The Police - When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around

[@dragonfly1694]

The song with one riff, with no traditional structure, also Copeland's most straight performance devoid of fills & accents, all capped off with Summers' scorching one note guitar solo. How The Police could turn such a basic concept into a complex work of art was part of their genius.

[@groovytrev]

It's one of my favourite tracks by them. There's something in it's relative simplicity that hooks me every time I hear it. Then there's the live sequence in the middle of this video where Stewart and Sting's playing gives it a whole new dimension.

[@Blessedbeyondmeasur88]

@@groovytrev yes and Andy’s splendid guitar!

[@jsk29]

Saw them in Rio in '82, I was 14 and I ran away from home in Campinas, took an 8 hour bus ride, a cab and scalped a ticket. I called my parents from a payphone in Rio to tell them I was OK. Got grounded, 1000% worth it.

[@HarryJoiner]

Where did they play in Rio?

[@jsk29]

@@HarryJoiner Yes, Rio at the Maracanazinho

[@HarryJoiner]

@jsk29 is that a smaller version of the giant soccer stadium? I’ve been to maracaná. That was massive. It had a moat around the field.

[@HarryJoiner]

@ is that a smaller version of the giant football stadium? I’ve been to maracaná. That was massive. It had a moat around the field.

[@ImpartiallySpeaking]

Sting has travelled the world for almost half a century but the very first time he saw the world was touring with the police. It was all new to him back in those days which created an atmosphere and vibe through the music that’s unique to those early records

[@zalenaskye700]

Yes I miss the 80's

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Me too Hun

[@patton303]

I’ve probably watched Police Around The World a thousand times since it came out. That part where Sting and Stewart are locked with Sting riffing high on the neck and then Andy’s long 16th note single string scream bringing the whole groove back still blows my fucking mind. One of the best live recordings of all time. Long live The Police.

[@ATXviIIIe]

I loved that whole video! Watched it many times. Turned on my VCR….is that what he sings?

[@TheJohnnyCotts]

@@ATXviIIIe That is correct. In 1980, when the song came out, VCR's were still a relatively new-fangled gadget. Now, they're ancient history.

[@groovytrev]

The instrumental section elevates the song to a whole new level.

[@ImpartiallySpeaking]

The world was a new place to sting back them. He’d never been to Japan before, or places like South America. I do think that age of everything being exciting and new created a vibe that came through the music which is unique to those early Police albums. I heard The Police Self Portrait on the radio about 1984 and remember sting talking about a spirit of adventure that was completely new.

[@stevejrs]

Great song. Underrated on the album.

[@lefkytheshin]

Sh*t! Absolutely love the way it jumps from studio to live back to studio. Love these guys.

[@mstephens44]

Damn! That live portion was tight as hell. This is why they were one of the best 3 man bands in history.

[@briandavis9921]

the one note solo that sounds better then most solos with more then one note Fantastic! the Great! Andy Summers

[@ouchcubic]

kind of like his buddy , bob fripp.

[@jackiconti7118]

I have loved the police since the 80's n my #1 fav song since I was 13 and to this day at 48 til im gone! ♡♡♡

[@laemperatriz2504]

Me too! Same story and I think we're the same age bc I'm 49 now :)

[@JudithJohnson]

Oh me too

[@emendez3809]

I’m glad I was around in the 80’s music... Nothing better than this. 👍🏻

[@AD-xi9hy]

Except the 70s and 60s

[@hippojuice23]

I love simplistic, dumb, glossy generalizations that have no real significance other than to get strangersto agree with you!.

[@OldJerzyDevil]

​@@hippojuice23🖐️🚫 To enhance Calm Rationality PLEASE don't feed the Trolls 🤯😎🖖

[@davecoalwood9487]

​@@hippojuice23 prick

[@Rj-hu2fi]

That live interlude sounds so good!

[@curtiswhiteheadjr1322]

My absolute favorite cut from The Police! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Mine too Hun

[@Donjonneau]

This songs speaks to me a lot... I need to concretize what is left of my possibilities, so wide are they, but so heavy is my anxiety and procrastination. The wrestle ensues.

