The right guys, playing the right music at the right time. Each came from an integral music history encompassing all forms of modern western music. From James Brown to Ravel. All three of them were filters/channels. It couldn't have been done in the absence of either of them. and it couldn't have happened at another time in history, similar to the Beatles phenomenon. What made this band work goes deeper than the music they were playing.
Just for the record - Bob Marley did not invent reggae drumming… Luv the guy but if anything, can we at least give credit to the most hard working reggae member in the Wailers : Mr Carlton Barrett. Right there with Mr Copeland on my short list of astonishing talented drummers.
@@knownote.......yes, absolutely, which is very different! Also Barrett didn’t invent reggae drumming either. An example of someone who doesn’t take in what is being conveyed and is just focused on what they want to tell us - poor communication and a very odd comment 🤷♂️
I got into the Police when they started, they were my favourite band, and I think they probably still are my favourite band. The Police are the most powerful three piece ever. Thanks Sting, Andy and Stewart ❤
Sting is an awesome bass player who I feel comfortable calling a virtuoso and an amazing vocalist. He is just a great musician and writer in all ways. Andy is an amazing guitarist who started out in Jazz and Stewart is a virtuoso on percussion who got his big break with the legendary British psych-folk-prog rock band Curved Air.
I love how they load us up with Outlandos - Top Ten fer me sorry' bout' it'. - so interesting, so personal, so happy, so rocky, so fun, so bright, e....t.....c......Bed's Too Big Without You is the sexy track on this record - so solid. Ok Bring On The Night .....Deathwish......Contact....No Time This Time......e....t.....c......
@@cpodurnell3701 rush are fucking good... it's a tricky thing...saw the show of hands tour in the late 80s at earls Court in London.. a very special show
Can't agree that the albums after Regatta De Blanc were lesser. Zenyatta was a fantastic album as was Ghost in the Machine. They always talk about the "hits" in these docs, completely disregarding "Tea in the Sahara" " Canary in a coal mine" "Spirits in the Material World". Their entire body of work from start to finish were masterpieces coming from 3 master musicians. You could hear the progression in maturity of the band's music, as the years progressed. The only regret, for me, as a drummer and a massive fan of theirs was the music we didn't get. I would have loved to have witnessed a chiller, more refined Police. Ego's got the better of them which is always the case. Sting could have gone and done his solo projects. Something to be said for bowing out while you are hot but...
Saw the guys at the Lyceum and got the first LP with a free badge, poster and on bloo vinyl, which I wish I had kept. They were excellent at the time, still pretty much unknown.
I went to see the laser rock show at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC and they played Walking on the Moon. Nobody had ever heard the song before nor had anyone ever heard of The Police. I find that very odd because every other song that was played was a well known band with a well known song.
The sick part of the music business has always been the wall of haters and unbelievers in high places you have to get through to let the people listen to your music. You get past that, people love it. Now, there is this idea that you can overcome this because of the lower cost and ease of recording, but the big business is still out there, culling and rejecting before people get a chance to listen.
I grew up in Dorking, 6 miles from Leatherhead (where Surrey Sound Studios were) and we adored The Police but we had no idea our heroes were recording and spending time in the next town down the railway line. Aargh. Its the oddest thing to hear Stewart Copeland say Leatherhead 🤣. But then, we didnt even know about Strawberry Studios IN Dorking, 10cc and so many others were in the town in the 70s whilst i was growing up and walking the streets past it! In those days it was easier for megastars to be private.
@@geezertechhead from Wikipedia (and also, I lived there and stood outside it) "Strawberry Studios South and Strawberry Mastering In 1976, Gouldman and Stewart opened a second studio, Strawberry Studios South, in a former cinema in Dorking, Surrey, following the departure of Godley and Creme. The studio had been planned before the band's split, with Stewart pointing out the Stockport studio had been in such great demand it was often difficult for 10cc to use it. He said: "Initially the studio will be just for 10cc, but we will be letting it out for block bookings of two months at a time for selected customers, other groups who want to record in comfort." The original Strawberry Studio was then referred to as Strawberry Studios North." So my apologies, I should've put, Strawberry Studios south, to placate that Mancunian braggadocio. 🙄 🥱
One of the first albums i ever bought. The others were LENE LOVICH, MADNESS,ELVIS COSTELLO,THE CLASH,even STATUS QUO (i know they don't fit in,but i liked them. YES "Drama too)
29:33 Sting’s vocals are described as feminine? I strongly disagree. Just because he’s got an impressively high vocal range, it doesn’t equate to his voice sounding feminine.
