Oh Mother dear please listen

[DanielS]

Bet they don't play Mother on the comeback tour

 

Police back on the beat

 

 

Paul MacInnes

Tuesday January 16, 2007

Guardian Unlimited

 

 

After 21 years apart during which time they tried to save the rainforest, flog Jaguars, make their carnal activities last for days at a time and, in the case of Stewart Copeland, became a judge on the BBC's celebrity duet show Just the Two of Us, the Police are set to reform.

After months of rumours that the seminal 80's rock band were to make a comeback, perhaps even including an appearance at this year's Glastonbury, the speculation appears to have been confirmed by singer Sting.

 

Last week he finished a performance in California by dedicating a lute only version of Message in a Bottle to his former bandmates Copeland and Andy Summers. Then after performing the works of Elizabethan lute master John Dowland for US TV last weekend he was asked about the rumours.

"We started 30 years ago, so it would be nice to do something to celebrate. We don't quite know what, but we're talking about it", he said from his Italian home. "I'm deeply, deeply fond of both of them. I'm very proud of the band that we were in."

 

It is now predicted that the band will reform in time to perform a summer stadium tour.

 

The Police had their first hit in 1977 with Roxanne and became one of the world's biggest bands in the early 80s. They had five UK number ones and were the most popular white reggae act after UB40.

 

 

--- what sort of sentence do you think a person would get for beating someone to death with a lute?

[Gilps]

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