesson with “the world’s greatest guitar player” Lenny Breau

Guitar World

“It was a beautiful thing and suddenly I felt the Leica was the right camera. Like certain guitars, it fits your hands, your body…” The Police's Andy Summers on his photographic passions

The former Police guitarist has had a long-term passion for photography – and his best pictures appear in his new book, A Series of Glances

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“Things had been good – now there were arguments. At the last gig, Andy and I argued about an amplifier and who would use it”: Original The Police guitarist Henry Padovani explains why he was ousted in favor of Andy Summers – but didn’t mind being fired

The founding French-born guitarist had a punkier attitude to his playing that jarred with Summers, but he remained friends with at least two members of the band – and may have even inspired their late-noughties reunion tour

Guitar World

"I was sitting there thinking, I can’t hear guitar": Alex Lifeson on the battle behind Rush's most divisive song, Subdivisions

Sonically, Subdivisions took Rush further into the world of synthesisers – and guitarist Alex Lifeson wasn't happy about it

Louder

Every Breath You Take at 40: the story behind the song - "It was crap until I played on it"

"Come on, do you have to kick the shit out of one another?" - The making of one of the biggest hit songs ever made, in the words of The Police and producer Hugh Padgham

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Electro-Harmonix honors Andy Summers with a rare signature pedal, the Walking on the Moon Flanger

The Police guitarist’s signature shimmering flange and filter tones are captured in this stunning new stompbox

Wales Online

Sting in Cardiff review: The singer proves he's still a class act as he brings his songs to Cardiff Castle

The Police frontman Sting is the latest in a long line of big names to perform in Cardiff this summer

Louder

Andy Summers on The Police: "We could have gone on and played for years"

The unfeasibly young-looking 80-year-old Andy Summers talks about conquering the world in The Police, the reunion, his long-time passion for photography, and much more

Daily Mirror

Sting fell off a ladder with shock when he first heard The Police on the radio

The pop star was listening to Radio One in 1978 while decorating when Roxanne suddenly started playing, and he says: 'I thought 'That's Roxanne playing' and I literally fell off the ladder'

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Sting backs teachers' strike and brands Tories 'a disgrace' over pay dispute

The 71-year-old was a primary school teacher before he found stardom, and he says educating children is too important to skimp on

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Jason Bonham has found tapes that could contain unreleased Led Zeppelin mixes, but he hasn't played them yet

"Let’s find out if we’ve got anything that hasn’t even been released yet." The drummer also revealed that he and John Bonham shared a love for The Police and Stewart Copeland

The Orange County Register

Stewart Copeland breaks down The Police in a new book and orchestral live show

ANAHEIM, Calif. — As he sifted through the hours and hours of Super 8 footage for the 2006 rockumentary, “Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out,” The Police drummer Stewart Copeland knew he needed familiar music from the band to go along with the film.

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