Sting denies his solo career broke the police
The singer told Howard Stern that the group did not even officially excluded.
At the height of their fame in the early 1980s, the English rock group the police were "like the Beatles" in terms of renowned level. "" We were all over the world , "guitarist Andy Summers said to Yahoo! Life in June 2023. "We were very recognized and, you know, it was crazy." Even today, their single " Every breathing you take "is the most played song to have reached American radio, by Showbiz411.
However, music stopped for the group shortly after visiting their biggest album, 1983 Synchronicity . Police has made an interruption that would become permanent as a leader, songwriter and bassist Sting Taked off for a solo career that would correspond to the success of the group. Years later, Sting said that he had not intended to break the police by releasing his own music and explained why the group collapsed anyway. Continue reading to learn more.
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Sting left the police at the top of their success.
Their first album, 1978 Love Outlandos was the first of the five albums that the police published over six years. Each Sold millions , by Chartmasters, culminating in the Méga-Hit of 1983 Synchronicity , which has moved more than 15 million copies. After having turned in support of the album, reaching Everest of rock concerts in their concert Epic New York Shea Stadium, The group took an interruption According to Pop Classic magazine, and Sting has started to continue its first solo project, the Jazzy the Dream of the Blue Turtles. This album has arrived at N ° 2 on the Billboard chart , producing four best simple and winning two Grammy victories, opening the way to Sting to become one of the greatest solo artists of the next decade.
He said they had never really broken.
Unsurprisingly, given the booming solo career of Sting, the police break has never ended. According to him, there has never been a conversation on a real split. When Howard Stern Asked Sting in 2016 if the group's breakup was his decision, the 71 -year -old replied "" " We have not officially broken . ""
Despite its assertion, creative tensions were behind the scenes and included Physical and verbal confrontations Among the members, according to The Guardian . On an episode in 2020 of the Vintage rocky pod , Police drummer Stewart Copeland said more conflicts appeared when Sting has become "more certain of his singular music vision" and has taken more control of the creative business. "It's just not fun to have to discuss each contribution element," he recalls. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Meanwhile, Sting told Stern that he felt confined by the group. "I needed to broadcast my wings, you know, I needed a different set of colors to work with ... a group has a certain sound, and it's a bit limited," he said .
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He denied his solo career ended the group.
Sting maintains that the release of music by itself was not a ploy to end the police. "I just thought it was time that I exercised my right to make a solo album like the others had done," he told Stern, referring to the work that Summers and Copeland made Outside the group, including the partition of Copeland Golden Globe for the score for the 1983 Francis Ford Coppola movie Rumble . "And then [my album] was a massive success, so I went:" Hang on to a minute ... ", continued the singer.
Supporting Sting's claim, the group met following its solo success. They played three shows with the Amnesty International Benefit Conspiracy of Hope in 1986 and secretly entered the studio To record more equipment the same year, according to Rolling stone . This attempt was interrupted after Copeland fell from a horse and broke his collarbone, however, and soon the group was arguing again - this time on which the synthesizer to use. "It was too early [to come together]," Sting told the magazine.
The summers called the "absolutely devastating" split.
The guitarist Andy Summers expressed different feelings around the group's tensions, saying to Yahoo! This year's life has "three alpha-males" in a group was the dynamic that attracted the public. According to him, the problem of Sting's departure was less his desire to spread his wings than silence around what was really going on.
"[A] T time, [Sting Alleo solo] seemed to be a kind of cute idea. Of course, it was absolutely devastating. But the problem was that we did not say:" So, that is The end of the police. We don't do it anymore, '' said Summers.
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They finally put the group together - for the last time.
More than 30 years after their "unofficial" breakup, the police gathered in 2007 for a lucrative world tour, working through tensions for the good of music. Despite the tour that reports $ 360 million, by Yahoo! Life, fans should not, however, hold their breath for another meeting. Calling for the idea "a bridge too far", Sting noted in Musicradar in 2022 that the three men had trouble working together , even decades later. "I mean it was difficult because the power struggles were always apparent ... But we went through it and people loved it, they really did it," he said.