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

This is absolutely a fucking brilliant song you can dance and rock out big time I'm.45 from New York City

[@jonahsemyonov9985]

The best band of the 80's!

[@zacharyschnepp4860]

One of the greatest three-piece bands ever

[@MrJohnnyfarragut]

2:20 Only Andy can make a one-note solo sound cool

[@quentinjames981]

Valid point but is it a guitar solo though? More like a bass solo with the guitar creating ambience IMO

[@richey_rock]

Neil Young (via Cinnamon Girl) begs to differ.

[@groovytrev]

​@@quentinjames981could almost argue it's a three point solo with the way Stewart Copeland is playing in the instrumental section.

[@quentinjames981]

@@groovytrev Right!! Damn 5 years ago I wrote that comment… Nothings changed this is still my anthem!

[@sljf555]

I played this album to death when I was a child back in 1981, this is the first time I'm seeing this video.

[@groovytrev]

This is from a documentary type film that came out in 1982 called The Police Around The World which followed them on their 1980/81 world tour which is available to watch on KZbin.

[@craig68able]

2:53 pure master craftsmen.. that break down from live to album version is just out of this world AMAZING!!!!

[@rafaelperalta1611]

The first time I see The Police was in Chile in February in 1982 in The Festival de Viña de Mar. The Police is Power. A big hug from Easter Island Chile 26 June 2021.

[@josemengal5339]

Love this song and the highlights were the guitar riff, the bass riff, the drum hit sounds like a drum machine, and finally that horns that give an awesome style to the song.

[@danielmarquis5258]

My #1 FAVORITE Band!! I am crazy about this group.

[@nancyrupp5893]

Mine too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Roonlovesfish3874]

Mine too and me too!!!

[@SeatLeonMK2]

I know everything

[@josemengal5339]

One of the best live versions of WTWIRD... for me the best... love the horns, guitar and bass solo, that beat on the electronic snare and Sting shout...

[@anthursan]

Cuando el mundo se está agotando, sacas lo mejor de lo que queda.....

[@jackiconti7118]

this original video collaborated w/live footage is awesome, my all time #1 song of theirs, i could listen to andys cords on this forever track forever!!! ♡♡♡

[@kinetickid100]

The Covid-19 confinement tune at it's best ! Love this song

[@popvinnik]

FYI...the poster did not create the studio/live mix. This is a clip from the 1982 movie Police Around The World.

[@Guitfiddlejase]

I really enjoyed your video combining studio and live..thanks for your efforts and thank you for posting..!

[@kinetickid100]

It's actually off "The Police Around The World" video release

[@Astburysring]

We’ll all be able to see this in clearer vision when the newly released DVD and cd comes out in May this year.....

[@cal26restaurantcastelloli98]

Pure talent

[@davidwoodrow5287]

I like the Police and have a few albums on cd and liked their music very much.

[@tamitamm08]

This tune, they did that! !!!!

[@edwardespina850]

Saw this band at aloha Stadium in Hawaii awesome concert that was!

[@DropAnchor1978]

I feel like I am waiting for Moonraker's "Jaws" character to appear on that Brazillian cable car at any minute.

[@ouchcubic]

Damn Gordon was so good looking. they were great live. all 3 are fine musicians. but there were personalty clashes , some pretty big egos. they are each dominant persons, and each are very intelligent , and well educated. Strong willed . but the gnarly little centipedes of success grind away at us. alas , brilliance is never sustained without sacrifice. or pain of death. or worse, rejection. cheers!

[@fabricioassismg5622]

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! First time in 1982!

