An unknown guitarist helped form one of the world's biggest bands but his career took a different direction, writes Garry Maddox. Read More
In a clever piece of cultural promotion the French Embassy and Alliance Française are touring Henry Padovani, the original guitarist of the band The Police He is currently on the Australian leg of his tour where he has performed and also given master classes. Read More
First, we got Sting's memoir, Broken Music, back in 2003. Read More
Whoever said that drummers are a breed apart was dead right. Read More
Ever since Pete Best was replaced by Ringo Starr as the drummer for the Beatles there has been a tinge of sadness about those musicians who came within a whisker of immortality. Read More
Well, "Strange Things Happen," which is the title of Copeland's new autobiography. Read More
Sting has silenced rumors of another tour with The Police - insisting a second reunion would be "dreadful and gratuitous." Read More
The rock singer Sting may be a man of furtive cool, mystical tantric talents and exotic, globe-spanning tastes, but it was his affable drummer who could always boast the more intriguing back story. Read More
Stewart Copeland, the manic beat-keeper for the Police, writes books like he whacks drums — it's all rhythm and instigation, firing first, thinking later. Read More
Nominally, the Police were punk rock, but that's only in the loosest sense of the term. The trio's nervous, reggae-injected ... Read the full The Police bio.