The Police Channel4 "Other side of the tracks" 1984

[@TwelveDeck]

Stewart's talking about scaling more rock mountains while Sting is saying there are no more peaks to climb.

[@giuliopoli69]

1st time I see Sting sat close to Stewart without beating each other :-)

[@hellobonappetit1657]

love

[@7389]

Almost though! 2:26 LOL

[@kenh3961]

This is when they were pretty much done as a musical act, and just drifting on auto pilot. Sting pretty much already decided he was on to his solo career and was doing a very bad job hiding the secret, by "not" sounding too exuberant about climbing a "higher peak" with the Police. I think they went in the studio and recorded a cool version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" for the greatest hits album, did one or two more very short, live performances and then we didn't see them again for over 20 years. But I am glad they did the "one off" world tour in the 2000's. The Police will forever go down as a top 10 "great band" of rock.

[@charlesmartel3995]

Well said!

[@drummer78]

All true except that 1986 remake of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” being a cool version.

[@widescreennavel]

Sting is problematic. He really stands out as selfish and ego driven. Gotta wonder what he was thinking, he soon ran out of music ideas and at the time of the reunion he was in a state of writer's block. His best work was with Stewart's band and inside Sting knows this. Why hire musicians to simply ape the parts created by Andy and Copeland? So sad to see money become the log in someone's eyes after you loved them for their talent so much.

[@jeshkam]

@@drummer78 It is for some people.

[@vikingfortiesfaeroes]

​@@widescreennavel My theory is that Sting had aspirations to become a truly remarkable artist like David Sylvian, but unlike Sylvian, he wasn't prepared to put everything into the music with the possibility of losing mainstream interest. Hence the mediocrity that his solo albums are riddled with.

[@slaymakerc]

Stuart got the final word, but Sting had his middle finger up. He knew they had peaked

[@EnglishMike]

Nah. Brits didn't use the middle finger at all back then. We used the V-sign (or the reverse victory sign), and still do mostly. If you're an American in the UK just be careful how you indicate you want two of something.

[@funkster007]

@@EnglishMike Sting used to flip the bird often. Maybe not a "UK" thing, but it's universal anyway.

[@fizzyfuzz5878]

At the end of the interview you saw the end of the band. Stewart tried his best to save face, but like Sting said it was Everest. They sold out the most iconic venues, had a number 1 song and album in the US and UK. Sting didn't want to risk diminishing returns and was on to the next challenge as a soloist. Too bad his time as a true rock musician ended with The Police too, great band.

[@grahamjarman]

rock is a young mans game

[@Me-gt7oy]

The 80’s was the greatest decade.

[@80srenaissance67]

By far

[@paulmichael5567]

I love how stewart gets his years mixed up on the very first question of the interview and stings facial expression is priceless!!

[@crapple009]

Resulting in Sting calling Stewart a 'dork'.

[@banjopink4409]

The boots on the other foot now that Sting's dementia has kicked in.

[@jml-rj5re]

The interview is being filmed in 1983 for broadcast in 1984, hence the almost deliberate mistake by Copeland and breaking the 5th wall.

[@jeshkam]

@@jml-rj5re Agreed. It must have been towards the very end of 1983, hence the producers telling them to pretend it's already 1984 I guess.

[@miekgenklefin9616]

35 years later and still cool. New Orleans, none the less. Thanks.

[@t3br00k35]

If Sting had never met Stewart Copeland and his brother...

[@FrankonKX96]

Notice the stealthy bird Sting is flipping near the end of this while Stewart is talking about scaling another mountain. Wow, what a pompous c...

[@banjopink4409]

Not that stealthy.

[@EnglishMike]

He's British. It was the 80s and he's a child of the 50s. Flipping the bird was not something Brits from that era did. They used the V-sign, like Americans use to indicate they want two of something. I've had countless Americans unconsciously flipping me the V-sign over the last 30 years of living in the US. Still feels like a little dig at me even though I know they don't know they're doing it.

[@albertturner1039]

Sting never made music close to the level he did with these two. Andy and Stew brought out the best in his songwriting - and he theirs - and they kept Sting from being the adult contemporary artist he became. He needed them as much as they needed him.

[@bimalrai21]

Finally, I have someone who agrees with me.......3 Decades later.

[@slider3215]

@Viewing account The Ship was self indulgant shite

[@francoandreacchi513]

Dance alone, englishman,fragile ,desert Rose ,sister moon. Pura genialidad madura, su fruta sigue verde y eso es un poco the police

[@thornbird6768]

Sting is not a solo artist 👎🏻 he should be in a band , he should have stayed in the Police . They had another album in them for sure .

