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THE POLICE
London, GB
* 12/1976

Line-Up (2008):

Sting - voc,bg
Andy Summers - g
Stewart Copeland - ds

Former Members:

Henry Padovani (g, 12/76-8/77)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Outlandos d'Amour	11/1978	A&M		6	23
2.	Reggatta De Blanc	27.09.1979	A&M		1	25
3.	Zenyatta Mondatta	03.10.1980	A&M		1	5
4.	Ghost In The Machine produced by: Hugh Padgham/The Police	02.10.1981	A&M		1	2
5.	Synchronicity produced by: Hugh Padgham/The Police	17.06.1983	A&M		1	1
6.	Every Breath You Take - The Singles	11/1986	A&M		1	7
7.	Their Greatest Hits	1990	A&M
8.	Greatest Hits	05.10.1992	A&M		10
9.	Message In A Box: Their Complete Recordings (4CD)	10/1993	A&M			79
10.	The Police Live (2CD)	29.05.1995	A&M		25	86
11.	The Very Best Of Sting And The Police	10/1997	A&M		11
12.	The Very Best Of ... Sting & The Police	01.10.2002	A&M			46
13.	Every Breath You Take: The Classics	04.03.2003	Interscope
14.	Every Breath You Take / Live in Atlanta	05.10.2004	Universal International
15.	The Police (2CD)	05.06.2007	A&M		3	11
16.	Certifiable (2CD)	07.10.2008	Best Buy
17.	Every Move You Make - The Studio Recordings	11/2019	Polydor		17
18.	Live! - Vol. 1 Boston 1979	6/2021	Polydor
19.	Live! - Vol. 2 Atlanta 1983	6/2021	Polydor
20.	Around The World	5/2022	Eagle

Andy Summers:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	I Advance Masked & Robert Fripp, prod. Andy Summers/Robert Fripp	10/1982	A&M
2.	Bewitched & Robert Fripp, prod. Andy Summers	21.09.1984	A&M			155
3.	Network & Robert Fripp	1985
4.	XYZ	7/1987	MCA
5.	The Golden Wire	4/1989	Private
6.	Mysterious Barricades	10/1989	Private
7.	World Gone Strange	1991	Aris
8.	Invisible Threads & John Etheridge	1/1994	Mesa Blue Moon
9.	Green Chimneys: Music Of Thelonious Monk	18.05.1999	RCA
10.	Peggy's Blue Skylight	26.09.2000	RCA
11.	X Tracks: Best of Andy Summers	08.02.2005	Fuel 2000
12.	Synaesthesia	12.06.2007	Times Square
13.	First You Build a Cloud	02.10.2007
14.	Strings of Desire & Victor Biglione	10.06.2008	Rare
15.	Splendid Brazil & Victor Biglione	10.06.2008	Rare
16.	Metal Dog	04.12.2015	Andy Summers Music
17.	Triboluminescence	24.03.2017	Andy Summers Music

Stewart Copeland:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Klark Kent credited to: Klark Kent	7/1980	Kryptone
2.	Rumble Fish	1/1984	A&M
3.	The Rhythmatist	5/1985	A&M			148
4.	The Equalizer And Other Cliff Hangers	12/1987	MCA
5.	Orchestralli	14.06.2005	Ponderosa
6.	Stewart Copeland Collection	14.08.2007	Koch
7.	Divine Tides & Ricky Kej	2021

