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How Mk.gee is bringing back this Roland ’90s-era modeler favored by Joni Mitchell, David Lynch, and Sting
By Janelle Borg published
The Roland VG-8, released in 1995, was designed as “a toolbox filled with essentially every existing guitar sound” – and, over the past couple of years, has been given a new lease on life by modern-day tone hunters

How Tal Wilkenfeld taught Sting the correct way to play an Aerosmith classic
By Nick Wells published
Sting was performing alongside Steven Tyler and Jeff Beck at the MGM Grand when Wilkenfeld intervened

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

Sting guitarist Dominic Miller on why the Beatles' harmonies are “indestructible”
By Janelle Borg published
Miller has recently released a songbook that sees some of the most beloved Beatles tunes come to life with solo guitar arrangements

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
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