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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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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

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Sting performs onstage during the STING 3.0 Tour at Brooklyn Paramount on October 07, 2024 in New York City.
How Sting’s 1953 P-Bass set the tone for this Police classic

By Karl Coryat Published

Taken from the fourth Police album, Ghost in the Machine, Sting's fretwork is filled with chord inversions, syncopations, and dynamics – all the right stuff for a dynamite bassline

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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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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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John Mayer and Andy Summers pose backstage at Live Earth with their Martin acoustics
Rare footage of Andy Summers teaching John Mayer how to play Message in a Bottle surfaces

By Jenna Scaramanga Published

Backstage footage from 2007's Live Earth benefit concert shows the Police guitarist rehearsing with Mayer and Kanye West

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Andy Summers of the Police performs on stage at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, July 23, 1984 / Robert Fripp of King Crimson at the Poplar Creek Music Theater in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, June 22, 1984
How Andy Summers formed one of the 1980s’ most unlikely guitar partnerships with Robert Fripp – despite not being especially keen on some of his work

By Matt Owen Published

The worlds of stadium rock and prog came together for a time in the early 1980s, when The Police and King Crimson guitarists teamed up for a handful of avant-garde records

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(L-R) Dominic Miller, Chris Maas, and Sting perform onstage at the 2024 Ohana Music Festival at Doheny State Beach on September 28, 2024 in Dana Point, California
Sting's longtime guitarist finds everything in the Police's catalog “playable,” but says this song is the band's most challenging to play

By Janelle Borg Published

Dominic Miller also reveals whether there are any Police songs that prove tricky to recreate without the original lineup

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Bassist/singer Sting of the Police performs at The Agora Ballroom on April 27, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Fretted, fretless, double bass, eight-string – Sting is unstoppable on bass. Here’s how he developed his style

By Nick Wells Published

Songwriter, actor, author, activist, rock star, jazz freak... Gordon 'Sting’ Sumner is quite the renaissance man. Oh, and he played bass in The Police…

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