On April Fools’ Day, Sting walked onstage at San Jose State University’s Event Center in California and kicked off his Broken Music Tour by performing the Police classic “Message in a Bottle.” In the next eighty minutes, he and his stripped-down backing trio shocked the crowd by dusting off eleven Police songs, including deep cuts like “Demolition Man” and “Invisible Sun,” which Sting hasn’t performed since he was in the band.
It wasn’t an April Fools’ joke aimed at music fans desperate for a Police reunion — on each night of this twenty-eight-date tour, which mostly hits college campuses, Sting devotes roughly half of his set to the Police, the trio that broke up in 1984 when Sting went solo.
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