Latest about The Police
Rare footage of Andy Summers teaching John Mayer how to play Message in a Bottle surfaces
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
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
Dominic Miller also reveals whether there are any Police songs that prove tricky to recreate without the original lineup
Fretted, fretless, double bass, eight-string – Sting is unstoppable on bass. Here’s how he developed his style
Songwriter, actor, author, activist, rock star, jazz freak... Gordon 'Sting’ Sumner is quite the renaissance man. Oh, and he played bass in The Police…
Investigating the mystery mods of Andy Summers’ mongrel Telecaster
Plenty of modded or self-built guitars have powered the careers of big players. But the origins of one heavily used guitar remain a mystery…
Andy Summers on his longstanding relationship with Robert Fripp – and their surprise new collab album
Summers and Fripp have known each other since childhood and decided to record three albums' worth of material back in the '80s after they both achieved success with their respective bands
Andy Summers wishes he’d let loose on more solos in The Police
Summers says his guitar chops were stifled by the hardcore punk scene, and that players like him “weren’t supposed to be able to play”
The Police were set to ditch Every Breath You Take before Andy Summers added his riff – now the original demo has surfaced after 42 years, you can hear why
The surfacing of the now classic song’s early demo is a testament to the old adage ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’
