It wasn’t a master plan to go out on top, as the band essentially had to call it quits because they couldn’t get along long enough to record anything more. Still, few bands leave them wanting more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Synchronicity became the swansong record for the trio of Sting, drummer ...

It can be easy to forget that The Police’s incredible run, culminating in pop superstardom, lasted essentially just seven years. From the time they formed in 1977 until the conclusion of their ...

Now, a new super-deluxe, six-disc box set, Synchronicity (40th Anniversary Edition), reveals all of the magicians’ tricks with hours of demos, alternate versions of the songs with different lyrics, ...

“After five formative years and five albums, you grow apart,” drummer Stewart Copeland told Musician in 1983. “Now, the only thing that the three of us have in common is onstage and on that album.

In December 1982, the Police flew to the Caribbean to record their fifth album. The executives at A&M Records were excited. A year earlier, the trio had leavened their raw, guitar-driven sound with ...

The Police only lasted from 1977 to 1984, but they managed to accomplish quite a bit in those seven years. They began playing tiny clubs around London just as punk was breaking, and ended by selling ...

"Effect without a cause / Sub-atomic laws / scientific pause ..." Hey, The Police song "Synchronicity I" had it right, after all! Here pasty physicist Jim Beale (Chad McKnight) and his assistants, ...