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Fall Out / Nothing Achieving	03.06.1977	Illegal
2.	Roxanne / Peanuts	4/1978	A&M
3.	Can't Stand Losing You / Dead End Job	08.09.1978	A&M	42
4.	So Lonely / Ain't That A Shame	10/1978	A&M
5.	Roxanne / Dead End Job	1/1979	A&M		32
6.	Can't Stand Losing You / No Time This Time (v USA)	4/1979	A&M
7.	Roxanne / Peanuts (reissue)	13.04.1979	A&M	6
8.	Can't Stand Losing You / Dead End Job (reissue)	6/1979	A&M	2
9.	Message In A Bottle / Landlord	14.09.1979	A&M	1	74
10.	Walking On The Moon / Visions Of The Night	16.11.1979	A&M	1
11.	Fall Out / Nothing Achieving (reissue)	11/1979	Illegal	29
12.	Bring On The Night / Visions Of The Night (v USA)	1/1980	A&M
13.	So Lonely / No Time This Time (reissue)	1/1980	A&M	6
14.	Six Pack	6/1980	A&M	12
15.	Don't Stand So Close To Me / Friends	12.09.1980	A&M	1
16.	De Do Do Do De Da Da Da / Friends	10/1980	A&M		10
17.	De Do Do Do De Da Da Da / A Sermon	11/1980	A&M	5
18.	Don't Stand So Close To Me / A Sermon	1/1981	A&M		9
19.	Invisible Sun / Shamelle	18.09.1981	A&M	1
20.	Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic / Shambelle	9/1981	A&M		3
21.	Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic / Flexible Strategies	16.10.1981	A&M	1
22.	Spirits In The Material World / Low Life	04.12.1981	A&M	12
23.	Spirits In The Material World / Flexible Strategies	1/1982	A&M		11
24.	Secret Journey / Darkness	4/1982	A&M		46
25.	Every Breath You Take / Murder By Numbers 7"(2) + Truth Hits Everybody / Man In A Suitcase	20.05.1983	A&M	1	1
26.	Wrapped Around Your Finger / Someone To Talk To 12" + Message In A Bottle (live) / I Burn For Mary	15.07.1983	A&M	4
27.	King Of Pain / Someone To Talk To	8/1983	A&M		3
28.	Synchronicity II / Once Upon A Daydream	28.10.1983	A&M	17	16
29.	Wrapped Around Your Finger / Tea In The Sahara	12/1983	A&M		8
30.	The King Of Pain 2 / Tea In The Sahara (live)	06.01.1984	A&M	12
31.	Don't Stand So Close To Me '86	9/1986	A&M	24	46
32.	Roxanne '86 / Synchronicity II	11/1986	A&M		7
33.	Walking On The Moon / Message In A Bottle	1/1987	A&M
34.	Compact Hits EP (Roxanne / Can't Stand Losing You / Canary In A Coalmine / Bed's Too Big Without You)	4/1988	A&M
35.	Can't Stand Losing You (Live) / Roxanne 12" + Voices In My Head	24.04.1995	A&M	23
36.	Voices Inside My Head	30.09.1996	AM:PM
37.	Roxanne '97 (Puff Daddy Remix) & Sting	08.12.1997	A&M	17	65
38.	Walking On The Moon	2/1998	AM:PM
39.	When The World Is Running Down (You Can't Go Wrong) & Different Gear	24.07.2000	Pagan	28

Stewart Copeland:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Don't Care / Thrills / Office Girls credited to: Klark Kent	5/1978	Kryptone
2.	Too Kool To Kalypso / Theme From Kinetic Ritual credited to: Klark Kent	11/1978	Kryptone
3.	Away From Home / Office Talk credited to: Klark Kent	5/1980	A&M
4.	Rich In A Ditch / Grandelinquent credited to: Klark Kent	22.08.1980	A&M
5.	Don't Box Me In / Drama At Home & Stan Ridgway	13.01.1984	A&M	91
6.	Koteja / Gong Rock & Ray Lema	4/1985	A&M
7.	Out Of Bounds & Adam Ant, (v USA)	8/1986	IRS
8.	Love Lessons / Amy (Silent Movies) & Derek Holt	8/1986	IRS
9.	The Equalizer / The Equalizer (instrumental) 12" + Love Lessons	11/1987	MCA	96

