The Police in Australia, 1984 - interviews. 

walking on the moon, roxanne drivent to tears

Agree , they disbanded way too soon , I was gutted when they did . But we all know it was basically Stings idea ❗️

The popular songs are certainly not the best songs

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Sting and Stewart could not stand each other on set. They were basically like Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker of the punk scenario.

Or maybe, people are more sane and coherent and reasonable only after they've purged all their demons, having cried and wept after beating the crap out of each other, and with the feeling of more crying to do. Anyone would be more relaxed when sad, that it would look like happiness to anyone else. =)

Or it could be the snorting coke that explains everything lol.

Yeah you can tell on Stewart's face that he's happy because the workload is small and they aren't sick of each other. You can tell he wants to pick it up and do an album and the whole shabang again, but he knows they will just be at each other's throats again. You hate to see it.

You are very good

That's important to point out, because on some misleading sites, there's New Zealand after this show. Someone pointed out to me that that was false and now so do you. So why is New Zealand listed after Australia? Also as you list them?

I was there!

Stewart is lovable as a drummer but more so because he is just so strange and unique, and quirky.

Stink said he is up for it.

he was and still is very good looking and charming

1986 Amnesty Tour: "Am I a joke to you?"

Fair enough, although not an entire tour but a single benefit concert, wasn't it?

@@thetr00per30 Three benefit concerts.

People don't appreciate them enough, lol? Any video on RU-vid with The Police is filled with comments talking about how Stewart is one of the greatest drummers ever

Let's hope he doesn't die of kidney failure from all these years of holding back.

Absolutely.

The lack of statement was reportedly Miles Copeland's idea--keep the fans on edge, don't say anything definite, even when it was clearly over.

Reading about the actual fights that took place while recording the Synchronicity album, I'm amazed they made it through a 9 months tour together. Stewart "It's my band, I brought us all together, I'm the best player" Copeland and Gordon "I'm the best looking, the singer, the songwriter:" Sumner REALLY didn't like each other.

@@aquamarine99911 They had no problem touring. They only saw each other when they got on stage. The main bickering and fighting was in the studio, especially on this record.

@Manaboot Adogg who

He's bouncing up and down like he has to pee.

More like four lines of coke!

New Coke

And did re record Don’t Stand for greatest hits in 86.

​​@@dayvideo64 Did you ever hear the updated version of De Do Do Do that was out in 86 I think but could have been before ??? Bloody terrible it was.

@@_6079SMITH yes Indi. Wasn’t too good lol

I think they were tentatively scheduled to get together 2 years later in 1986 for a Greatest hits recording and see what happens, just in case. That did not go well.

@@RichV20 Although, that record was a huge seller. I

It's fun that Stewart Copeland claims not to be a good actor, but he is. He was very good at convincing everyone that Sting was the one who ended the Police, or let him be the one to save face and dignity, so that he could escape unscathed.

He is absolutely agree 👍

@@AraliaFresia lmao what

@@sujalgautam9761 yep. Watch Orchestralli. There's an interview in that 40 minutes or so, where he talks about how the three of them just wanted to start their personal lives and make babies, etc... they just didn't want to keep doing it.

@@AraliaFresia Andy already had a kid. Sting just had his second a month prior on tour. They can make babies and records at the same time.

It sounded like it

@Fernando Cunha agree guys, they had plenty more to offer. It's a shame it never happened.

they were unhappy at this point, coming apart at the seams

@Fernando Cunha when you're that famous, there's no marijuana to be found. Only coke, or heroin. That was sort of a deal-breaker. That's my opinion. The creativity comes from the newness of smoking herb. When it's unavailable they would fight and the other drugs didn't help.

It's funny as I'm not convinced a follow up to Sync would have been better. Can you imagine the pressure of trying to make a better one than an album that was at the top of the US charts for 8 weeks and sold multi millions worldwide ? Back in 84, I prayed for another album but alas it never happened, and you know what? In a way I'm glad it didn't happen as they went out on the perfect high. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It would have been less rock and more soft rock and jazz, akin to Dream Of The Blue Turtles. A 6th Police album with Branford Marsalis as the guest Policeman on songs with the other 3 would've sounded great. But Andy and Stewart might have protested and the public wouldve shunned it.

