Innumerable tubes and a lot of bitterness. Among the three former police members, separated more than 40 years ago, and briefly reformed in 2007 for a tour, the break is consumed.
Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, respectively guitarist and drummer of the group who knew Glory in the 1980s, assigned to the Court on August 24, Gordon Matthew Summer, better known as Sting, and his company Magnetic Publishing Limited. They decided to take the case to the Superior Court of London.
The two musicians, who are not accredited as co -authors of the group’s tubes, are asking millions of damage sterling pounds. According to the sun, the only song Every breath you takewhich exceeded in 2022 the one billion opinions on YouTube, informs Sting 550,000 pounds (around 637,000 euros) of royalties per year.
“A dead end”
Among the former police members, the anger has been going up for some time. “It has been preparing for a long time. The lawyers have tried several times to reach a friendly agreement, but found a dead point,” said a source cited by the sun.
“Andy and Stewart decided that there was no other solution than to take justice, so they supported the button. They say that millions of pounds in unpaid royalties.”
Trained at the end of 1976, by Stewart Copeland, the police separated in 1984, after the tour of their fifth and last album, Synchronicityreleased in 1983, and in which it appears Every Breath You Take. It was Copeland who fell Sting, impressed by his charisma. But the power and ego struggles felt quickly within the group.
“We play in stadiums and feel the love of the public that invades us,” says Stewart Copeland. And then, when we returned behind the scene, with the people who had the most, we felt the lack of love, “said Stewart Copeland.
“There were friction”
While Sting has trusted “we did not go to school together. We did not grow in the same neighborhood. We have never formed a tribe.”
“There were friction for good reasons. We are all passionate about music and we all have a strong character, and no one was allowing to walk through the feet. Therefore, it was part of our dynamics. We argued as a dog and cat for everything and anything.”
This “dynamic” did not prevent them from selling millions of albums (16 million only for the album Synchronicity) and firm some of the most striking successes in the pop of the 80s, with Roxanne, Message at a start, Walking on the moon, Just…
Source: BFM TV