Andy Summers:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	I Advance Masked / Hardy Country & Robert Fripp	29.10.1982	A&M
2.	Parade / Train 12" + Hardy Country & Robert Fripp	9/1984	A&M
3.	2010 / To Hell And Back & Robert Fripp	12/1984	A&M
4.	Love Is The Strangest Way / XYZ	7/1987	MCA

Videos:

1. Around The World - 3/1983, Thorn EMI, live, 75 min
2. The Police Synchronicity Concert - 9/1984, A&M Sound Pictures, live, 76 min
3. The Very Best Of Sting & The Police - 12/1997, PolyGram, 70 min
4. Greatest Video Hits - 27.2.2007, Immortal
5. Certifiable - 07.10.2008, Best Buy, live 2DVD, 109 min

Movies:

1. So What? (1983, directed by Stewart Copeland, o punku, nevydán)
2. Down And Out In Beverly Hills (1986, music by Andy Summers, directed by Paul Mazursky)
3. Highlander II - The Quickening (1990, music by Stewart Copeland)
4. Rapa Nui (1993, music by Stewart Copeland, directed by Kevin Reynolds)
5. Futuresport (1998, music by Stewart Copeland)
6. She's All That (1999, music by Stewart Copeland, directed by Robert Iscove)
7. Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out (28.3.2006, directed by Stewart Copeland)
8. Can't Stand Losing You (9.11.2012, directed by Andy Summers)

Bibliography:

Andy Summers: Throb (10/1983, Sidgwick & Jackson, photos)
Andy Summers: One Train Later (3.10.2006, St.Martin's Press, autobiography)
Stewart Copeland: Strange Things Happen: A Life With the Police, Polo, and Pygmies (9/2009, HarperStudio, autobiography)

Awards:

1980 Grammy Awards - Best Rock Instrumental Performance (track "Reggatta De Blanc")
1981 Grammy Awards

- Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (SP "Don't Stand So Close To Me")
- Best Rock Instrumental Performance (track "Behind My Camel")

1982 Brit Awards - Best British Group
1983 Grammy Awards

- Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (SP "Every Breath You Take")
- Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (LP "Synchronicity")

1983 Ivor Novello Awards - Best Song ("Every Breath You Take")
2003 Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
2007 Vodafone Live Awards - Best Live Return
2008 Grammy Hall Of Fame (SP "Roxanne", 1978)
2009 Grammy Hall Of Fame (LP "Synchronicity", 1983)

Various:

disbanded 1983
reunited 10.3.2003 (New York, Waldorf-Astoria, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame)
reunited 11.2.2007 (Los Angeles, Staples Center, Grammy Awards)

appeared on the LP:

Eberhard Schöner: Video Flashback (30.11.79, Harvest)

Compilation Appearances:

"Roxanne" / "Message In The Bottle" on LP "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball" (11/81, Springtime)
"Every Breath You Take/Theme From Peter Gunn (Mr. Ruggerio's Remix)" on OST "The Sopranos - Music From The HBO Original Series - Peppers & Eggs" (8.5.01, Columbia, & Henry Mancini)
"Roxanne" on OST "CBGB" (8.10.13, Omnivore)

Andy Summers:

appeared on the LP:

Joan Armatrading: Back To The Night (4/75, A&M)
David Bedford: The Odyssey (8.10.76, Virgin)
Jon Lord: Sarabande (12.11.76, Purple)
Sting: Nothing Like The Sun (10/87, A&M)

Stewart Copeland:

recorded also under pseudonym Klark Kent (1980)
1975 marriede Sonja Kristina (Curved Air)

appeared on the LP:

Peter Gabriel: So (5/86, Virgin)
Jonathan Elias: Requiem For The Americas - Songs From The Lost World (1989, Enigma)
Terry Reid: The Driver (6/91, WEA)
Primus: Anti Pop (18.10.99, Interscope)
Tom Waits: Alice (7.5.02, Epitaph)
Rusty Anderson: Undressing Underwater (13.09.05, Surfdog)