Sure doesn't look like it. Stingo however, was already gearing up for his solo album released the following year.

I can't unsee it now!!

Nowadays, in 2021, people are saying Stewart is looking like Andy Warhol.

Do you know what interview that was? I would like to watch it

@@kemi3883 I know it's not the interview you were looking for, but Orchestralli at Timestamp 24:45 to 25:05 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3utrfgrU8sk.html it is explained clearly by Stewart how it happened. I should also point out that Andy was the one who didn't really have projects lined up or beckoning, like Sting and Stewart did, other than to get his wife Kate back. Sting was doing some acting in movies, and Stewart's commission with Francis Ford Coppola's need for a musical score for the film, Rumblefish. No matter how you do the math, though, all three of them needed to get their lives back, and not be owned by The Police.

No, the mysterious guy is Stewart, really. Sting mentioned feeling emotional in this interview, but that he "didn't really know how he feels yet" which seems to indicate it wasn't his game plan. Stop putting Sting on a lordship pedestal, because it's only an illusion.

Yes Sting knows many things.

Seemingly, Sting decided when they were on stage at the Shae Stadium that that was enough. I'm sure I read that somewhere. It was Sting's doing.

They knew before shea stadium

@@paulwilkinson8099 Sting knew. Not anyone else.

@@buzzcrushtrendkill from what i understand , he told them at shea that it dosent get any bigger than this and its time to call it a day . Unless i remembering wrong from Andy's book that he went onstage that night knowing that it was all over .

@@buzzcrushtrendkill funny that Sting asked interviewer what they said. Little did they know....

@@paulwilkinson8099 You're correct to validate that it was both Sting and Stewart's decision mutually, with Andy being also informed but yet more clueless of the significance of the other two's rapport on the matter. About this concert, I discovered an interesting factor here, when I'd read a comment on Stewart's Facebook page from someone who had mentioned being in the front row of this last show, and he noticed Sting was crying pretty much the entire concert, while the others were dry-eyed. In this interview Sting does mention feeling emotional, and that "he doesn't actually know how he feels about it" - which seems to indicate that it was not his decision. Stewart was commissioned in 1983, to write the score for Francis Ford Coppola''s Rumblefish and that task was in the wings. www.stewartcopeland.net/701/official-biography Sting and others would like to think that it was Sting that decided when to end the band but it was actually Stewart who was looking forward to doing his own projects, and it was rather, Sting who worried about his own musical career and future. Read it on SC's official website for yourself: ... "After his last concert with the Police in Australia in March 1984, Stewart began his move beyond the rock arena. He created the memorable score to Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumblefish, a strikingly original mixture of traditional percussion, electronically sampled car horns and ticking clocks that would earn him a 1984 Golden Globe nomination. Stewart followed this up with his 1985 docu-drama The Rhythmatist, a journey to Africa to explore the roots of rhythm. Soon afterwards, Oliver Stone called on him to write the scores for Wall Street and Talk Radio." ....

Relentless pre show skiing of course...

weed isn't the cure for all of life's and peoples interpersonal problems you utopian hippie...

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ur paranormal

Interesting comment. Yes, Stewart seems to have been shunned by his own family who ranted and raved more about going with Sting's opinions and feelings because he was the star. So when Stewart complained about something, nobody cared if Sting insisted it was the way forward. I get the feeling that Stewart felt like he blended into the upholstery while Sting got all the attention. That would warp his personality and affect him emotionally and cause trauma for sure. I love Stewart deeply but I'm no sycophant and I'll tell it like I see it.

Stingfanboi :D

I like Stewart, but I too, am upset by the stupid things he says, in "sour grapes" fashion, which probably stems from insecurity, things like "Jazz is the refuge of the talentless" and "jazz is more fun to play than to listen to" and "the problem with jazz musicians is that they all suck! Hahaaa!!" He needs to learn when to keep his big mouth shut and stop abusing his power and think of less manipulative ways to turn an awkward silence into peace at the dinner table. Sometimes I think he does this, for lack of comfortableness in his own skin.

Finally a salient comment

1995 release