Stewart Copeland was a awsome drummer! Actually, all the musicians in the Police were very talented, all of them can sing and play there insraments, this is rare today! When Andy, Sting and Stewart were in the studio in a tropical paradise, they had spent a long time in the studio and were getting frustrated one afternoon and both Stewart and Sting went out to take a break and Andy stayed back in the studio and laid down " Every Breath You Take " little did Andy know he was writing the song that would send the band into superstardome! In 1984 they played the biggest outdoor show at the US Festival in California, Van Halen headlined that concert that was definitely a westcoast Woodstock! Xo, 47:58 Dave 😀🎸🥁🎤🔊🎶🎵🤘
@@geographyinaction7814 the 2 g's were a nod to the ovum or "egg" theme that ran parallel to the boat theme. Popular American voice actor and radio personality Mel Blanc met Stewart Copeland as the Police were finishing the album. Copeland stopped by Blanc's table where the Looney Toons narrator was dining on eggs whilst entertaining his guests in the voice of Foghorn Leghorn. The incident inspired Stewart to do the chicken pecking style drums heard on "Reggatta de Blanc" (egg eaten by Blanc) the album's second song and title track. The album had already started to form around the boat race theme with the song "No Time This Time" - about the race, followed by the boat being blown off course and becoming stranded on a deserted island, in the songs "message in a Bottle" (about attempts at getting rescued), "Bring on the Night" (about the relentless blistering sun on the island) and finally, the self explanatory "Deathwish." I rest my case.
3:19 who is this guy doing the talking! - The reference to sting having never really been out of Newcastle prior to the meeting with Stewart in London is incorrect. Last Exit we’re doing gigs in London prior to The Police. Basic stuff. Surprised the research wasn’t better.
These rock guys commenting only seem to know one reggare artist. Reggae has always been in the air in UK music, going back to the 1960's and when Punk came about in the late '70s, reggae played a big part, principally as the music of rebellion and non-conformity. Everybody loved Bob Marley, but we were listening to so many Jamaican artists and especially dub producers. Gregory Isaacs, Culture, Augustus Pablo, Dennis Brown, Dillinger, and loads more. But it always seems to get characterised as if it was just Bob Marley.
As for punk Dead Kennedys I always liked and for punk roots Joy Division and The Police I always liked. Ska and punk blend very well and reggae is a slow version of ska (more or less half speed). Just add water 😅
Lotta b sides highlighted here. If you bought this on DVD you would probably get a bunch of recently purchased recordings from that era. It reminds me if when the history Channel would get new footage of Hitler. Let's make a doc!
All music is an interpretation of past influences. Now when bands simply lift songs without paying the original author that is a different story. Which styles of music tend to do that?
I'm going to go investigate that idea. I love all three of the first 3 Police albums, probably more than Ghosts and Synchronicity. I have favorite, special tracks from each of their albums. They're all great.
Agree, Zenyatta Mondatta was a great album. Andy Summers' chords made it so atmospheric and memorable. The soundtrack to my school days. Saw them live in Macau in 2008, they were absolutely brilliant.
Would have been better if they had just come out as themselves in the first place and never pretended to be punk.. Everything about their backgrounds was the antithesis of what punk represented. All of these guys were more polished musicians than even some of the non-punk bands that were starting up, none were teenagers, either. Andy Summers was as old as the Beatles. But they all had to dumb down their abilities to play minimalist music
Stewart LOVED the punk scene and wanted a piece of the action and that was his motivation - Sting got inspired once he got to London but they had chops so their sound evolved uniquely. _Strontium 90_ stuff they did first is really "punk" sounding, so are a lot of tracks on the first album like _Next to You_ etc.
Stewart Andy still legends beautiful but I'm erasing discography. They have to be traumatized and poor for material influence of this time the compromise the spiritual and the artistic integrity..
My favorite Police album! Thank you for this.
The right guys, playing the right music at the right time. Each came from an integral music history encompassing all forms of modern western music. From James Brown to Ravel. All three of them were filters/channels. It couldn't have been done in the absence of either of them. and it couldn't have happened at another time in history, similar to the Beatles phenomenon. What made this band work goes deeper than the music they were playing.
