i concur with Ms. Michelle on this. we are indeed
lucky to still have sting around in any shape of form,
still producing music - my only hope/contention being
that the material is up to snuff.
for me, i asked the question out of what's been a
life spent defending the police as a band to people,
demanding them to be recognized as, for my money, the
single greatest band ever - this my virtually everyone
i have ever gotten into a discussion about music with.
rightly or wrongly, i feel that the legacy of the
police is not held in as high a regard to the world
outside this wegpage - that they are blown off and/or
taken for granted, that their uniqueness has not been
given its just due. i mean, the rock and roll hall of
fame induction was nice, but i think there should be
more.
so, admitted, i get a bit annoyed when i - again,
correctly or incorrectly - see interviews with sting
steered away from even the smallest amount of
discussion on the police, when i see sting perform in
concert and hear only 4 police songs in a 25-song set
or things of that nature.
i hope to be rewarded for this righteousness on
day...

rich

p.s.: i'm listening to SACRED LOVE as i type this out,
here comes "dead man's rope". my reward comes early...

--- Stingfan222@aol.com wrote:
> Does it really matter who sold more? We were lucky
> enough to have him in the
> world's best band, and then lucky enough to have him
> go solo and succeed. Can
> you imagine if all three of them just disappeared
> into the wordwork after
> dissolving the Police? If I can't have the Police,
> I'm happy having them solo.
> Call me the eternal optimist.
> Michelle in TX
>
> In a message dated 10/29/03 7:31:47 PM,
> sam@illuminated.co.uk writes:
>
> << Ross Viner wrote:
> > [Tara and Bruce wrote:]
> >> Yes, Oprah mentioned that Sting sold 40 million
> albums with The Police and
> >> another 45 million as a solo artist. Also, Sting
> played EBYT and Roxanne.
> >
> > I do think it noteworthy, that the Police sold
> most of their over the
> > span of 6 years. Sting as a solo artist, has had
> 18 years.
>
> The raw numbers in themselves mean relatively
> little. I'd like to see a
> proper graph of sales versus time progression, to
> see at which point Sting
> started selling more than the Police. I'd also be
> interested to see how the
> "Sting & the Police" compilations were counted.
>
> There's a whole bunch more stuff than can be said
> about Sting vs. The Police
> (I mean this in a comparative sense, and I don't
> mean to imply any sense of
> antagonism), but if people are going to compare
> Stings solo with The Police,
> then I'd like them to restrict to recent times. It
> would be genuinely
> interesting to work out which songs in a live set
> got the greatest audience
> reaction, Sting or Police songs; hell, I'd be
> interested in seeing the
> figures for back-catalogue sales, assuming we had a
> year where the figures
> weren't sullied by re-issues and other promotional
> gambits.
>
> Sam
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>
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