We’ve all heard the old adage of ‘where there’s a hit, there’s a writ’ and hits don’t come any bigger than Every Breath You Take – two billion Spotify plays, the biggest song of 1983, fifth biggest of the 1980s - which rakes in something north of £550,000 for Sting every year. Now his ex-colleagues in The Police have decided – 42 years after it was first released – that they want a share of that.
Yes, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland are suing their old bandmate, claiming they’re owed a co-credit and thus millions in royalties. A High Court writ has been issued in London, and Sting (aka Gordon Sumner) and his publishing company Magnetic are named as defendants.
