The Police – Bring On The Night
The Police’s Bring On the Night on Reggatta de Blanc (1979): Last Exit roots, Summers air, Copeland restraint, Sting low.
The Police – Walking on the Moon
The Police’s Walking on the Moon (1979): Munich rewrite, spare bass, Summers gaps, UK No. 1.
The Police – Three-piece tension built for radio
Stewart Copeland, Sting, and Andy Summers built five albums in five years by mixing reggae off-beats, jazz-trained chord work, and new-wave energy into a trio format that radio could not ignore.
The Police – Message In A Bottle
In 1979, at Surrey Sound in Leatherhead, Sting's guitar figure became The Police's first British No. 1.