Excerpted from the October 1982 issue How did the Police come about? I was on tour with Curved Air. We had a night off and a local journalist took me around to see his favorite local group, which was a jazz group called Last Exit in which Sting was the bass player and singer. The group was terrible, but Sting was great. Later on, disenchanted with the mu­sic industry and dreaming of setting up a small group that could pay its own bills and be its own bosses, I called up Sting and asked him to join me in a group. We had a different guitarist at first. About a year af­ter we formed, Andy discovered us, de­manded to join the group and he sort of elbowed the other guitarist out of the group. Were you still with Curved Air at the time the Police formed? There was a period […]

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