TUESDAY MAY 1ST

The Police are back !

The police are back and everyone is happy.
Police are back and as always most people see in a band just the success that has surrounded it. People think that, as soon as Sting started to write songs it was bingo time.
The police are back and a lot of people ask me what, I, think about it.

Of course, I have something to say about it, and if journalists want to speak to me, it is either because they don’t have access to Sting, Stewart or Andy and that I am a bargain article, easy to obtain, or because they would like me to give them a scoop of the bitter, sour, or disappointed guy.
Sorry! All my life, I have only had love, solidarity and joy for the Police success. I know they might not understand, they might be disappointed to miss a good tabloid article and of course they are sent back to the reading of that band’s history. What they should take out of it is a great story of solidarity and tenacity, an example!

It is not because today record companies and medias put forward and put their money on young artists that have just a look or had had the good idea to fart live on TV, that the history of pop and rock has always counted essentially on A&R to bring up new talents or on journalists to inform us on the arrival or on the existence of stars-to-be.
At the contrary, the history of rock has nearly always counted onto itself or on the public to be beautiful and interesting. In the same way medias couldn’t understand Elvis or in the same way record companies didn’t want The Beatles, no one wanted the Police.

Of course, in 77 or 78, everyone was looking for the new Clash or the new Sex Pistols and when the Police arrived, maybe rightly, those talents scouts only saw there some opportunists that were trying to take advantage of a scene that this band was trying to infiltrate. When I wasn’t part of that band anymore, and that it then consisted of Stewart, Sting and Andy, it was not any better. Of course Sting did find in Andy an associate and that new balance did please him more. In the previous combo, I was at the same time, the ‘punk’ guarantee’ and a support to Stewart. I, who would go out all the time in every London club ( I had actually been voted ‘ ligger of the year’ in a magazine called ‘city limits’ with Phil Lynnot of thin lizzy, while Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols arrived 3rd.. well, not something to get a medal but it gives you an idea of the life I was having..), who befriended the whole of the punk scene and would give report to my friends of the growing impact of that scene on the record companies choices and on the medias attitude, I was conforting Stewart on the direction he had chosen for his band, and who would then let Sting  hold his brakes. Sting wasn’t trying to really understand anymore. All that was bigger than him. Him, his priority was to find money and feed his family.

Maybe Stewart was right, maybe not. How can you be sure that he would make it with this band? In the meantime, and even if he would have liked to see this mates band find success, he would not close the door to any opportunity. The first one was the anniversary concert organised by ‘Gong’ in Paris, where each ex band member had to present a new group and where their ex bass player, Mike Howlett, brought Strontium 90, a 2 bass players band in which played Mike and Sting, and thanks to whom we meet Andy.
Andy, older than us, was mainly doing studio session work, and had wanted to join the Police, like an extra and for fun.
That concert, quite simple to play for Sting and also for Stewart, had brought in money. Always something taken. As far as Stewart was concerned, it was giving some air. He was the leader of the band and he had to keep the Police, especially Sting who wouldn’t stop keeping us informed of his ideas to go on tour with Billy Ocean, since his friend Gerry from Last Exit had become his musical director and was looking for a bass player, or even to join a band on a boat cruise, doing rock or jazz standards. Piece of cake for him.

Well, as long as there would be some money opportunities, Stewart would manage to keep Sting in. the good thing with Andy, is that he had many similar opportunities. Every year, he would to Germany work with a german guy Eberhard Schoener , who was doing a sort of progressive classical rock, a genre that the germans always liked, and that had basically disappeared from the English musical panorama. His shows would actually go on german TV. Out of a 2 months work period there, Andy could easily live 6 months in England. That had impressed Sting. Andy started to hang with us, came on stage a few times and then joined the band.

