Andy Summers, Stuart Copeland, and Gordon Sumner - better known as "Sting" - last toured together over 20 years ago, and tickets for their 30th Anniversary tour this summer have been moving at a brisk pace elsewhere around North America. Boston, Toronto and New York City have all seen multiple sell-outs of local arenas. In New York alone, two Police shows at Madison Square Garden sold out mere seconds after they went on sale, and a third show at nearby Giants Stadium was soon gone, as well.
The Police were inducted into the Rock and a Roll Hall of Fame in 2003, and fans got a preview of this year's tour when they made an appearance on last month's Grammy Awards. Quicken Loans Arena will host their July 16th Cleveland date - so far, the only scheduled Ohio appearance. A portion of the tour proceeds will be donated to an international organization aimed at reducing world poverty. The opening act will be Fiction Plane, a pop-rock group that features Sting's son Joe.
The familiar phrase "personal differences" was cited as the cause for the group's original break-up, but as has been the case for many of the Police's 1980s compadres, the siren call of a lucrative reunion tour has set aside the internal frictions for awhile. David C. Barnett, 90.3.