'Every little thing she does is magic' will always be my favourite Police track.
wrong album then
@@beetleything1864 Yeah, it's not on the album covered.
@@beetleything1864 it was on the album ghost in the machine their fourth album 👍
Great band Great album. Thanks!
Bring on the night is still an all time favourite, heavy subject done so atmospheric and melodic,a gem of a song!
so amazing eh - much respect
great to see Padovani in this documentary.......
First album I ever owned, still played all the time!!
Just for the record - Bob Marley did not invent reggae drumming… Luv the guy but if anything, can we at least give credit to the most hard working reggae member in the Wailers : Mr Carlton Barrett. Right there with Mr Copeland on my short list of astonishing talented drummers.
Thank you. This must be said. Mr Barrett and others invented this style. Copeland was influenced by it massively, and took it to another style.
He doesn’t say Matley invented reggae drums; he said Stewart may have gotten his drumming from Marley’s drums.
@@knownote.......yes, absolutely, which is very different! Also Barrett didn’t invent reggae drumming either. An example of someone who doesn’t take in what is being conveyed and is just focused on what they want to tell us - poor communication and a very odd comment 🤷♂️
@@adenihil all musicians r borrowers and thieves
STEWART COPELAND GIVES A LOT OF CREDIT TO DRUMMER ( SLY DUNBAR, TONY RUPTION WILLIAMS, COLIN GABBIDON ETC.... AND MANY MORE )
I got into the Police when they started, they were my favourite band, and I think they probably still are my favourite band. The Police are the most powerful three piece ever.
Thanks Sting, Andy and Stewart ❤
The Police, Regatta Blanc, pleasure to listen to, still is today. 🚨 👏
And here I was waiting for an actual documentary on the Regatta de Blanc album...
Yeah, and never trust a doc that doesn't have comment / opinoin from the members of the band itself
Yeah, this feels like a rip-off.
Exactly
Same here. Very disapointing
This one OTOH is a great interview : th-cam.com/video/efRQh2vspVc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7F7kl_ZpABRYA0Nt
Sting is an awesome bass player who I feel comfortable calling a virtuoso and an amazing vocalist. He is just a great musician and writer in all ways. Andy is an amazing guitarist who started out in Jazz and Stewart is a virtuoso on percussion who got his big break with the legendary British psych-folk-prog rock band Curved Air.
Waaauw
Thanx for this Post Bro🎉😮❤
Love this album since day1❤
No Stewart Copeland No Police.
Absolutely. So many people don't know that. Without Stewart Copeland, there would never be a band called The Police period.
I so agree, he's under rated by far!
He's not under-rated.
Correct
@@RobertTevault-b1n
had the first one could not wait for this one the bed to big is special
The best sophomore effort.
Stu literally flies on the drums. He was the driving force.
Er well, he *figuratively* flies, but hey, that is still pretty good..
This is good Thank you.. A bit repetitive at times, but really decent to hear the different perspectives.
Canary in the coal mine great tune 🎶
Rod Stewart, Colin Hay (Men at Work) & Sting all had that husky radio friendly voice
bed's too big....... my favorite song .......
I love how they load us up with Outlandos - Top Ten fer me sorry' bout' it'. - so interesting, so personal, so happy, so rocky, so fun, so bright, e....t.....c......Bed's Too Big Without You is the sexy track on this record - so solid. Ok Bring On The Night .....Deathwish......Contact....No Time This Time......e....t.....c......
I think this was the best 3 piece band theres ever been... there life is synchronicity
Rush, Triumph, to name a few.
THE JAM - where the best 3 piece ever !
@@cpodurnell3701 rush are fucking good... it's a tricky thing...saw the show of hands tour in the late 80s at earls Court in London.. a very special show
@MichProgNerd shit....awful at Glastonbury
@@beetleything1864 again another tricky one... shit hot band.. big fan of Foxton driving bass lines...
Apologies for being the pedant in the room, but the album title is correctly spelt... Reggatta de Blanc... with TWO g's!!
Can't agree that the albums after Regatta De Blanc were lesser. Zenyatta was a fantastic album as was Ghost in the Machine. They always talk about the "hits" in these docs, completely disregarding "Tea in the Sahara" " Canary in a coal mine" "Spirits in the Material World". Their entire body of work from start to finish were masterpieces coming from 3 master musicians. You could hear the progression in maturity of the band's music, as the years progressed. The only regret, for me, as a drummer and a massive fan of theirs was the music we didn't get. I would have loved to have witnessed a chiller, more refined Police. Ego's got the better of them which is always the case. Sting could have gone and done his solo projects. Something to be said for bowing out while you are hot but...
