One Band (Not Three): The Police Reunite?

Prepare yourselves for an onslaught of song-related puns. Over the next few months, we’re all about to be subjected to clever doozies like “I’ve read the Message in a Bottle, and it says The Police are getting the band back together.”

The language is still purposefully vague, the commitments missing completely. But the chatter flying around our old mercantile mater is now suggesting we may see a reunion of The Police some time this summer. Several papers in Jolly Ol’ England believe Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland will triple-kiss and make up for a tour around the time of the band’s 30th anniversary:

“Sting is in talks to re-form The Police and tour with the group – 30 years after they were formed. The band, who rank alongside The Rolling Stones and The Beatles among the greats of rock, are considering playing a series of dates in the UK next summer.”

Like GnR’s long-awaited Chinese Democracy release and Sting’s long-delayed tantric release, I’ll believe this piece of reunion news when I actually see it.

Related streaming audio: The Police at NYC’s Bottom Line on 4/3/79; and in Minneapolis on 5/24/79; and in Roslyn, Lawn Gisland on 10/2/79.