The Police recorded five studio albums, and Stewart Copeland says they weren’t all heavenly to record.
It is no secret that Copeland, Sting, and Andy Summers did not get along towards the end of The Police’s run. And now the drummer is detailing how bad things were to record their last two albums Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity.
Even though they were recording their fourth album in paradise, he says, “It was Hell on Earth.”
It was just the three of them in the room. They might be legends outside of those four walls, but inside, they were just pieces of shit to the other two.
This continued through the recording of their final album. So, does Stweart regret it? “We look back on the result of this strife, the struggle, and we appreciate that struggle is what gave the band its energy, its snap, its zing, its fire. It was that dichotomy,” he said. “By now, we had grown apart musically.”
They might’ve been three different musicians who hated each other in one band, but they loved the music they created.
And when you think about it, it explains the really dark songs, like One World (Not Three), Synchronicity II, King of Pain, and Wrapped Around Your Finger.
Things might have been ugly between them, but they sure did create beautiful music.
And this is why I will always prefer Summers songs over Sting’s. Imagine all the great songs The Police could’ve recorded if Sting wasn’t such a goddamn fucking asshole bastard.