[@rafaelbaraldo9526]

1980

[@guyjones3665]

That drum SOUND

[@jjaniero]

Beautiful job Andy Lukosius

[@Rickman357]

Loved how @ 1:02 kicked in !!🤣🤙

[@privateconfidential4775]

2022: In the 80s after john Lennon’s death bands like this was all there was in terms of rock music and even these bands were retro as I didn’t get their greatest hits til 86 or so ; so they were already nostalgia for me; hope my health improves so I can see the light again in my own life; I mean that from my heart

[@juaniortelli2705]

3:08 look behind Sting closely

[@thewomble1509]

copeland must have had a trampoline!

[@nancyrupp5893]

Sooooo love this song and video!!!!!!!!

[@TheKinoEye]

Greasy Tony's, a New Brunswick NJ joint. Stewart wearing their shirt around the world, waay before made popular in Revenge of The Nerds. A true trendsetter that Copeland he is.

[@hankhill3417]

Great music

[@hmoreno724]

A song for these times

[@desmondknox]

the video it's so cool I always think rio and the police

[@Edileneable]

Meus amores na minha cidade em 1982! R"YO" de Jane"YrO"!🌷🌷🌷

[@ksturmer5388]

Awesome!!

[@drpoundsign]

Rolling Stone dissed "Ghosts in the Machine" but some Good tracks on THAT one, Too. ...and, their "Bassist" played an actual Double-Bass!

[@rubynovel]

Keep your boombox videos and CDs👍♥️

[@stevef3453]

Nice video...thanks for uploading..unfortunately for me, this tour, off of what I think is my favorite of any album of all time, ghosts, had way too much up-tempo, sting improv Rearrangements of such great songs, it was actually a very difficult concert to listen to. The horns, that were so great on the album were really awful. Almost every song they played sounded different from the studio recording. I get that artist s get bored, but people don’t pay to hear completely different variants of their favorite songs. They got slightly back on track with the synchronicity tour, probably because of all the negative feedback. And unfortunately they were completely different for the reunion. Favorite band of all time and there are some really fantastic early live performances....for those who felt they weren’t really a good live band, well that was not the case. There early stuff is dazzling with each of them unbelievably talented in their own way and as a trio, magical. Unfortunately we never got to hear some of the most interesting tracks from ghost, Omegaman, darkness, etc. live.

[@sherribailey75]

The Police and The Clash are tied for Coolest Band Of All Time.

[@corporatecouriers5280]

The bass rules

[@Rickman357]

This song is so underrated, just like the Nissan Titan !!😂🤣 A hidden gem ..✌️

[@StraimanNunes]

Both the video is in Brazil, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and their live video is in Maracanzinho in 1982 when they first came to Brazil that same year. In 1:47 min we can hear metal sounds, something characteristic of Ghost in the Machine Tour.

[@SeatLeonMK2]

Metal?

[@StraimanNunes]

@@SeatLeonMK2 , Sorry, I expressed myself wrong, I meant wind instruments, like, trumpet, saxophone...

[@SeatLeonMK2]

@@StraimanNunes 2 years ago and this man reacted to my comment hahah legend!!

[@marina.albuquerque]

Obrigada!

[@ivorypm]

Coolest band in the world

[@jtsjc1]

Its a shame the entire LA Variety Arts Theater show was never released. There's quite a few clips of it on Police Around The World. The Zenyatta tour was great they were in top form. I saw them at the beginning of the east coast shows in 11/80 at the Capitol Theater.

[@leofrau5398]

amazinggggggggggg!!!!

[@desmondknox]

80s Police so much better than the reunion stuff aside from when they mixed it up with Next to you for example they were a live jam band and broke up at the wrong time....

[@groovytrev]

Looking back I'm of the opinion that The Police probably split at just about the right time and they'd taken the band as far as they could.

[@jeffreyfrank2816]

The jam bridge starting at 1:45 and going until 2:32....my god. If that doesn't give you chills, you're a corpse.

[@groovytrev]

Stewart's drumming and Sting's bass in that section are simply awesome.

[@ELIOSANFELIU]

LET THE MUSIC PLAY¡¡¡

[@denetta24]

How is it that this is my favorite Police song, and this is the first time I ever saw this video. 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@jeffreyorich]

the story of my life now

[@mightyV444]

Very cool! However that live portion seems to be filmed during their 'Ghost In The Machine' tour rather than the 'ZM' one, going by the added saxophone bits.

