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The Police Are Reuniting for the Grammys on Feb. 11
Three-piece British rock band The Police are reuniting to open the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 11.
Police (Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers) will reunite and perform together for the first time on the Grammys when they open the 49th Annual Grammy Awards telecast on Feb. 11, it was announced today by The Recording Academy. The 49th Annual Grammy Awards are produced by John Cossette Productions in association with Ken Ehrlich Productions for The Recording Academy.
"The Police join a stellar list of past Grammy Awards opening acts, which includes reunions and once-in-a-lifetime performances," said a statement from the academy.
The band's label, A&M Records, which is owned by Universal Music, said in a statement:
"It is our intention to mark the [30th] anniversary by doing something special with the band's catalog of songs. Needless to say, everyone is hopeful the band will support our plans and while early discussions have taken place, nothing has been decided," said the statement.
Newsweek reports the band played an impromptu set at lead singer Sting's wedding to Trudie Styler in 1992, and last performed together in celebration of their 2003 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band, led by frontman Sting, initially split up in 1984.
Stewart Copeland, the Police’s co-founder and drummer, made a splash at last year’s Sundance Film Festival with a film, "Everyone Stares," a first-person account of the band’s rise to prominence and subsequent disintegration.
The 49th Annual Grammy Awards will be televised live on CBS at 8 p.m. (EST/PT).
The Police were founded by American-born drummer Stewart Copeland in early 1977. Coming to prominence in the wake of the punk rock phenomenon, they rose to become one of the most popular groups in the world in the early 1980s. Sting proved to be a capable songwriter. He had previously spent time as a secondary school English teacher, and his lyrics are noted for their literary awareness and verbal agility.
Although there was never an official break-up, each band member pursued his own solo career after the Synchronicity tour ended in March 1984. Before that, as Sting's fame rose, he began to exert more control over the group, aided by the fact that he wrote the bulk of their material. His relationship with band founder Stewart Copeland began to deteriorate, with the two reputedly coming to blows on some occasions.
The band recorded only five albums before an acrimonious split in 1984. But they still established themselves as one of the seminal bands of the era and would sell out stadiums around the world with their appeal to baby-boomers and to a younger generation who are also familiar with songs like Every Breath You Take and Roxanne.
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