Andy Summers. I’ll Be Watching You. Inside The Police 1980-83
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Andy Summers. I’ll Be Watching You. Inside The Police 1980-83
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The Police on tour photographed by guitarist Andy Summers
This book, somewhere between photojournalism and an illustrated diary, follows The Police around the globe between 1980 and 1983. From the American West to Australia to Japan, Summers recorded not only the band members rehearsing and partying—the proverbial sex, drugs, and rock and roll—he also photographed fans, landscapes, still lifes, and passersby in a reportage style reminiscent of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank. Containing over 600 photos—most of them previously unpublished—and filled with diary-style entries, I’ll Be Watching You is a sumptuous volume beating with musical energy, nostalgia, and atmospheric beauty.
Highlights include:
- Rehearsals and recording sessions with bandmates Sting and Stewart Copeland
- Exclusive backstage and onstage scenes from concerts including Plaza de Toros (Barcelona, 1980), Budokan (Tokyo, 1981), Wembley Stadium (London, 1981), and Shea Stadium (New York, 1983)
- Inside the tour buses, limousines, helicopters, private planes, parties, and hotel rooms
- Behind the scenes on music video shoots, at press conferences, and in-store appearances
- Life on the road with other bands including The Go-Go’s, XTC, and The B-52’s
- Rain-soaked train windows, trashed hotel rooms, island retreats, overcrowded stadiums, and thousands of screaming, singing, sobbing fans
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The artist
While Andy Summers is best known as the guitarist of The Police (1977-86), he has since forged a successful and acclaimed solo career with contemporary instrumental music that, like his work with Sting and Stewart Copeland, draws on his love of jazz, world, classical music, and his fascination with creating sonic textures. His post-Police years have produced more than two dozen solo albums, soundtracks, and collaborations, plus hundreds of international concerts, and induction to both the Guitar Player Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Summers's parallel passion for photography has led him to document subjects ranging from rural communities throughout Southeast Asia to timeless noir-style street scenes in cities around the world. His photographs have been shown in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Paris and London, and his books include Throb (1983), the Ralph Gibson collaboration Light Strings: Impressions of the Guitar (2004), and the memoir One Train Later (2006).
Andy Summers. I’ll Be Watching You. Inside The Police 1980-83
Edition of 1,500Hardcover in clamshell box, 27 x 34 cm, 4.87 kg, 378 pagesISBN 978-3-8228-2764-2
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