[@ifcdirector]

I interviewed Summers not long after this. He told me I reminded him a bit of Sting. lol

[@AD-xi9hy]

I interviewed Sting not long after your interview and he said Summers reminds him of you...

[@starvoyager7313]

The Hotness that is Sting! Mmmmm! 😍😍😍

[@Muiscpromotion]

🔥🔥🔥

[@dmelia9223]

The baseline makes it happen...

[@Semiam1]

Stew is speeding up that beat😂

[@jasonlefler3456]

The live footage is from LA, January 1981.

[@hiterss]

thank you very much .

[@salmacis81]

January 81'... the month and year which I was born

[@junioriung8214]

Here in Brasil

[@blackgargamel]

I've never seen this, why it isn't on DVD/ Blu-Ray or an official download?

[@TheJohnnyCotts]

Probably some kind of rights issues that never got straightened out.

[@crbrooks72]

This is Brasil, not Argentina. They are at Pao de Acucar / Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janiero.

[@andylukosius6155]

Thank you for correcting my mistake. I couldn't find any information about 1980-1981 The Police playing in Brazil, probably when they were playing in Argentina they could visit Brazil too just for fun or it might also be 1982.02.16-17 (this date when The Police played in Brazil).

[@luizconte838]

+Andy Lukošius they played in Rio 80 at maracanãzinho arena. sold out.

[@desmondknox]

Police in East video contains the South American tour from this period you can also find the entire tour listed some places.

[@walterlesina3313]

♥

[@jessicanolt288]

🎶😄🎶When the world is running down🎶😄🎶 You make the BEST of what's still around!!! 🎶 🎶😀🎶 🎶😄🎶😃🎶 🎶😃🎶😀🎶😄🎶 😄Awesome music!!!😀 😃😄😀Amen😃😄😀

[@Totalavulsion]

The up tempo change at 1:04 ruins this otherwise great video

[@wtcvidman]

Is this the official music video of When the World is Running Down? It definitely looks like one.

[@wtcvidman]

The thing is though they didn't use the studio version of the song throughout the video. It switches from the studio to a live performance and then back to studio. So I'm not sure.

[@mstephens44]

This came from their documentary Police Around The World. Good Documentary.

[@sportfoxes345]

Stewart always set the tempo way too fast in concert.

[@robanderson2800]

why dont they ever show the whole video??????

[@joaquimcraveiro7991]

RIO DE JANEIRO !

[@fluziladordefluturo]

\Oo Rio 😎, 🇧🇷... Agora, aquela camisa do tio 🤢 MARX foi só prá criar uma polêmica, né?

[@davidreuter727]

MENSA answer video.

[@Vincenzo-wn1or]

I run 'Deep Throat' again ... It ran for years and years ohhhhhhhhh

[@stefanvo9000]

the Police im Erfolgsjahr 1980

[@gavinc.morrison1147]

how are they all so fucking hot????

[@BarbieChaite]

the live version is too fast... so lacks the groove

[@TheJohnnyCotts]

Agreed. It just doesn't sound ... right.

[@rachelcorson3555]

2020 ..world finished

[@forum-lz6ii]

When the world is running down, you make with god up whats still around

[@stockman1514]

Why the fuck is sting wearing a Karl Marx shirt?

[@heatherrosengrant]

South America is like the Mexican Hispanic North America

[@zwartwit4892]

WHY IS STING WEARING A KARL MARX SHIRT WHAT THE FUCK

[@paulmayerpiano]

Because he's a wannabe posh intellectual twat with no clue of how reality works for people in actual Marxist countries from inside his celebrity bubble.

[@joaosales5435]

80's porn Intro! 😮

[@themopedmetallist]

As much as I admire Sting and Stu, I more stand against those kinds of ideals, just exactly HOW is a Party line vote for a Democrat ticket a sustainable option?