A new balance was born. Stewart and I, on one side, holding the band in the ‘Punk Rock’ context in which it had been created, and Sting and Andy on the other, in a more , let’s say, adult or grow up way.  Which meant that, if that new element was not ideal for the vision that Stewart had, he gave us extra time or respite..
Sting was more relaxed and had changed his way of writing. He was listening to Bob  Marley all day long and was bringing in different things. And he would bring some rocks songs, like ‘visions of the night’. That one we had liked and had decided to incorporate in the set.
But that new balance did not last very long. It is rare that things go forward in an equilibrium. The session with John Cale had been the detonator. The row that happened in the studio that day, badly orchestrated by a drunk John Cale, had put in the light the powers in presence, and Stewart that day had stayed, rightly so, in the middle. Stewart had to try to  save his band. In the stride, I was gone. The band survived.
But that was another alert. The Police could go on, but at a price.

The respite will now come from Andy who had sessions to do in Germany and had to go for 2 months. He had told Eberhard about his new band and about the drummer great playing abilities. He had also tried to sell the singer bass player but Eberhard had only room for a drummer. Once in Germany, Andy and Stewart put pressure on Eberhard to take the whole band who, since they had had a feature in an advert for a chewing gum had now their hair died in blond. Under pressure, Eberhard accepted.

Not only, this would bring money in, but it is also Eberhard who had helped to shape the future sound of the Police, asking them to let go on long jam sessions and advising them to work and improvise the dynamic of their music.
Money in their pocket and a bit less pressure, The Police went back to London with the intention to record an album.

That   album, they demoed it. And when they managed to bring in all the
recordcompanies and all the London music managers to come and listen, some did and
they all refused the Police again.
Everyone but Miles Copeland who, if he thinks that they were wrong in splitting with
me , who was they ‘punk’ guarantee, and who feels that it will be difficult, has trust in this
song, ‘Roxanne’, that he loves and see already as a ‘classic’ or an ‘ evergreen’!
Miles decides to go and see A&M, that he know well and with whom he already worked.
He has signed Squeeze with them, and they had a number 1 with ‘ cool for cats’.
A&M are not interested. It is not what they are looking for. Miles insists, battles and
finally obtain a contract. A small one but it is a recording contract. No a penny in
advance.! They do for Miles because they want to maintain that relation with
Squeeze’smanager.

Roxanne comes out in England and… flops! Nothing! Bad criticsn and no radios are
playing it. The people from A&M don’t fail to remember Miles that they had warned
him and that it was to be anticipated, and that nobody wants his brother’s band.

Ian, Miles and Stewart’s brother had gone to work for a US booking agent and he had been trying for some time to bring in the states some punk bands. Him, who had spent a year in England after been back from the Viet Nam War, had seen all those bands and loved that new wave. The problem was that in the US nobody wanted them. The record companies did not release the records and the medias ignored them. Miles, on the contrary, sees there an opportunity. How about if the Police would go and try it in the States ? Ian could book somes dates in New York clubs, like Max’s or CBGB’s?
Anyway, here in England, there is nothing for the Police. Over!
And there a genious idea starts to grow in his brain: since no punk band has managed to go and play in the USA, but since there is a rumour that talks about this new musical scene that is the rage in England, since this rumour tells that the bands only a look but can’t play, why, with the help of a very supportive Ian, the Police could not go and play in America, presented as the ‘ big mean punks’. They already have blond hair and that, in a conservative America , would mark spirits, leave an impression and even give an illusion.
He goes and see A&M again and ask them to finance a trip to New York. First of all, A&M refuses again, no believing in this band’s fortune, and then, under the constant assaults from Miles, they finally let 4 cheap one way tickets to New York, on the Laker Airlines, the budget company that just started. 3 for the band and 1 for Kim Turner who would be the roadie, the sound man ,the driver and the co manager.
In the end, all is well, and miles leaves A&M with a suitcase full of singles that the band have to sell to sort themselves a return ticket!!
Sometimes, it is hard, isn’t it. But when you feed yourself success dreams, you have to accept to take instead big blows in your face, and you have to close your eyes at each humiliation.
How many bands would have held until then? How many would have accepted to take all this in? Would you? I can’t say I would have? Of course, when you are just 3 of you, it helps.