[@paulf2898]

Stings solo work was some of the best he's ever done,hugely successful, Englishman in New York,desert rose,fields of gold to name but a few...the police had gone stale by 83 it was just meant to be

[@elsabewium4450]

I love your talk shows, listening to you talking !!!

[@betamax-vhs-super8978]

The reason they are getting the years mixed up is because they shot it in 1983 and were told it would air in 1984 and to pretend it’s 1984.

[@jaggass]

Stewart Copeland's voice is much deeper now.

[@globalmonkey007]

Andy is in his 40s in these interviews (he was born in 1942) but looks like the youngest of the three.

[@warrenvollaro2529]

There is definitely tension in the air on this interview as its obvious sting is out of there 3 alpha males cant last long but i think its great many years later they got back together and were more amazing as a band again because they had so much growth as individuals, cheers to them and us as there faithful audience

[@diegomorales8616]

This is the only footage I've found of Stewart Copeland speaking with a British accent. 11:49

[@petecamiolo4955]

His mother is British

[@mongoosemotive]

Stewert and sting acted like brothers that love and hate each other

[@harveylee51]

@monoosexxXXXXXXX Sting has often said that about their relationship while all three of them had egos , Sting and Stewart had the really obvious brother like antagonism . and this i think contributed to their music which i still love 🎶 🎵

[@mongoosemotive]

@@harveylee51 agreed

[@CJ4S147]

I also think that if what Stewart says in the interview is true they all recognized that the other guys in the band weren’t run of the mill musicians or one trick ponies at least eventually if not pretty quickly.

[@robertk2007]

Andy is such a rock star here

[@johannwolf1]

Wow... that intro. Humanity has changed.

[@123spleege]

The Police were essentially broken up at the time this video was released. Also, later in the same year, Wall of Voodoo was done.

[@JasonAchilles]

crazy how they're talking about the Shea Stadium, "next time" and so forth...what to possibly do to top it. Obviously we know how that turned out

[@SheepProd_YT]

Jason Achilles they're still of the mindset that they couldn't have done anything to top that.

[@tinfoilhatter]

@@SheepProd_YT they had, after all, already attain'd-the-toppermost-of-the-poppermost~

[@vikingfortiesfaeroes]

Seems like the exact same thing happened to The Clash

[@paulf2898]

Spread a little happiness is a great song/version by sting from the film brimstone and treacle

[@paulnotdownunder3172]

Andy is really the style guy of the 80's everyone relates to.

[@SRDhain]

Vince Clarke wrote the theme for this. You can see/hear it in one of the episodes somewhere on KZbin. Great interview 👍

[@emileedavis4263]

Roxanne is my favorite police song. I like how sting said that it was probably his favorite they do. Cool

[@jamesmaslin3612]

ive just AI'd this although im not sure about the actual accuracy of the attendance they quote :- The Police's concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia during the Synchronicity US tour on June 24, 1983, had an audience attendance of approximately **75,000 people**. This concert was part of a series of successful shows the band performed during that tour, which was in support of their album "Synchronicity."

[@dricadrica8955]

🥁 sempre lindo! Mais jovem ou mais velho. 😻

[@CJ4S147]

I found this interview of Stewart interesting. Im not going to quibble over the word genius. I do think that all 3 were extremely accomplished musicians who did things that others haven’t and I really enjoy most of the songs they made as the Police. I can’t get through the one with the screaming I think synchronicity 2. I will admit being born about the same time as their heyday but I can’t help that. Some of the stuff Sting does and did combining tunes and chords I do find mind blowing. Honestly I don’t understand any of it at the level they do but for me personally what Mr Sumner does is the easiest to get into as I try in my way to sing a song and play the chords I think sound good all at once fairly regularly.

[@FrontmanVideo]

It seems like a lot of people see Sting as the pompous jerk in the Stewart/Sting relationship, but in my opinion, Stewart seems like a personality that's impossible to be around for long periods of time. And the way Sting deals with it makes everyone look at Sting like he's the jerk. Sting's and Stu's personalities are so opposite and it's a wonder the Police lasted as long as they did because of that. Stewart's an awesome drummer and I admire the guy and what he's done, but his personality would drive me up the wall.

[@banjopink4409]

He's intelligent. Sting is less so.

[@pinksin103]

You have 3 geniuses in one group, tensions are going to arise! Andy was probably the one stuck in the middle, he was a genius too though make no mistake.

[@banjopink4409]

@@pinksin103 You have a low bar for genius, don't you?

