“I used to be horrible to work with, I used to be unsympathetic, aggressive, imply, egocentric, egotistical.” The Police have been by no means buddies, so Sting discovering coke circa Ghost In The Machine was at all times going to finish badly

“All for one, one for all? Fuck that. That is very restricted. I am out for myself and so they understand it!” 

By December 1980, The Police have been on high of the world. Launched two months earlier, their second album, Zenyatta Mondatta, debuted at primary within the UK, with Do not Stand So Shut To Me, their third UK primary single, changing into the biggest-selling single of the yr. In America, they have been set to headline New York’s legendary Madison Sq. Backyard, in Australia the album had additionally topped the nation charts. But when this type of success sounds just like the dream for any younger band, it  was accompanied by tensions which threatened to tear the band aside. Speaking to Basic Rock in 2023, guitarist Andy Summers acknowledged that by this level, he had determined that he was “working with two complete arseholes.”

The quote originally of this text got here from Sting, the band’s vocalist/bassist chatting with English music author Phil Sutcliffe for The Police: L’Historia Bandido, a band biography he was working upon with fellow author Hugh Fielder. “So long as the group is beneficial for my profession I will keep,” Sting added. “When it is not I will drop it like a stone… I do generally assume, I would like this to finish.”

“The artist in me is in search of loss of life, it is in search of destruction.”