The 2007 Grammy Awards began with 10 simple words: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are the Police, and we're back." With that, the Police launched into a four-minute rendition of "Roxanne" as millions of people around the world looked on. Two days later they held a press conference in Los Angeles to announce their reunion tour. Over a period of 15 months, they played 152 shows and grossed over $300 million, and that's not even counting the money they pulled in from merchandising and sponsorship deals...

Sting's India: from Roxanne to Rajasthan - The Daily Telegraph's James Collard meets Sting, a rock star, environmental activist and long-time Indophile, in Jodhpur of north-west India, to support the Maharaja's head injuries charity...

Before any journalist decides to write a story about Stewart Copeland, just know that the chances of you surprising him with a double entendre about the Police are very slim. In the myriad articles written about the drummer over the last three decades, he's heard 'em all, no matter what new product he's selling...

The ex-Police drummer's latest work, 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' based on Poe's short story, has its U.S. debut at Long Beach Opera this week. Though it's been 27 years since the Police disbanded, Stewart Copeland, its American drummer, remains best known for his nine years with the seminal British rock band. But that doesn't mean he hasn't been busy beyond the Police's 2007 reunion tour. From the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s, Copeland was a prolific composer of movie and TV scores. More recently, he's been writing operas and ballets...

''On a Friday, I’ll have been at work since 8am, all brisk and businesslike. Composing is two very different jobs. The first is easy, creating something that sounds good coming out of my speakers. The hard part is turning that into precise instructions 90 players can follow. You have to specify exactly what you want, so the second violinists on one side of the room are playing what you want, as are the oboes, 40 or 50 yards away. There’s even a term for when you want them to slow down gradually – slargando..."

Henry Padovani starts a short solo tour of Italian clubs next week, so now is a great chance to catch him perform some intimate gigs. The shows start on March 27 in Piozzo, March and then move to Bresso (Mar 28), Castiglione (Mar 29), Torino (Mar 30), Bergamo (Mar 31), Cupra Marittima (Apr 1) and Roma (Apr 2). For full venue information read on...

The critically-acclaimed Back to Bass tour will continue this summer in North America and Europe, with Sting performing many of his greatest hits joined by a 5-piece band including Dominic Miller (guitar), David Sancious (keyboards), Vinnie Colaiuta (drums), Peter Tickell (electric fiddle), and Jo Lawry (vocals)! Beginning May 30 in Kelowna, British Columbia, the tour will extend across North America in June, followed by a return to Europe through July. Additional dates will be announced in the coming weeks...

When Police guitarist Andy Summers first thought about turning his memoir into a movie, he faced a dilemma familiar to anyone adapting a screenplay: deciding what to leave out and what to include. "You can't get it all in; it's impossible," Summers tells Rolling Stone. "There was an attempt to do that early on, and it was just getting heavy-handed..."

BBC Radio4 - Swansong A new series in which each week Stuart Maconie examines the final album by a major artist. This week, Synchronicity by The Police. Released in 1983, it was the band's fifth album and it hit the number one spot on both sides of the Atlantic. In America, it knocked the commercial juggernaut of Michael Jackson's Thriller from the top of the charts, selling over 8 million copies in the process. It also produced five international hit singles, including their most famous track Every Breath You Take. As Sting & co toured the world to promote their most successful release, each night playing 60,000 seater venues, at that point in their career they could genuinely lay claim to being the biggest band on planet Earth. Although the split was never officially announced, Synchronicity was to be the last studio album they would ever record. Despite all of the success, the truth was the three members couldn't stand to be in the same room as each other. With archive interviews from Sting and Andy Summers and brand new contributions from Stewart Copeland, manager Miles Copeland, producer Hugh Padgham and journalist John Pidgeon, Stuart Maconie examines what went wrong...

Andy Summers to Host Q&A Immediately Following the Premiere. Based on "One Train Later," the critically acclaimed memoir by world-renowned guitarist Andy Summers, "Can’t Stand Losing You" follows Andy's life from his early days in the London music scene to his chance encounter with drummer Stewart Copeland and bassist Sting, which led to the ascendancy of the band The Police. After parting ways in the early 1980s, the band reunites for a massive world tour in 2007. Utilizing rare archival footage chronicling Andy's career and exclusive behind the scenes and concert footage from The Police's reunion tour, "Can't Stand Losing You" weaves together the past and present to explore a life devoted to music...