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The Police

Minimalist lines, maximalist tension—three players sounding like satellite arrays.

New wave
Reggae rock
Post-punk

Updated 27 October 2026

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Biography

Synchronicity crowned stadium ambition while keeping rhythmic intellect.

Every Breath You Take’s stalker ambiguity became accidental wedding staple.

Andy Summers’ chordal colour rewired rock guitar voicing for pop radio.

High-bitrate streams preserve high-frequency hiss, rim patterns, and fretless burr.

Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland combined punk energy with reggae rhythms. Outlandos d’Amour (1978), with Roxanne, Reggatta de Blanc (1979), and Zenyatta Mondatta (1980) made them stars. Ghost in the Machine (1981) and Synchronicity (1983) added jazz and synthesizers.

Every Breath You Take, from Synchronicity, was one of the biggest songs of 1983. The band split in 1984 and reunited for a world tour in 2007 and 2008.

Interesting facts about The Police

01 English-American rock band formed in London in 1977 by Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland.
02 Synchronicity (1983) included Every Breath You Take as a US chart-topping single.
03 Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.
04 Every Breath You Take is on Synchronicity (1983).
05 The band reunited for a tour in 2007–08.