Saw the guys at the Lyceum and got the first LP with a free badge, poster and on bloo vinyl, which I wish I had kept. They were excellent at the time, still pretty much unknown.
I went to see the laser rock show at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC and they played Walking on the Moon. Nobody had ever heard the song before nor had anyone ever heard of The Police. I find that very odd because every other song that was played was a well known band with a well known song.
The sick part of the music business has always been the wall of haters and unbelievers in high places you have to get through to let the people listen to your music. You get past that, people love it. Now, there is this idea that you can overcome this because of the lower cost and ease of recording, but the big business is still out there, culling and rejecting before people get a chance to listen.
I grew up in Dorking, 6 miles from Leatherhead (where Surrey Sound Studios were) and we adored The Police but we had no idea our heroes were recording and spending time in the next town down the railway line. Aargh. Its the oddest thing to hear Stewart Copeland say Leatherhead 🤣.
But then, we didnt even know about Strawberry Studios IN Dorking, 10cc and so many others were in the town in the 70s whilst i was growing up and walking the streets past it! In those days it was easier for megastars to be private.
Strawberry Studios was in Manchester not Dorking.
@@geezertechhead from Wikipedia (and also, I lived there and stood outside it) "Strawberry Studios South and Strawberry Mastering
In 1976, Gouldman and Stewart opened a second studio, Strawberry Studios South, in a former cinema in Dorking, Surrey, following the departure of Godley and Creme. The studio had been planned before the band's split, with Stewart pointing out the Stockport studio had been in such great demand it was often difficult for 10cc to use it. He said: "Initially the studio will be just for 10cc, but we will be letting it out for block bookings of two months at a time for selected customers, other groups who want to record in comfort." The original Strawberry Studio was then referred to as Strawberry Studios North."
So my apologies, I should've put, Strawberry Studios south, to placate that Mancunian braggadocio. 🙄 🥱
The guy in the leather jacket that won't shut up probably owns the footage
The "guy in the leather jacket that won't shut up" is Henri Padovani, the original Police guitarist.
Awesome
One of the first albums i ever bought. The others were LENE LOVICH, MADNESS,ELVIS COSTELLO,THE CLASH,even STATUS QUO (i know they don't fit in,but i liked them. YES "Drama too)
@@Semprini537 hey, QUO RULE ! 😀
Great story
15:00 - Stewart Copeland on the snare drum. 😅
Right? Sounds like a gunshot or something.
29:33 Sting’s vocals are described as feminine? I strongly disagree. Just because he’s got an impressively high vocal range, it doesn’t equate to his voice sounding feminine.
Stewart Copeland was a awsome drummer! Actually, all the musicians in the Police were very talented, all of them can sing and play there insraments, this is rare today! When Andy, Sting and Stewart were in the studio in a tropical paradise, they had spent a long time in the studio and were getting frustrated one afternoon and both Stewart and Sting went out to take a break and Andy stayed back in the studio and laid down " Every Breath You Take " little did Andy know he was writing the song that would send the band into superstardome! In 1984 they played the biggest outdoor show at the US Festival in California, Van Halen headlined that concert that was definitely a westcoast Woodstock! Xo, 47:58 Dave 😀🎸🥁🎤🔊🎶🎵🤘
Was?
That's not the way Andy explained it in his book...
One of the greatest albums OAT….very under rated
Underrated 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't understand why everybody is referring to Roxanne as reggae,
it is obviously a tango.
Otherwise an excellent docu on a great band.
✌✌
the rest is history
Regatta is a boat race.
Album meant white man's reggae , nothing to do with boats
@@cnfuzzdisagree. White man’s boat race.
Title was Reggatta.
