Taking into consideration that he was 35-years-old when The Police scored their first UK High 10 single (Cannot Stand Shedding You), Andy Summers’ declaration in a brand new interview that the trio “weren’t precisely a boy band” is unlikely to trigger many jaws to drop.
Nonetheless, simply because the trio have been excellent songwriters, an exhilarating dwell band and “superior, musically, to nearly each different band” within the guitarist’s humble opinion, does not imply that The Police weren’t additionally sexually-stimulating hotties, principally.
“We have been cute guys,” the 81-year-old guitarist tells Vulture. “We have been good trying guys. All people went mad as a result of we have been utterly sellable as a pop unit. If the three of us have been collectively and we turned up anyplace, an enormous crowd would seem. It was a type of moments, and we have been on the forefront of it. We weren’t precisely a boy band, however we had large adulation and appeared to the feminine part of the viewers, to place it politely. They needed to be with us, speak to us, and provides us their cash.”
Different revelations in Summer time’s highly-entertaining interview with the web site embrace his perception that The Police’s supervisor (and drummer Stewart Copeland’s brother) Miles Copeland “hated us, actually” (“I feel he hated me particularly”), that “guys in document firms don’t know shit about music” – “Sorry. That’s the grim fact” – and that he as soon as went in the hunt for Beatles producer George Martin on the island of Montserrat “like Tarzan hacking his means by the jungle” believing that solely the fabled music business legend might instil a way of concord to the fractious studio classes for The Police’s closing album.
“I believed, In fact he’s going to assist us. What a shot for Sir George!”
Learn the interview in full right here.
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