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Why Sting just paid $800,000 to his former Police bandmates, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland

Summers and Copeland launched a legal case last year, claiming “historic underpayment” for their contributions to the Police's hits

Guitar World

First Thing: Federal agent shoots man in Minneapolis as tensions in city run high

Mayor urges calm as city continues to reel in aftermath of Renee Good’s killing. Plus, how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

The Guardian - UK

Sting ‘pays former Police bandmates £600,000 in royalties’ as lawsuit continues

The Police frontman’s ex-bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland are arguing they are also owed a portion of his income from streaming and download sales of the band’s music

The Independent UK

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‘A nasty little song, really rather evil’: how Every Breath You Take tore Sting and the Police apart

Sting and his former bandmates go to the high court over a royalties dispute this week – the latest chapter in the song’s remarkably fractious story

The Guardian - UK

Sting pays Police bandmates nearly £650,000 as royalties row reaches High Court

Guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland first took legal action against the musician last year

Evening Standard

Can’t stand losing out: battle over the Police’s royalties reaches high court

Dispute between Sting and former bandmates relates to whether streaming revenue, estimated at £1.5m, features in ‘arranger’s fees’

The Guardian - UK

Police royalties case reaches London’s High Court – Sting has now paid $800,000 to Summers and Copeland

But that doesn’t include interest, according to drummer’s and guitarist’s lawyers

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"I interrupted the passage of this chalice to the great one!" The night that The Police's Stewart Copeland "mortally embarrassed" himself in front of a Beatles legend

The moral of the story is that you're never too cool to make a fool of yourself

Louder

‘I once Bogarted a joint from a Beatle’: Stewart Copeland of the Police

The drummer and composer on cringeworthy celebrity encounters, why David Bowie is overrated, and being screamed at by Sting in front of 80,000 Italians

The Guardian - AU

“It was all done on GarageBand – it’s live drums, but over this goofy funk drum loop I’d done on my laptop out on tour”: After working on one of the most expensively recorded albums of all time, drummer Josh Freese made his new solo record on the cheap

“It’s in a bit of a DIY fashion"

MusicRadar

"The three of us were put on this planet to make different kinds of music": Stewart Copeland on why it's unlikely The Police will ever reform

Former Police man Stewart Copeland is about to embark on a trip around the UK telling stories about the band and more

Louder

Sting's legal representatives claim Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland may have been “substantially overpaid” following lost royalties lawsuit

Summers and Copeland claim that Sting owes them “in excess of $2 million” for income made from the “digital exploitation” of the Police’s back catalog

Guitar World

Sting’s High Court royalty dispute to return in January

The former bassist of The Police is accused of withholding royalties from his bandmates.

Evening Standard

Sting faces lawsuit from Police members over claims of unpaid song royalties

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The Independent UK

Sting faces £1.5m lawsuit from former The Police bandmates over royalties

Guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland claim they never got songwriting credit

Louder

Sting's former bandmates in The Police, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, are suing him claiming that they're owed unpaid royalties for the trio's 1983 mega-hit Every Breath You Take

The Police are heading to court

The Guardian - UK

Sting sued by former Police bandmates over alleged lost royalties

Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland claim they did not receive songwriting credits for hit Every Breath You Take

Guitar World

“They say they are owed millions in lost royalties”: Sting sued by Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland over lost royalties from Police mega-hit

The Police bassist and frontman is listed as the sole composer and author of the 1983 career-defining single Every Breath You Take

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MusicRadar

"Instead of just strumming some really stupid chords, I made something out of it": Sting sued by ex-Police colleagues for a share of Every Breath You Take royalties

Summers and Copeland believe their contributions deserve co-credits

MusicRadar

"Grohl's randomised fills and relentless single strokes at the end of the song makes this one of his greatest drum performances on record": Listen to 11 isolated drum tracks from rock's drumming legends

Led Zeppelin, Rush, The Beatles, Slipknot, The Police, and more

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Sting sued by Police bandmates

Sting is being sued for millions by his The Police bandmates, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland.

MusicRadar

“His influence is referenced by many contemporary drummers and he has no doubt spawned his fair share of copyists”: 6 of the most inspirational drummers of all time

Welcome to MusicRadar’s Drums Week! To kick things off, we’re spotlighting some of the most consequential sticksmen of all time

MusicRadar

“I got up and started walking round the room, singing 'Walking round the room, ya, ya, walking round the room’”: The surprising origins and intricate musical theory behind an iconic Police masterpiece

We take one giant leap toward a song with one of the most recognisable bass lines of all time

Louder

“No debate, no coaxing, no schmoozing, nothing – I put music on the page and they play it. Don’t tell Sting!” Stewart Copeland on making music after The Police, being outdone by Pink Floyd, Curved Air, Neil Peart and life in his 70s

The accidental archivist revels in found sounds, movie soundtracks, spoken-word performances – and after dealing with his tensions of the 80s, explains why his brother isn’t talking to him

MusicRadar

“He would do a fill where you’d think, 'Oh no, there's no way he's going to land on 1' – Jimi would just laugh because they were so silly”: The magic of Mitch Mitchell, the drummer who landed a spot in Hendrix’s band on a coin toss

On what would've been his 79th birthday, we explore the legacy of one of history's most underrated drummers

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