And that is how, the Police went to America. What is great, it is that they managed to come back since America fell in love with this ‘punk’ band who were playing really well (!!) and since they not only sold they suit case full of singles, but even made money at the concerts!!! In the end, the Americans told themselves that those punk rockers could actually play! They didn’t expect that… With all the things they had heard or read about the English punk scene… Ok, the look, with blond hair… It is a bit ‘feminine’, but all things considered, it is great! We like it!
Too much!!

When they came back to England, with that success in their pockets and some new dates already booked in the US, Miles convinced A&M to re release and rework ‘Roxanne’.
This time, the sound held and their story started for real.

So, when you see that the Police are back and will play here or there, like the ‘Stade de France’, think about it! And stop going on , especially to me, about the ticket prices ( it is cheaper that a football game!!!) or stop trying to find how much money they make. And if you want to waste your time on this, don’t ask me, I couldn’t care less about this kind of angst. I am happy for all the people that fight and make it. And if not, don’t go!
Think properly about their beginnings? Remember also that this band should have never existed if record companies and journalists had had the last word!

It is often the children who have a laborious birth who become the best fighters! And that is why we like them so much.

In any case, as far as I am concerned, that is the way. I was following their footsteps in the beginning, supporting with all of my heart until they took on the world, and still until today, wishing more than anyone that they would reform.
In the face of the world.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 26TH 2007

The album will be out in england on april 4th and in the US on march 27th. In the meantime, here is what it is all about……

Album biography.

After having spent 2 years thinking whether wish and urgency, passion and love of music could still live together, all this after having spent 5 years doing show business stars management, one day, my friend Jean Henri Meunier asked me to write music for a movie he was working on with Jacques Perrin. I did go for it, more for frienship than pleasure. Good for me, because as soon as I plunged back into writing, I knew that it was all I wanted .

The first song, the last on the album, that I wrote est therefore the 15, ‘Ici Najac’, song for the movie ‘ La vie comme elle va’ ( as life goes by) We insisted in having it on the album. I did it on my own and I played all the instruments, at home in a home studio that I installed in the attic of my house for the occasion. Only my 10 years old daughter, Fédora, helped me with her little and sublime voice. Jean Henri and Jacques Perrin loved it. Jean Henri Meunier used that song for next movie he did, titled exactly like the song ‘Ici Najac, à vous la terre’ ( Najac speaking, over to you the earth) and that movie was in the 2006 Cannes film Festival official selection! What followed is in the album.

1. Welcome Home : one of the last songs that I wrote for the album . I guess I was listening to some Velvet Underground that day. The song came to me as a whole. It is Yves Aouizerate the producer and Serge Veneruso the engineer, who thought about Stewart Copeland. I called him and he said ‘Yes’, instantly and he suggested to me to call Sting. It was a good idea. Sting said ‘Yes’ also instantly.

2. Acheve ta haine ( achieve your hatred): I had been having this waltz chord sequence in my head for a long time, as often melodies haunt your soul. But I never tried to make it as a song. Steve Hunter and his magical guitar solo gave t exactly the style I was hoping to get. J-Max came and added the piano it needed. Very easy. It is like jazz but played by rockers. One of my favorites on the album. As far as the text is concerned, listen and don’t ask yourself questions. Chose our priorities.

3. J’y vais pas tout droit ( I am not going there straight): Lounge ? It came that way. I did it. For me, it is a sort of a mixture of some West Montgomery for the verses and of some Radiohead in the choruses. I love both. I had a great time writing strings arrangements. I don’t cite any references as not to look fake or pretentious, but we believed in it. When I sung it, if the texte seem the one of an impossible love, I was thinking very hard about all theses causes that die even before they are born and that you cannot follow.

4. Elle est sur son île ( she is on her island) : I already had the music. I love playing an electric guitar fingerstyle, like an acoustic. Once more, I was thinking about Lou Reed and the album ‘ Transformer’. It is my own and personal ‘ Perfect Day’. I nearly asked Laetitia Casta to sing it with me, as the 2 corsican natives that we are. It would have been a great hommage. Maybe I should have done it..

