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British Rock Back[edit]

How come The Police are labeled as only a British Rock band when 1/3 of the band were American? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mopenstein (talk • contribs) 01:27, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Early music videos[edit]

I recently was surprised to discover that The Police had made several music videos even before the advent of MTV, it seems that there should be something in the article here at Wikipedia noting that. I came across the music video that was shot for the tune ‘So Lonely’ (from songfacts - The music video, directed by Derek Burbidge, follows the band through the streets of Hong Kong and on the subway trains of Tokyo. It was one of several videos they made before MTV. When the network launched, they were already seasoned pros when it came to music videos.) I did not know the band was one of the early adopters of the music video as a format. Should warrant some notation, no? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.233.44 (talk) 04:01, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The issue becomes putting that statement into context. How many other bands were also doing promotional videos at that point? Was it something their label was big into? We'd need some published sources before we mentioned that in the article. —C.Fred (talk) 14:36, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Music videos have been around since the 1960s but became regular practice after Bohemian Rhapsody#Promotional video in 1975. Andre Crabtree (talk) 21:11, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Would the videos themselves from the band’s YouTube channel qualify (or even from the band’s website itself which points to the YouTube channel) https://thepolice.com/videos/#/

While I do know that music promotional films were around throughout the sixties (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Moody Blues and The Kinks all making early videos) my question here was the absence of any kind of notation that the band did in fact make promotional videos before MTV and none of those videos are referenced. It’s not about positioning it as a ‘who did it first’ argument as much as making some notation the band was doing it at all and doing it before MTV was such a presence.

Fred you likely know about this better than I would as to whether or not the band’s own website would be considered a valid source since you could say it’s self published. I only recently came across Perennial_sources#Sources which I wish would be regularly pointed to in many cases where there is a dispute as it would be helpful in tamping down any conflict. While I might not totally agree with the some of the determinations on the list, I’m not setting the rules to play in this sandbox.

And again, I am only raising the question as to whether this information should at the very least be mentioned somewhere in the context of the article. 71.190.233.44 (talk) 21:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion about Every Breath You Take[edit]

I have started a discussion regarding a passage in the Every Breath You Take article regarding the piano part in the song. Feedback is welcome at Talk:Every Breath You Take § Piano part, revisited. isaacl (talk) 20:16, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization of The Police[edit]

Just for consistency, all references to the band name were changed from the Police to The Police. Gprobins (talk) 21:29, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nope! See MOS:THEMUSIC which stipulates lower case 'the' for band names in running prose. Binksternet (talk) 21:57, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]