The Police Reunion Tour
(photo courtesy of thepolicetour.com)
I know this news may have already reached it’s saturation point. It’s been blogged about by cooler people all over this internet box, discussed on morning talk shows, promoted on Q104 commercials, and there’s even a full article about it in today’s ny times. But I fucking love The Police, and now it’s my turn.
I always thought I was born 20 years too late, and The Police is one of the reasons. I was 15 when I finally fell in love. I had heard their songs a thousand times before, but it wasn’t until then that I finally listened. The bass lines, the frenetic drumming, the high-pitched boy singing about messages in bottles and prostitutes and being the omega man–I wished (and prayed) that I lived in 1982. But the year 2000 was quite a few years past the zenith of the Police, and by that point the band was just the former biggest band in the world, and nowhere near reuniting. Sting was riding high on his Brand New Day success, scoffing anytime he was asked the requisite question of if the three boys would ever tour again.