5. La terre tourne ( the world goes round) : Written in one go one afternoon, after my son related me his english classes exploits. He was with me and I was playing electric guitar very loud in the house. Written very quickly, it should be played very loud. Chris Musto on drums and Glen Matlock on the bass. Yazid Manou told me that the bridge had airs of ‘Like a rolling stone’. It is true. It was a coïncidence. But when we recorded it, we made a wink at Bob Dylan, who, after all, is the Real Thing.

6. Ai juste besoin de toi ( I just need you): That song, I did write it in 1984 in Paris. Of course, it had to be played as a band. That is what we did with Chris Musto, Glen Matlock and Steve Hunter in the ADS studios in Paris. That band, perfect in my eyes, will be the one we shall bring on stage very soon, and we shall ask Lol to join, on guitar as well. Quick!

7. La mort ( death) : The theme in the middle, I did write it for the Flying Padovani’s and I was playing it as a classical piece on the guitar. A pinch of 60’s, some Beatles and some Pink Floyd. We tried. We all flirt with death and very often it caresses us. It will come on hour H, on D day. It is written.

8. Y a plus de saisons ( there are no seasons left) : Again, one that came out instantly. I love blues and I love playing in open G tuning. That one, I can play it where and when I want, as when I did it in the studio, in one go on my old Gibson B25. Nothing to say. One take and that’ it!

9. Au commencement ( In the beginning) : One of the last ones, maybe even the last one written for the album. Yves and I had loved the demo so much that, not succeeding in matching the joy it gave us at each listening, we went back at it and uses it as it was, except the vocals that i redid during the mix. I love the chorus that seems wrong, with its chords that run in a strange way and that emphasise the incoherent finality.

10. J’noie mes ennuis ( I drown my troubles)  : We wanted it Jacques Brel.. we wanted it Doors…we wanted it Beatles.. we really liked it and we hesitated so much that we nearly didn’t put it in the album. In the end, we mixed the three. We could have called it ‘ a 50 years old man’s reflections’.

11. A croire ( when you believe) : this one wasn’t finding its arrangement. We thought about doing an electro trip, as a hidden track at the end of the album. And yet, it had in its chorus, the title of the album, ‘ à croire que c’était pour la vie’ . we redid it entirely during the mix sessions. We lost 2 days but it was worth it. In the end, instead of electro, it is a psychedelic cowboy that welcomes you.

12. Complices ( accomplices) :  On a magnificent lyric, you need a simple arrangement . I didn’t find better : alone with a piano. I worked a lot the writing of the piano part. I love waltz, in fact. It feels happy, like a sunday afternoon walk in Paris. May be in the Jardin du Luxembourg. The text on the other end, brings you back to reality.

13. Parfois (Sometimes) : I had written it on my guitar and as soon as I wanted to record it, it changed, rythm and writing. As Jean Pierre Sabar, Serge Gainsbourg’s  arranger told me, how do you do a song on a single harmony ? But, you can if you have Manu Katché on drums who blows life into it and carried it so simply and so lightly. I redid the vocals when we mixed. It had to be sensual.

14. Il était une fois ( Once upon a time) : we put it at the end. It is my favorite of the moment. It floats so much that you don’t need drugs. It talks about sex and paradise. It is all there. We all dream about that. It should have ended the album , if we didn’t give you ‘ Ici Najac’. But it is an ending that calls for a return.