@@geographyinaction7814 the 2 g's were a nod to the ovum or "egg" theme that ran parallel to the boat theme. Popular American voice actor and radio personality Mel Blanc met Stewart Copeland as the Police were finishing the album. Copeland stopped by Blanc's table where the Looney Toons narrator was dining on eggs whilst entertaining his guests in the voice of Foghorn Leghorn. The incident inspired Stewart to do the chicken pecking style drums heard on "Reggatta de Blanc" (egg eaten by Blanc) the album's second song and title track. The album had already started to form around the boat race theme with the song "No Time This Time" - about the race, followed by the boat being blown off course and becoming stranded on a deserted island, in the songs "message in a Bottle" (about attempts at getting rescued), "Bring on the Night" (about the relentless blistering sun on the island) and finally, the self explanatory "Deathwish." I rest my case.
Kool a police documentary that doesnt include any members of the police 😢
The usual annoying talking heads who don't actually know what they're talking about but ride the coattails of the subject!
3:19 who is this guy doing the talking! - The reference to sting having never really been out of Newcastle prior to the meeting with Stewart in London is incorrect. Last Exit we’re doing gigs in London prior to The Police. Basic stuff. Surprised the research wasn’t better.
Why did they have several albums with such odd titles ?
I don't think you can interview Henry Padovani and call it a Police documentary. 😆
These rock guys commenting only seem to know one reggare artist. Reggae has always been in the air in UK music, going back to the 1960's and when Punk came about in the late '70s, reggae played a big part, principally as the music of rebellion and non-conformity. Everybody loved Bob Marley, but we were listening to so many Jamaican artists and especially dub producers. Gregory Isaacs, Culture, Augustus Pablo, Dennis Brown, Dillinger, and loads more. But it always seems to get characterised as if it was just Bob Marley.
Lee Scratch Perry doesn't get anywhere near enough credit.
As for punk Dead Kennedys I always liked and for punk roots Joy Division and The Police I always liked.
Ska and punk blend very well and reggae is a slow version of ska (more or less half speed).
Just add water 😅
That WAS NOT a documentary about Regatta De Blanc.
it was padovani talking about something he wasn't part of Lol
Precisely
No shit..
A bit of detunage between the bass and guitar in those live material. Splendid, nonetheless.
Lotta b sides highlighted here. If you bought this on DVD you would probably get a bunch of recently purchased recordings from that era. It reminds me if when the history Channel would get new footage of Hitler. Let's make a doc!
This is a delivery system for some live content the producers own. There are worse reasons to make a documentary
Not a documentary; a mashup of found sources. There's nothing wrong with that, but just don't call it a documentary.That is clickbait.
reggatta with 2 gg please
All music is an interpretation of past influences. Now when bands simply lift songs without paying the original author that is a different story. Which styles of music tend to do that?
And there was my little 14 year old self thinking it was an album about a white boat race 🤪
The Cops were as punk as Elvis Cstello.
The were as poprock band probably the most pop out side of The Cars.
Thinking you're clever changing their name, huh? Lol
Zenyatta Mondatta is a MUCH better album than Regatta De Blanc. Regatta De Blanc sounds like it was recorded an basement studio.
I'm going to go investigate that idea. I love all three of the first 3 Police albums, probably more than Ghosts and Synchronicity.
I have favorite, special tracks from each of their albums. They're all great.
Agree, Zenyatta Mondatta was a great album. Andy Summers' chords made it so atmospheric and memorable. The soundtrack to my school days. Saw them live in Macau in 2008, they were absolutely brilliant.
Would have been better if they had just come out as themselves in the first place and never pretended to be punk.. Everything about their backgrounds was the antithesis of what punk represented. All of these guys were more polished musicians than even some of the non-punk bands that were starting up, none were teenagers, either. Andy Summers was as old as the Beatles. But they all had to dumb down their abilities to play minimalist music
Before Andy they were punk. Have you even heard the first single? Obviously not.
Stewart LOVED the punk scene and wanted a piece of the action and that was his motivation - Sting got inspired once he got to London but they had chops so their sound evolved uniquely. _Strontium 90_ stuff they did first is really "punk" sounding, so are a lot of tracks on the first album like _Next to You_ etc.
Just arrested my imagination lol
very sophomoric if you ask me
Stewart Andy still legends beautiful but I'm erasing discography. They have to be traumatized and poor for material influence of this time the compromise the spiritual and the artistic integrity..
😅😅
Wow the old guitarist bitter - Andy Summers had more chops and hes talking like hes some average guitarist F french LOL
Music has no colour!!!!! Who's the stuck up square presenting?
What's this rubbish. Seriously.
Who cares what Bob Marley thinks? He has half their ability.
People are nuts zenyatta was their BEST !!!!