[@pinksin103]

@@banjopink4409 3 piece band creating music better than anyone else in history! So NO!

[@banjopink4409]

@@pinksin103 Your enjoyment of their music doesn't make them geniuses.

[@MrAero164]

"He does it everyday" LOL

[@TheKinoEye]

For us Kents, Klerks and Kunts here, the interview is @8:26 - @9:16

[@mojopin70]

The sad thing is i remember that channel 4 intro.

[@banjopink4409]

The sad thing is that you still think it's _really rad, man_ .

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

No tension at all here. Lol

[@thenumbertwentytoo]

WHAT KIND OF JACKET IS STING WEARING I NEED IT.

[@banjopink4409]

Straight, my friend - all the way up.

[@warrenvollaro2529]

I think it's a design from the movie dune

[@margitouma6172]

RIP Miles Copeland

[@smikusko]

You mean Ian. Ian died in 2006; MIles is still around.

[@peterhopqk]

@@smikusko maybe he meant father Miles?

[@rinohunter6190]

Sting is not a team player, what a baby!

[@emileedavis4263]

When sting said that I die. I keep laughing at the face he made and the way he shook his head.

[@cjsligojones5101]

I love Sting's reaction to "well I still have his ten inch" 8:00

[@tinfoilhatter]

i had miss'd that, dang it! the comments, after all, are at-best a distraction!

[@guillermosahuquillo4499]

Andy and Sting spent the morning at the same salon.

[@FrankieLovesElvis]

Isn’t this after the breakup? I totally love this band and always will. 😊

[@tinfoilhatter]

sting is bored while the other guys are talkin', it's charming, isn't it? haha! i'd've been *pyst*, had i known i'd missed this!

[@gavinthorburn5385]

Rumblefish song guitar sounds like andy summers guitar sound

[@ULTIMATEPATCHES]

Yes, the tone AND the voicings. Good chance it was Andy. Or a very good copycat. That said, Stewart plays guitar well so it could be him.

[@pablo-pp6tc]

Haha voices heard like helium effect

[@theredheadsaidNYC]

the Police's personal dynamic is hilarious. Sting and Stewart are like the bickering younger and middle brother, Andy is the older brother who is SO OVER IT ALREADY

[@jonlewis4002]

Sting is fucking brilliant & very gracious considering the situation. Without Sting's Genius you would never hear of Stewart or Andy. Stewart is an awesome guy and great drummer but he always put forward that the police was "HIS" band. Sting made it possible for them to go mainstream. Stewart's songs are clever and OK but not mainstream. Klark Kent was good but ultimately wouldn't go the distance. Andy is, as Sting puts it " a reservoir of talent". Bottom line -- Stewart and Andy were great musicians that helped Sting realize his songs and bring them to life.

[@davidsanderson5918]

To be fair so much of what always made a Police song great was that engine room of musical talent, Andy and Stewart. No denying Sting is one of the greatest songwriters in pop history but don't forget, for instance, it was Andy that came up with that distinctive guitar part running through the whole of Every Breath You Take. That in itself, typifies how credit doesn't always go where credit's due!

[@_6079SMITH]

I'll put this question out there,,, Would STING have had success WITHOUT Stewart and Andy ??? I'll say he may have had mixed success and possibly faded away. Sting needed the other guys as much as they needed him.

[@EnglishMike]

​@@_6079SMITHImpossible to say. Sting was very talented and a fast learner so there's a good chance he would have had a good career in the music industry, but the odds of becoming a megastar are very low at the best of times. It's also true that without the fame and fortune that came with being in The Police he would not have been in the same position to have a successful solo career.

[@TylerOV]

Personally, I think Sting’s solo career is proof enough that The Police were as great as they were because of each individual member. I get that he was going for a different style of music, but if it weren’t for the other 2 members of the group, they wouldn’t have sounded the same. Too bad about the personality clash.

[@jonlewis4002]

@@_6079SMITH I think it's a great question. In the end I think they all help each other realize there ambitions. Personally I don't think sting what I had the mega success he's had without the synergy of the police. He might have just stayed in that last exit band in Newcastle. Will never know 🙂

[@robertk2007]

Sting wrote moon over Bourbon Street while there

[@jamesmaslin3612]

By today standards, the polices audiences in the 80s were big , but not that big, they played shea and other stadiums on the 83/84 us tour to like 20,000 , 40,000 , 50,000 sizes, and the biggest shea at 67,000 they played JFK stadium, but im not sure what the audience size was for that , perhaps around 50,000 to 60,000, and some larger festivals (which probably dont really count as being police standalone shows) what they did do however was set the blueprint for the bands that followed like U2 to really have huge audiences at their shows, like 80,000 , 90,0000 on consecutive nights at the same venue, something the police never really did at that huge scale, but having said that , at the time the police tour was a big tour just not by todays standards.