Awards:

2021 Grammy Awards - Best New Age Album ("Divine Tides", & Ricky Kej)
2023 Grammy Awards - Best Immersive Audio Album ("Divine Tides", & Ricky Kej)

Press References:

Bang!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1993	12	01.12.1993	5	Big Bang
1995	22	28.11.1995	46		profile
Big Beng!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1997	43	04.12.1997	27	Forum kritikum	album review
2000	7	06.04.2000	161	A léta běží ...	profile, discography
2002	14	16.08.2002	40	Forum kritikum	album review
Melodie
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1981	3		83		profile
1983	4		125		album review
1991	11		26	Recenze	album review
Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1977	23	04.06.1977	19	Singles	single review
1978	36	09.09.1978	18	Singles	single review
1978	44	18.11.1978	3	News
1979	31	18.08.1979	3	News
1979	33	01.09.1979	29	Reading Festival	gig review
1979	35	15.09.1979	26	Singles	single review
1979	36	22.09.1979	30	Albums	album review
1979	37	29.09.1979	45	Caught In The Act	gig review
1979	43	17.11.1979	3	News
1979	44	24.11.1979	28	Singles	single review
1979	45	01.12.1979	4	News
1979	51	22.12.1979	22	Caught In The Act	gig review
1980	11	15.03.1980	3	News
1980	13	29.03.1980	4	News
1980	17	14.06.1980	3	News
1980	25	02.08.1980	10	Caught In The Act	gig review
1980	29	30.08.1980	3	News
1980	33	27.09.1980	14	Singles	single review
1980	34	04.10.1980	23	Albums	album review
1980	36	18.10.1980	5	News
1980	39	08.11.1980	5	News
1980	43	06.12.1980	4	News
1981	4	24.01.1981	6	US News
1981	4	24.01.1981	28	Caught In The Act	gig review
1981	35	29.08.1981	3	Fast Forward
1981	38	19.09.1981	14	Singles	single review
1981	39	26.09.1981	32	Caught In The Act	gig review
1981	40	03.10.1981	3	Fast Forward
1981	40	03.10.1981	20	Albums	album review
1981	42	17.10.1981	12	Singles	single review
1981	42	17.10.1981	20		interview
1981	49	05.12.1981	14	Singles	single review
1981	51	19.12.1981	24	Caught In The Act	gig review
1983	11	12.03.1983	4	Fast Forward
1983	13	26.03.1983	4	Fast Forward
1983	20	14.05.1983	3	Fast Forward
1983	21	21.05.1983	23	Singles	single review
1983	22	28.05.1983	3	Fast Forward	interview
1983	24	11.06.1983	4	Fast Forward
1983	29	16.07.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	29	16.07.1983	22	Singles	single review
1983	35	27.08.1983	6		interview
1983	40	01.10.1983	13		gig review
1983	42	15.10.1983	5	Fast Forward
1983	44	29.10.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	44	29.10.1983	5	Fast Forward
1983	44	29.10.1983	22	Singles	single review
1983	52	24.12.1983	6	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	52	24.12.1983	16	Videodrome
1984	2	14.01.1984	18	Singles	single review
1984	33	29.09.1984	31	Video
1996	17	27.04.1996	55		single review
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1991	19	27.09.1991	20	Recenze	album review
1995	12	20.06.1995	6	Galerie
1995	14	18.07.1995	28	Recenze	album review
1997	2		113	Recenze - Atd	album review
1997	9		10	Rock & Top
1998	2		121	Recenze - Film & Video
1998	3		112	Singly	single review
1998	4		109	Recenze - Atd.	album review
2000	10		113	Recenze - Singly	single review
2003	4		21	Pel Mel
2003	5		35
2005	9		12	Rock&Top - News
2007	9		26
2008	1		15	News
2008	2		74	Rewind - Classic Rock	profile, discography
2008	11		34	Play
2009	1		73	Record - DVD	album review