The Police: Every Little Thing: The Adventures of Sting, Stewart and Andy

by Caroline Stafford

An American drummer, a bass player from Newcastle and a guitarist a decade older than the other two, with little in common other than their musical brilliance and towering ambition, formed one of the most successful bands in history.Covering the years 1977–1986 and the brief reincarnation in 2007–2008, acclaimed biographers Caroline and David Stafford chronicle the rise and fall of the Police. Much like Reservoir Dogs but without the light relief, it's a tale of jealousy, anger and attrition both on the road and in the studio.And yet, despite – or perhaps because of – the battles, these three musicians, Sting, Andy and Stewart, each supremely talented in his own right, together achieved a symbiosis that produced music of soaring magnificence.

320 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 2, 2021

About the author

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Caroline Stafford started her career in the fashion business, heading up her own company for a while and working as a fabric and accessories buyer for Nichol Farhi. She also had occasional forays into journalism with the Daily Mirror, the London Evening Standard and New Musical Express. She and David have, since 1995, collaborated on comedies and dramas, mostly for radio, including Man of Soup, The Brothers, Hazelbeach, The True and Inspirational Life Of St. Nicholas, The Day The Planes Came, The Year They Invented Sex, Feminine Forever and a series of legal dramas based on the true-life cases of Norman Birkett. Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be their biography of the composer Lionel Bart, published by Omnibus Press in 2011, was chosen as BBC Radio 4’s Book of The Week was shortlisted for the Sheridan Morley award and became the basis of a TV documentary, Reviewing The Situation - The Life Of Lionel Bart, made with John Wyver and Mick Conefrey at Illuminations Productions and transmitted by BBC4 on 4th Dec 2013. Their newest book Cupid Stunts - The Life And Radio Times Of Kenny Everett was published in May 2013.

Reviews

[Chic]

I found this book immensely irritating because the font was tiny and the actual sole purpose of reading the book was to read about the Police. However every single reference to them had about a page of background about everything but the Police so I gave up quarter of the way through because it was too hard to read the miniscule font in order to find the actual Police content. The content itself was really interesting but so hard to find every single chapter.

Also the people who would read about The Police would like myself be a fan, if not huge fan, which didnt seem to be the focus of this book to be for these fans. It was not the book I expected it to be unfortunately.

[Esteban Stipnieks · Rating 4 out of 5]

While not perfect I wanted more detail on certain songs it provides insight into volatile mixture that was part of the legend and explains the partnership....between the 3 and interesting history thereof.