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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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