Half Price Books Find: Sutcliffe's The Police, Historia Band

[63falcon]

Oh well, I ran out of room, Historia Bandito's! from 1981!!!! $4.49!! UK authors, but printed in Italy.
I enjoyed the photos, some I had seen in Goldsmiths' books, Andy's book, and those other early 80's photo books, but a lot of them were new to my eyes. What has been great tho' is the text. It's like reading an amalgamation of One Train Later, Broken Music, Ian's book AND (parts of) Without Cloak or Dagger!! Lot's of the parts attributed to Stewart's interviews were also a little different from what I'd read elsewhere. This book may have been discussed here some time back, but that was a post I guess I missed.
So, if any of you Nutters come across this book, take a moment to look inside, a nice read. Can't wait to have more time to sit a and finish this evening!

[secretjourneyranch]

I always felt the photos in this book were high quality.
Its an erratic read from memory, but better than most Police books from that time.

How's the spine on your find?
I have 2 of these and the glue on both gave out in the late 80's.
I didn't even flip through them that much!

Congrats on your find.

[63falcon]

It really is in great shape. I don't even see any crumbs between pages ! Spine glue is fine, no loose pages. I have found all of these 80's photo books either at a Cinci area Half Price store or at one of the local flea markets. I was at University when the Police split for good after Melbourne, and so wrapped up in studio and class that there was no time -or extra $$-then to pick up these sorts of books. I mean, one day exams were over, and so was The Police! Really fun now, after having gotten and read the books the Guys wrote in the past few years, to read what they were telling folks at the time versus 20+ years later. Had to listen to Regatta all over again.......