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Andy Summers from The Police at the Hamer Guitar Factory in Arlington Heights, Illinois, March 30, 1982.
The ultimate guide to sus chords: the secret sauce shapes for the Edge, Andy Summers and the Beatles

By Dre DiMura Published

Some of guitar’s biggest names swear by suspended chords. Learn why they’re not so sus after all…

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Eric Clapton's Summersburst Les Paul
Eric Clapton's ‘Summersburst’ Les Paul – used on Cream's debut album – has finally been unearthed after 60 years

By Janelle Borg Published

From England to New York and Paris, the 1960 Les Paul Standard Clapton used on Cream’s game-changing debut is now being brought to the masses of guitar aficionados, thanks to Matthieu Lucas of Matt’s Guitar Shop

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Doug Pettibone
Doug Pettibone on taking lessons from Andy Summers, touring with Jewel, and not getting fired by John Mayer

By Andrew Daly Published

The first-call guitarist explains why he loved working with Lucinda Williams but had to leave, how he got the gig back, his chemistry with Marc Ford, and faking it on pedal steel until Mayer helped him make it

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Andy Summers was skeptical of Telecasters at first – until he found one that would become one of his main Police guitars

By Phil Weller Published

The Strat-lover’s head was eventually turned by a modded Tele that ended up becoming one of his go-to guitars

Guitarists
Stewart Copeland, Sting and Andy Summers of The Police perform on stage, United Kingdom, 1981
Why Sting just paid $800,000 to his former Police bandmates, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland

By Janelle Borg Published

Summers and Copeland launched a legal case last year, claiming “historic underpayment” for their contributions to the Police's hits

Bands
Andy Summers and Sting of The Police during The Police in Concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles - June 20, 2007 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, United States. Christian McBride performs at An Evening With Christian McBride at the GRAMMY Museum on February 13, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
How Christian McBride reunited The Police duo for his latest solo outing

By Nick Wells Published

Sting and Andy Summers joined McBride for a jazz-tinged version of a Synchronicity-era Police classic

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English rock group The Police performing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the band's Ghost In The Machine Tour,USA, 1981. Left to right: Stewart Copeland (drums), Sting and Andy Summers
Sting's legal representatives claim Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland may have been “substantially overpaid” following lost royalties lawsuit

By Janelle Borg Published

Summers and Copeland claim that Sting owes them “in excess of $2 million” for income made from the “digital exploitation” of the Police’s back catalog

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Andy Summers to explore the guitar’s impact on the world in globe-trotting docu-series

By Phil Weller Published

Global Guitar finds The Police songwriter interacting with different musicians and cultures as he charts the instrument’s impact on the world

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Sting performs onstage during the Cherrytree Music Company's 20th Anniversary Concert, net proceeds benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, at The Belasco on May 29, 2025 in Los Angeles, California
Sting sued by Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland over lost royalties from Police mega-hit

By Janelle Borg Published

The Police bassist and frontman is listed as the sole composer and author of the 1983 career-defining single Every Breath You Take

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Andy Summers and Robert Fripp Looking at their Hands
Andy Summers on the stylistic clashes and unexpected successes of his ‘80s collab with Robert Fripp

By Henry Yates Published

As Summers’ and Fripp’s avant-garde albums of the 80s are reissued, we hear all about how the side-project came to be – and whether it could happen again

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