The Police - Roxanne live 1980 | The Police Excommunicated Sting Summers Copeland

The Police - Roxanne live 1979 | The Police Excommunicated Sting Summers Copeland

"Sting was staying in my apartment in London. We had just come back from Paris on an absolutely appalling little run. We didn’t get paid…but he had been walking around, seeing what in those days were called streetwalkers, and come up with this idea for the song. He was playing to himself on this nylon-string guitar in a little bossa nova rhythm. A few days later, we were rehearsing and a bit hard up for material… We said, “Well, what about that ‘Roxanne’ piece?” “We can’t do that, it’s bossa nov

ROXANNE - THE POLICE Canción de 1978 de la banda británica The Police. Escrita por Sting, fue lanzada como sencillo junto al tema Peanuts e incluida en el álbum debut Outlandos d'Amour. Antes había sido publicada en un álbum de jóvenes talentos ingleses titulado No Wave. Sting se inspiró en un cartel de Cyrano de Bergerac en la que una de sus protagonistas se llama Roxanne y en el ambiente que vio mientras caminaba por el barrio rojo de París. Llegó al número 12 en el Reino Unido. | The songs of

Take a trip down memory lane with all of The Police performances on Top of The Pops throughout the years. Which performance was your favourite? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007y135 | The Police

THE POLICE LIVE 1986! The Police first reunion tour, was a brief three concerts that Sting, Andy and Stewart performed in 1986, since their last 'Synchronicity Tour 1983-1984', to support Amnesty International, during the 'Conspiracy of Hope Tour' in different stadiums, with other big names like U2, Bruce Springsteen, Brian Adams and more. The main act and surprise of this tour was The Police and in a way was considered the main point that they used to give the title of best band of the world to

No one would be complaining at a five hour Police concert...The Police on Elvis Costello's Spectacle in 2009. | The Police