In the meantime, you can order it , here… Go to the store.. Henry

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH.2007

Tonight I will go see sting play in paris his lute album. I am pretty happy since I will bring my 2 kids with me and considering they’ve  never seen him play live, I will be curious to have their comments and what they will tell him when they talk to him. Having said all this, what they are going to see, has nothing to do with the sting we know and the police of course. When he was young, my son asked me once about the police and wondered what happened. He was about 7 years old and told me: they must be mad! A man ( me) that can make his guitar sound like a bumble bee!! That was so sweet of him. He was really impressed by the flying padovani’s instrumental guitar record and especially by the break in the ‘ bumble bee’ where my guitar sounds like a bee about to take off. Now, he has his own band, they are doing great, he plays guitar ( of course) and sings. He is also an 18 years boy, who had last year his A level brilliantly and now is in mathematics university in rennes. Check out his myspace address: http://www.myspace.com/smatchlegroupe.
I hope you guys are getting ready for the police reunion. Let me tell you one thing: frankly, it is a bore to read all the stupids comments I do read now and then. The band has decided to reform. Are happy or not? Stop going on about money, fan clubs, sting, bla bla and so on. Ok? If you are not happy with this, just don’t go the shows. I wish people would grow up and be happy about the things they do. Are you doing things don’t like to do? Well, personally, if I didn’t like something, I would not do it. Please, do not go and buy tickets if you are doing it with remorse or if you are pissed off doing it. The whole thing is about fun! You guys have asked for so long for a reunion, now you got it! Ok! I am extremely happy. It was about time as well.
Check on the site the song I did with stewart and sting last year: welcome home. And actually, that song is not about the reunion and the ‘welcome home’ has nothing to do with a ‘ welcome back’. The song is about the planet and how the earth is our address, to all of us. I sing it in french but the translation should go something like this..Check them:
WELCOME HOME SWEET HOME

LIMITED LIFE, CHUFFED AND OVERCROWDED WORLD
FINISHED LIFE, BLOWN OUT AND OFF AXIS PLANET
BIG FESTIVAL OF THE LIVING DEAD, GHOSTS AND FOETUS OF ALL RACES
REDS, BLACKS, YELLOWS AND WHITEYS
WATCH OUT FOR HUMAN RAPTORS

WELCOME HOME SWEET HOME

IT IS NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE BORN POOR THAT YOU ARE NOT INVITED
IT IS NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE BORN RICH THAT YOU ARE INITIATED

WELCOME HOME SWEET HOME, JUST ONE ADDRESS , PLANET EARTH

ALL GOES AWAY ,JUST ONE WORLD , AND EVERYONE ALONE
ALL GOES AWAY, TO EACH ONE ITS OWN BIBLE

SHORT, AVERAGE OR LONG STAYS   SOLO, AS A TANDEM OR VIP
PAYABLE IN CASH, CREDIT AND EVEN BY LAY AWAY
TO EACH ONE ITS OWN DESTINY

WELCOME HOME SWEET HOME  etc etc

I am pretty pleased that the 3 of us got together for such a message.
That will be out in England, US, scandinava, italy and france around spring. Just go and buy it, if you like it. The album will be out also around the same time. In the meantime, if you want it immediately, just order it here, or through the paypal address: info@henrypadovani.com. We will send it to you.
Otherwise, write to me on the same address, and we’ll see what we can do!!

I will try to be back very soon… cheers. henry

TUESDAY 2007 JANUARY 9th 2007

And a happy new year to everybody !!
Ok, what are we going to wish each other, apart from health and peace ?
Love? Yes, plenty!!!
Since Christmas, everyone is asking whether the Police will reform or not.. good question.. All I can say, and I have got my sources, is that serious discussions are taking place. So, I reckon, it is going to happen..
Cool, or what?

The Police reunion.. the Police 2007.. you read tons of things and, believe me, if that happens, we are going to enjoy it.
And i don’t have to tell you how universal are going to feed us Police stuff. Between you and I, I would rather listen to Police on radio that to most of the stuff I hear.

So, let’s talk anniversary : friday, january the 12th, will be the anniversary of the first rehearsal stewart and I did with Sting. At stewart’s flat.
That was on January 12th, 1977. that day, sting arrived with his son Jo, in a travel cot and us, stewart and I, we were waiting for him in the sitting room, dressed like bandits, shades on, and we had adopted the dangerous rockers pose!!!! Ah,he probably thought we were idiots. But then, we played, and sting accepted to join the band and the Police was born.
Cool or what?

