Was there ever such a thing as a "world tour"?
Will there ever be? Who knows, but The Police tried to get things going in that direction 40 years ago.
My new piece on the reissue of The Police’s longform video The Police Around The World just went up on PopMatters.
The Police Around the World reminds us that the world is still a big place—much more vast and incomprehensible than we can imagine, even in an age when footage from faraway places appears on our timelines daily. Over the last four-plus decades since the Police did their best to sail off the edge of the earth, we’ve only inched towards the kind of trans-national touring model that the band’s then-manager Miles Copeland wanted the band to pave the way for.
You can read the rest here, and you can listen to my lengthy interview with Police guitarist Andy Summers here, as well as my career-spanning playlist here.
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