Sting’s former Police bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland claim they are owed more than $2 million in unpaid royalties, according to legal documents made public this week, The New York Times reports. Last month, reports emerged that Summers and Copeland had sued Sting (real name Gordon Matthew Sumner) in …
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Everybody knows “Every Breath You Take.” It’s the biggest hit the Police ever had, one of the most famous tunes of the Eighties. It spent 8 weeks at Number One in the classic pop summer of 1983. In 2019, BMI officially proclaimed it “the Most Played Song in radio history,” …
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Sting’s former Police bandmates, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, are suing over missing royalties tied to “Every Breath You Take,” the Los Angeles Times and other sources report. In the suit, filed in London High Court, Summers and Copeland claim they were never properly credited as songwriters on “Every Breath …
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Welcome to Drummergeddon 2025, when the entire music world wants to know: What the hell is going on with the drummers? There’s an epidemic of high-profile bands dumping their drummers, or getting dumped by them, and nobody has any clue why. It’s not just the Who or the Foo Fighters. …
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Sting honored his hero Brian Wilson hours after news of his death during a concert in Germany Wednesday evening. While on stage, Sting played a guitar-backed rendition of the Beach Boys‘ “God Only Knows.” “Today, one of my heroes died, Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys,” Sting said before his …
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Shaggy and Sting appeared on The Tonight Show to perform their latest collaborative single, “Til a Mawnin.” The pair were joined by a live band and two back-up singers for the upbeat performance, which paid homage to reggae music. The musicians dropped “Til a Mawnin” last month. The track was …
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Nearly 30 of the biggest stars of the past half-century came together on Jan. 30 to deliver a five-and-a-half-hour love letter to Los Angeles, offering the city a much-needed musical catharsis following this month’s devastating, destructive wildfires. The FireAid show was a huge undertaking: With so many artists eager to …
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Snoop Dogg‘s new single from his upcoming Dr. Dre-produced album Missionary takes major inspiration from the Police‘s 1979 single “Message in A Bottle,” using part of the melody and Sting‘s replayed version of the guitar line —as well as fresh vocals from the former Police frontman. “Me and Snoop made …
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In a recent interview, Sting discussed Police’s chart-topping hit “Every Breath You Take” from their 1983 album,Synchronicity, and the song’s ties to Sean “Diddy” Combs. During an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Sting said that despite the allegations against Combs — who sampled the song on 1997’s “I’ll Be …
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Snoop Dogg is sharing some new details about who fans can expect to hear on his upcoming album. During the Bloomberg Screentime conference Thursday, Snoop revealed that he’s set to feature Sting and Jelly Roll on his future record, Missionary. “I got a feature from Jelly Roll and Sting,” Snoop …
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