Final Decision; The Police Band Members Confirm That A Reunion Is Not ….
footballmedia24 August 10, 2024 9 min read
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Throughout the late ‘70s and the ‘80s, The Police changed the sound of rock music. They brought pop and new wave elements to the genre, and the songwriting was unparalleled. Decades later, the group’s music remains incredibly popular, but fans shouldn’t get excited about another possible reunion.
Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers–two of the members of The Police–recently spoke to Mojo about their legacy, and they answered the question that must follow them everywhere they go. When asked, “Is there any shared feeling within the band that you’d like to get back together one last time,” the musicians didn’t hold back.
No,” Copeland answered simply and definitively. He added, “There’s at least a 0000000000000000000000.1 percent chance of it ever happening,” perhaps as a joke…or maybe to give followers of the group the tiniest bit of hope.
Summers seemed content with never reuniting as well. “I think we went out on a high,” he stated earlier in the conversation. The musician explained his reasoning by saying, “We sold 75 million records [in total]. Can’t complain about that. It gave us all a marvelous platform and legacies to live with, or if not, beat
Copeland agreed with his former bandmate. “We’re very pleased, I think, all three of us, that we left at the top of the parabola,” he shared. Copeland finished his thought on the topic by saying, “We never saw the other side of the parabola. We take great pride in that.”
The Police only released five albums during their time together, but they still managed to become one of the biggest bands in the world in a matter of just a few years. The group shot to the top of charts everywhere with songs like “Message in a Bottle,” “Walking on the Moon,” “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” and “Every Breath You Take,” among others.
time, I might have been disappointed, but the songs of mine that didn’t make Synchronicity turned into the score for the Francis Ford Coppola film Rumble Fish, which got me a Golden Globe and Grammy award nomination. I’m very proud of the Police but life outside was better. Now I write film scores, symphonies, I’m on my eighth opera and I still practise drums four hours a day. I’ve achieved a certain amount of small success in almost every form of music except pop.
Will we ever see Klark Kent [Copeland’s early solo project] again? reteucooper
Ah, my one very small success with a pop song [his track Don’t Care was a hit in 1978]. I had some songs which weren’t Police songs for the reasons mentioned, so I recorded them myself using a guitar and an early drum box which just had settings such as “rumba or “samba”. Driving home listening to those tracks was one of the happiest days of my life. The first time the three [Police] blond heads were on national TV were as Klark Kent’s backing band, doing Don’t Care on Top of the Pops.
Was keeping diaries [released in 2023 as Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries] and filming initially just for fun? What’s your favourite footage? Misty62
They were such exciting times; I really wanted to grab some of them. I’d no idea it would be of interest 40 years later. My tiny diaries were mostly full of things like how much we got paid or how many people came but also innermost thoughts such as grandiose schemes – hey, if I could get a Klark Kent deal I could make £7,000 a year! – and grievances, dark stuff. My favourite footage is at Birmingham town hall where we were supporting Albertos Y Los Trios Paranoias. Their manager told us they should have charged us to be on the tour as it was sold out. Well, we soon found out why it was sold out. We mounted the stage to this high-pitched shriek of pubescent females. After our struggles as a fake punk band and working constantly, suddenly we were on the front of all the girly magazines and were a teeny bopper band. That night we had to fight our way through a mob to get to the cars.
the same guy that took Sting to the Amazon – and I argued all the way across Africa but the film has some great shots of me serenading lions in a chicken cage. It’s the dumbest movie ever made but with a little hindsight it’s actually pretty funny.
Reckon you could have pulled off the winged underpants in Dune better than Sting? VammyP
Oh no! Sting has magnificent pecs and can’t wait to show them. I still have a skinny bony chest.
How did you get on with the Cramps when they supported you on your 1979 tour? Bhunabhoy
I loved the Cramps. They were really strange. You’d go into their dressing room and they’d be hanging from the ceiling like bats, with the lights out. Audiences hated them. After their set the stage would be covered with beer, glasses, rotten eggs, tomatoes, whatever. My other favourite opening act was the Go-Go’s, five women who lit up the stadium, so when we came out we were rocking.
If you could have been in any other band, back in the 70s and 80s, which one would you have chosen? original
If I could play guitar, the Ramones … on drums, could I go back even further? Could I play with Jimi?
What memories do you have of the live arena production of Ben-Hur from 2009? VerulamiumParkRanger
Oh God, such a drama. This crazy German [Franz Abraham] had assembled all these forces to produce this humungous show. Then the stock market crashed and all the money went, so we had to lie and cheat to get the show to open. At the O2 Arena [in London] Sean Connery declined so I got the job as narrator, on horseback, in front of 18,000 people and 400 Romanian and Ukrainian extras. My voice was prerecorded, so I was miming, but the horse took off in a flat out gallop. It looked great, but was what you might call an urgent exit.
