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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.

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“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

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“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

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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.

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“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

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“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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“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

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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

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“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’

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"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

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"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

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"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

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“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

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“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

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"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

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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

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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

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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

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