The Police Will Kick Off the Grammys (By The New York Times)

[Jose]

The Police Will Kick Off the Grammys

By JEFF LEEDS
Published: January 30, 2007


The Police, who leapt from the British punk scene to become one of the world’s biggest rock acts before breaking up in 1984, will reunite for a performance to kick off the 49th Grammy Awards on Feb. 11.

The scheduled performance by the band members, who last played together when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003, is likely to heighten speculation that the Police will soon mount a full tour. The group would join a growing list of reunited acts expected to perform this year, including Van Halen and Rage Against the Machine.

The Police — known for “Roxanne,” “Message in a Bottle” and other hits — have won five Grammy trophies, but have never performed on the annual telecast. The prime-time Sunday performance on CBS, televised live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, would come 30 years after the release of the band’s first single, “Fall Out.”

This month Sting alluded to a Police reunion when he told the Television Critics Association that all the former members were talking. “We started 30 years ago, so it would be nice to do something to celebrate,” Sting was quoted as saying. “We don’t quite know what, but we’re talking about it.”

Oddly enough, the band’s reunion — announced by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which awards the Grammys — comes not long after perhaps the most public analysis of its breakup. 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.

After the band splintered amid internal tension in 1984, the Police’s singer, Sting, pursued a successful solo career, meandering from the band’s reggae-influenced rock and experimenting with other forms of world music. Sting has also become a reliable concert box-office draw in his own right. His 2004 tour with Annie Lennox, for example, rang up box office sales of more than $50 million and ranked as one of the 10 best-selling tours of the year, according to the trade magazine Pollstar.

Last year Sting’s first classical album, “Songs From the Labyrinth,” featuring music written by the 16th-century composer John Dowland, topped the classical album sales chart for 2006. His reunited band now joins a lineup of performers for this year’s Grammy telecast that includes Mary J. Blige, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Dixie Chicks and Gnarls Barkley, among others.

Source from: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/arts/ ... upvSYVgmMw

[Grant]

[quote="Jose"]The Police Will Kick Off the Grammys

[/quote]

AIYAHHH!!!! That's Vietnamese for 'Oh My Vogon Gods.'

[Mrs. Gradenko]

And Vogon is?

Everyone tape it, so we don't have to sit though the boring bits (everything else). This is going to get them SO many more viewers.

[Grant]

[quote="Mrs. Gradenko"]And Vogon is?
.[/quote]

It's a space creature that wipes out Earth, not too long from now according to Douglas Adams. (It's a bit from the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.)

[Wombat]

I feel some Vogon poetry coming on.

Froody!

[Grant]

[quote="Wombat"]I feel some Vogon poetry coming on.

Froody![/quote]
Wombat you know your avatar makes me want to puke, but in a good way.
bombat, you flow your matador bakes lee fount boo zook, but in a good way.

[Divemistress of the Dark]

I love you people. Although I don't know how to say it in the tongue of Cthulhu.

[bella]

Okay, this is ridiculous!! I have not been this excited since I was 14 years old. I just sat here and pictured Andy, Stew and Sting on the Grammy stage and my heart did cartwheels, and jumping jacks, and kick boxing!! Joy JOY JOYYYYYY!

[Marshmallow Jones 1]

Oh sweet, they're going to open the show - once that's over i can watch something more interesting than the Grammy awards. like paint drying


seriously, this is excellent news...

[PhilippeC]

Nice they open it!
Last year, I watched incidentally this program a few minutes, broadcasted on a french channel, W9. It was really funny: the french guys who were presenting/translating the show couldn't even understand what was said (maybe there was nothing to understand...)! So they weren't able to translate anything. A big shame!
So I pray if it's the same "team", they won't understand a single word and, most of all, they'll shut their mouth while The Police will be playing.

[blueseattle]

Well, they're opening them... which makes it all the more awesome.

I don't have to sit through the Grammy's! Yes!

I hope they play "Message in a Bottle", but I really wish they'd play "Don't Stand So Close", mainly because the last time we saw them they played the same three.

Who cares? They're back!

[Spec A!]

What an awesome way to open if they go with with Don't Stand- the theater will be dark, you can't see anything, then all the sudden you hear that low bass note, Andy's little guitar riff, and then Sting suddenly belts "Young Teacher!"

The crowd goes nuts, people around the world faint, and that's just the beginning!!!

[blueseattle]

[quote="Spec A!"]What an awesome way to open if they go with with Don't Stand- the theater will be dark, you can't see anything, then all the sudden you hear that low bass note, Andy's little guitar riff, and the Sting suddenly belts "Young Teacher!"

The crowd goes nuts, people around the world faint, and that's just the beginning!!![/quote]

Seriously!

[BongoBoy]

Doesn't really seem real does it?

You want something for 20 years and then...there it is.

Luckily we always want more and more....like a tour and a new album.

What the heck, we can dream!

I hope they do a rockin tune....no disrespect at all, but no "Every breath you take" please!...P Diddy might jump up on stage!!!

Cheers and give Thanks.

[copelandos_damour]

[quote="blueseattle"][quote="Spec A!"]What an awesome way to open if they go with with Don't Stand- the theater will be dark, you can't see anything, then all the sudden you hear that low bass note, Andy's little guitar riff, and the Sting suddenly belts "Young Teacher!"

The crowd goes nuts, people around the world faint, and that's just the beginning!!![/quote]

Yeah I will defenitely faint!