It's no secret that there were tensions within The Police. Last year, speaking to Classic Rock, guitarist Andy Summers stated that, as early as 1979, when touring the group's second album, Regatta de Blanc, he realised that he was in a band with "two total arseholes", and it wasn't too long afterwards that Stewart Copeland was playing gigs with the words 'FUCK OFF YOU CUNT' written on his drum heads, in a none-too-subtle message to the member of the trio who wasn't Andy Summers.*
In a new [paywalled] interview with The Telegraph, Copeland reveals that under-going group therapy helped the trio resolve their bitter differences ahead of their hugely successful 2007/2008 reunion tour.
"I’d heard that the Rolling Stones had had therapy," Copeland says, "so I wanted some of that band therapy. So we got some and they tweaked out of each of us our point of view, about which we were both gobsmacked. We could not believe what we were hearing from the other party. And it changed everything."