Should we celebrate this friday ? I feel like it.
After all, as stewart and miles said, I got those 2 together 2 years ago when we recorded ‘welcome home’. It was, after all, a pretty good title, a sort of a premonition.

Ok, I will look for an idea and I will come back to make you a present. The first of the year with the Police… or let’s say a sort of a revamped version of it, but a real one!!
Let’s check on Friday.
Happy new year again!

THURSDAY 2006 SEPTEMBER 21 ST
Long time, I know.  I should have never said that I was going to write everyday. Big mistake, it is impossible. Who does?
There are always so many things to do. Especially in our business.
So the last time we spoke we were to climb those red carpeted stairs in cannes. We did!

The stairs are just stairs.  They have a red carpet on. What was special was the people. Not that I care about famous people, no… the people..so many.. from escorts to dealers, producers to bouncers… and fans! Believe me the last few days, I didn’t sleep!
The movie is still in the cinemas since april. In fact, for those living in los angeles, we have been selected in the los angeles documentary film festival that will be held in december.
Ask me about it and I will try to help go see it.

Talking about los angeles, miles copeland will release my record in the USA. In french! He has put a new label together..and you know miles, I thought it would called CIA, for copeland international arts but it feels now that it will be called MAC 3.. miles aaron copeland the third.. could be.. I wanna hear what this stands for. Anybody who knows should tell me.
Stewart copeland, his brother, his brother from the police, will come to paris to present his dvd in october. I haven’t seen him since we recorded the track ‘ welcome home’ with sting for my album. A cool visit from him and long overdue!

Right now, I am working with chris musto, drummer extra ordinaire with the flying padovani’s, on the release of a complete recording of the padovani’s;
There will be songs from the ‘ they call them crazy’ album, from the ‘ font l enfer’ album, from the single ‘ va plus haut/western pasta’, there will be unreleased tracks 4 or 5, demos, and videos that were filmed at the venue, the rock garden and the moonlight in london in 1982 . Very cool videos with somme killers and fast versions of walk don’t run, wipe out, pipeline and even one totally mad of caravan. Gee, how fast did we play in those days.
Funny, as I wear a quiff.. you know , I look like a rockabilly boy.
I am trying to put my hands on a tv show we did in sweden ‘ mondagsbursen’, where we played 3 songs, I remember and played well and I have found also a frecnh documentary called ‘megahertz’ with a cool video of ‘va plus haut’ , lol coxhill on saxophone.
Well, wish me luck.
I am working on this.

THURSDAY 2006 APRIL 21st

Well, well, well….
Someone would have told me, I wouldn’t have believed him.

WE ARE GOING TO CLIMB THOSE FESTIVAL RED STAIRS !!!

Jean henri meunier ‘s movie ‘ ici najac, à vous la terre’ is in the official selection of the Cannes film festival 2006, not in competition.
So, I guess we are going to hear the song ‘ ici najac’, the one I wrote and put in the album, and in the movie, obviosuly, in that cannes palace.
Sounds good to me. I never thought of it before, but it feels right. We worked so hard for it..
I will tell you when we will climb the stairs and you will be all with us. It will be you also climbing those stairs with us, believe me.
Now, off to bed!
Today was a long day.

MONDAY APRIL 17th

Here we go. We had a long week end. French people love long week ends, don’t they?
The record and the book will be out on the 25th. That is in one week.

So this week we are going to get everything ready. For you who read this, you probably wonder how you are going to get the record or the book. That is if you want it.
Well, this is what we going to do this week. Get it together for you to order. Most likely a paypal situation or even send a cheque to this adress. Anyway, we’ll have t togther.

