24 de agosto de 2007

Police | A digressão do reencontro

Os míticos The Police estão de regresso à estrada. A passagem por Portugal ocorre a 25 de Setembro, no Estádio Nacional, em Lisboa, 27 anos depois da actuação da banda de Sting, Andy Summers e Stewart Copeland no Estádio do Restelo. Os bilhetes ainda estão à venda e custam entre 55 e 95 euros.
'Whatever we do, this will always be the seminal band'
In 1978 John Pidgeon covered the Police's first US tour. Nearly 30 years later he joined the reunited band as they took to the road once more
Friday August 24, 2007
The Guardian '

On page 253 of his compellingly readable memoir, One Train Later, Andy Summers logs the April 1978 release of the Police's Roxanne, adding tersely, "It gets reviewed by John Pidgeon in Melody Maker." That short statement telescopes into a more convoluted reality. True, for one issue only, I was MM's singles reviewer, though not until mid-October, by which time Roxanne was a six-month-old stiff. But that record was still a hit on my turntable, so I made it the yardstick by which I would judge the new releases.

Para ler em The Guardian - Music

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