[@scottharrison3391]

Little did they know that Sting would soon desert them.

[@paulwilkinson8099]

they did , he told them before the iconic Shea stadium gig .

[@TwelveDeck]

Desert? The other guys didn't own him!

[@naeemakhtar928]

@@TwelveDeck it was desertion and treason

[@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

SELLOUTS SELLOUTS SELLOUTS

[@jamesmaslin3612]

always quoted as the biggest show of the tour , the shea stadium show was 67,000 way less than the quoted below value of 75,000 for the JFK show. im tempted to believe that the 75,000 quoted for the JFK show is incorrect,

[@ferabra8939]

This is around the time that Sting was approached to play Zorin in A view to a kill.

[@dravenarcane2735]

Andy is the Derek Smalls ( Spinal Tap) of the Police

[@leonhantz6383]

Think they made the right choice with Walken, Sting is not a good actor

[@thornbird6768]

@@leonhantz6383 he was good in lock stock and two smoking barrels 👍🏻

[@vikingfortiesfaeroes]

@@leonhantz6383 Obviously Walken is phenomenal, but I've always thought the Zorin character was underdeveloped. Sting taking the role may well have been the end of him as an actor.

[@WeLuv9x5]

Sadly, by this point, Sting had subscribed to his own shit and became an insufferable twat. Stewart couldn’t handle the fact that his band was now Sting’s band, and ego consumed both men. Andy had a front row seat to this most unfortunate implosion. Sad that ego got into the way of this trio’s creative genius. Now that Sting’s solo has cooled off; these now mature men need a post-Synchronicity album! For this is why you don’t subscribe to your own shit!

[@ULTIMATEPATCHES]

Sting's solo record afforded him complete autonomy and he loved that. It's sad he could not do both the Police AND solo, but so it goes.

[@3093DaNieLe3093]

You can see at the very end Sting didnt want to continue,Andy knew that and accepted but Stewart dint want to split just becouse they could only go down from up there but he didnt care.He just wanted to play with this guys and produce stuff,there could ve been another mountain to climb,not fame related. Sting during his solo career made another 3-4 exellent albums ,but didnt want to have andy and steward "fuckin him up".

[@doodlebob3758]

All of them are on peruvian table salt, there's digs at each other by lack of eye contact, they're all speaking as individuals rather than as a band. This is peak tabloid publicity, these three dudes were perfect for entertainment.

[@eltorpedo67]

i've just skimmed through this...does Andy ever say a single word?

[@dravenarcane2735]

Andy is the Derek Smalls ( Spinal Tap) of the Police

[@jacquesbrault6939]

And did andy had to ?

[@tinfoilhatter]

andy waits...ben folds wrote that song-for-him, that's what-i-think! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZrLlGiKgL2Baas

[@dripstein6130]

@@dravenarcane2735 LMAO

[@jeremywanner4526]

Id forgotten how weird the 80s were

[@gonzaloreyes8782]

Sting bullying Stewart as always

[@tinfoilhatter]

he was fierce, right? what-the-heck-happened to him, anyway, right?

[@rarefiedhermetic792]

Andy looks like Yoko Ono

[@hoisin75]

Stingo sounds a lot less Geordie here?!

[@dancarter482]

He was still doing his pathetic Mid Atlantic bullshit fake accent thing at this point partly 'cause he thought he could be a big star in films/could actually act.

[@thornbird6768]

He never really sounded like a Geordie , elocution lessons maybe ?

[@paulf2898]

Stewart sounds remarkably English too??

[@hoisin75]

@@paulf2898 yeah, he does a bit. they've all clearly spent TOO much time together at this point

[@abbynormal34]

I don't care... no no.. I don't care...no no.

[@tinfoilhatter]

y'know they were something it was reportedly not-easy-to-be, tho, right?

[@banjopink4409]

@@tinfoilhatter Please continue.

[@m.omoirokingyo]

sting is done with them here

[@danielbytheway2216]

Say what you will (and we all do)..The Police is in rarefied air. Sting as a solo act had decent songs but nothing compared to the magic of the original 3. The solo years will never be remembered, period. Most of those songs are forgettable now from Turtles to the plethora of others and covers and remakes. You can't reproduce the Mona Lisa but die trying. What a waste. Hello Stones

[@22heloise22]

Was the flip off an accident?

