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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 …

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,” …

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 …

How does a truly terrible song end up an otherwise flawless album? Blame ego-appeasing band-politics concessions, drug-fueled studio experiments, songwriters working through a few too many personal demons, and artists who just ran out of songwriting steam a little too soon. Or maybe it all comes down to bad judgment. …

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 …

Sting dug out one of his deepest cuts, “I Burn for You,” for the first time in 34 years during his concert in Toronto over the weekend. Sting casually slotted the song — which he first recorded with his pre-Police band, Last Exit — into the middle of his set …

News of the Oasis reunion has sent shockwaves throughout the music world, especially since Noel Gallagher has spent the past 15 years swearing such a thing would never happen. But should anyone really be all that surprised? Liam and Noel Gallagher may not like each other very much, but they …

In 1983, sometime between the M*A*S*H finale, the shock of seeing Darth Vader’s face, and the Cabbage Patch Riots, the Police issued the year’s music blockbuster. The trio’s fifth and final album, Synchronicity, was almost immediately the best-selling LP released that year. The record, now octuple platinum, was a cultural …

Billy Joel and Sting kicked off their One Night Only slate of co-headlining summer shows Saturday with a gig in Tampa Bay, with both artists popping up during the other’s set to help sing one of their classic songs. Joel introduced Sting’s set at Raymond James Stadium, telling the audience, …

The set list for the Police‘s first concert consisted of seven songs, and drummer Stewart Copeland estimates they got through all of them in about six minutes. “We were fast,” he says. With the exception of “Landlord,” which Sting cowrote, and a cover of the Animals’ “It’s My Life,” Copeland …