In the meantime, you can go and watch videos here. We put 2.
Which means you can hear the whole song as well. Cool or what?
‘Welcome home’ and ‘ici najac’. Welcome home , you are all familiar with, I mean the story of the song, the fact that sting and stewart copeland joined me on it and all. We talked enough about that, so, if you haven’t understood the whole story, you probably have been on a desert island with no computer.
‘Ici najac’ is the song I wrote for jean henri meunier’s movie. If you want to find out more about the movie , please drop me a line. Jean henri told me yesterday where to get to get it for free. Now, you won’t argue with that. The director is ok for you to get it for free, rush! That movie got the prize for the best creation documentary 2004 , here in france.
More about this freebie on this very soon.
In fact we used the end of the movie. Simple. The video is great. I really like it.

We now have all the 15 songs of the album ready in video format.
We’ll make them available soon enough. And we also will do a projection in a cinema in paris. I know, you who read probably do not live in paris. But let us do this one and we work out something everywhere else.

If you want to hear some songs check out the adress: http://www.myspace.com/henrypadovanimusic
This is great idea, that myspace.com. If you don’t know it, go and check it out.
You can hear some of the songs. And I keep changing them all the time.
Otherwise, the album will be available on itunes and most of the platforms available in the country you live in.

SUNDAY MARCH 26th

Allright! All done!!
Last week we finished the sleeve for the record. Well Chris Musto did. Yes, the Chris Musto who played in the Flying Padovani’s, Johnny Thunders and Joe Strummer, and who currently plays with Glen Matlock and his Phillistines.. Chris does also sleeves for a living and has probably done more sleeves than I have had hot meals!!
So the record has been mixed here at home by Yves Aouizerate. It sounds great and we have mastered it at Top Master in paris.
So all done!
It will be out on the 25th of april.
For those who live abroad, yes, you will be able to download it or order it directly from us. We shall put all the info on the site for you do do that.
The first single will be the track that we have done stewart, sting and I. Not because it is us three who play on it, even though that would have a reason to do it, but because it sounds great and we are extremely happy with it. A real single. I hope radios will play it. It sounds just right.

The book will also be out on april 25th.
Of course, it is in french for now. The publisher will eventually have it translated in english and italian. Watch out for news on that here. Having said that, if you are a Police fan and want to learn french, this is the way!!! Plenty of unreleased pictures too!!

Of course the book and record are not just about the Police. On the record you have also Steve Hunter playing wonderful guitars, Manu Katché playing magic drums , Glen Matlock, Chris Musto doing just great viby stuff. My son told me today the tracks on which Glen and Chris play are very ‘ velvet underground’. Interresting. In any case, he likes them. And that’s great.

Right now, with Yves Aouizerate, who produced the record, we are thinking about doing some internet modules, flash little things that will allow you to go directly with a click on the various and needed links to download the tracks. We love doing things like that. And , after all the work we have done on the album, these are relaxing times for us.
When you get that module, you’ll be able to forward it to friends etc, who might send it to other friends and we’ll have our own network.
So, take care. Now, I will be back more often. Please keep asking me questions. I will do my best to answer everyone, as always. And if you have ideas of stuff you would like to download, tell us and we’ll oblige. Like photos, tracks, all kinds of goodies. Who’s going to stop us!!
Love
henry

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18th

Look! Can I say ‘sorry’?
I haven’t been in touch for quite a while when I promised I should keep this up.
Yesterday, someone wrote to me and asked me about the music on the home page and also about the one that can be heard on the history page.
I just went there, and I realised that the site is a mess!!!
No update, song titles in french not translated!!!
Oh well, we shall put some order. And I should promise to write more news!

ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE ARE NEWS!!!

This morning I received from Peter Baylis a disc with tons of pictures from 1977.
Peter was a photographer and was a friend of us, of the police.
So here I have all these pictures from 77 !! just brilliant!
I will put some on line very soon and also I will choose some for the book!

The book: coming out on the 10th or the 25 th of april!!
The record: same thing, 10th or 25th of april.
Alos, we shall organise to have tracks to be downloaded directly.

We start mixing on the 27th of february here in my house.
So you see, I have been busy.
I will update the site and keep in touch. That is a promise.
I have done it on the french site but not here.

Can I keep a promise?
I can.