[@EnglishMike]

Yes. Brits didn't use the middle finger back in the 70s and 80s and sting would have grown up flipping the V-sign instead. Any American indicating they want two of something while in the UK are doing what Sting did in the video.

[@deniseg812]

sold out because of the scalpers.

[@SwappingIsSaving]

Sting looks utterly bored. He was still in the ascendant as a writer but peaked artistically afaic on Soul Cages. The recent album/tour with Shaggy was a f disgrace.

[@thewomble1509]

He's been going rapidly downhill since Sacred Love. No inspiration anymore.

[@tinfoilhatter]

@@thewomble1509 the 'shaggy phase' was bad huh? to this day, i still have not been able to bring meself-to-look at or listen to that, haha

[@thewomble1509]

@@tinfoilhatter It all went wrong when he got that Lute!

[@tinfoilhatter]

@@thewomble1509 'brand new day', was bittersweet for me... and that's more than a couple decades, since anything's been, well, twentieth-century,,,,

[@jml-rj5re]

@@thewomble1509 Sacred Love isn't that Good. Everything past Brand News Day is all decay. Still Nothing Like the Sun, Soul Cages and Ten Summoner's Tales are masterpieces. The only thing that could have saved Sting's last 2 albums were if they were recorded by the Police.

[@Thejbirdy]

Stang........post Sting.

[@dynjarren8355]

What an Ego Copland has! He mentions he’ll be ready to direct soon after watching Coppola direct. He never directed a damn thing! My guess is that it was too much work for too little reward.

[@ImpartiallySpeaking]

Like Van Halen, The Police should have got themselves a new lead singer and continued to new creative heights

[@fizzyfuzz5878]

Sting's voice and presence was too iconic, it never would've worked. Plus he wrote the hits.

[@ImpartiallySpeaking]

@@fizzyfuzz5878 Van Halen proved no lead singer / songwriter is irreplaceable! Sammy took them to a whole different level and the same could have happened with Stewart’s band.. Bruno Mars would do a phenomenal job. And Sting is unlikely to object where he’s still reliant on using Andy’s guitar riffs every night of the week. It won’t happen of course as Stewart’s pretty much at retirement age but the band could definitely have gone on to new things without Sting just as Eddie Van Halen did after ditching DLR

[@randypeppercorn1865]

Why not Stewart? 8:26 😆

[@samsingh3753]

It was stings idea to disband because he wanted more money by going solo ,which ithink its boring

[@gw2031]

You forget how arty fatty some aspects of the 80,s were ,,an Edge interview over 8 pages about landscapes juxtapositioned by minimalism yada yada ,,no wonder U2 decided to start laughing a bit more in 90,s .

[@deanl0]

At the very end of this Copeland adds a lil' magic touch , that the peak of the mountain seems to always be moving all Up .. but on the other side of the mountain it's ... really is that it to be on Top . 🏔⛰🌄

[@SalvoPetruzzelli]

Stewart batte Sting 1000 a zero

[@Maldoror200]

💀..what "other side"..? Opening segment was ALL "top 40" clowns 🤡..(..'klooding "thee Pleece"..ugh..)

[@MaySecond07]

much too full of themselves....it was over

[@Augfordpdoggie]

that rumblefish song is awful

[@mellamodiego8458]

I see Sting as just laughing at Stewart Copeland....i actually see it in a lot of interviews because Stewart acts like he is the leader of the band, but he is not. He really should have just shut up and let Sting be the leader and since Sting wrote the lyrics and a lot of the melodies and sang....creative questions should of been handled by Sting...I’m not saying Stewart couldn’t put his 2 cents in....he just should of taken more of a back seat in the band imo. Because honestly it would have annoyed me too.

[@rinohunter6190]

Sid - except the questions were directed at Stewart

[@hijodetupa]

Shut up you know nothing of the police or about Music.

[@hijodetupa]

Stewart is as Alpha Male as Sting, you just dont see it.. The Police would be nothing without Stewart Reggae and innovative battery rythms.... then comes Sting.

[@3hooks781]

Stewart formed the band. His brother managed them. Done.

[@tinfoilhatter]

@@DonHalli well said: but they all made many many great tracks, and bands, hell, stretching out acrost-light-years, jack, after the police, man, *frack*!

[@MrKingalow]

Fuckin top class

[@ULTIMATEPATCHES]

So are the Oilers :)

[@naeemakhtar928]

This just proves bands with one songwriter are pointless just call it a solo thing