- Each book bound in Vintage recycled leather, signed by Stewart Copeland
- Limited edition of just 100 numbered copies
- Presented in clamshell box bound in navy buckram
The Ultimate edition of the truest account of The Police’s beginning and early days.
‘Do you know where you were on September 25, 1976? Maybe not, but I do.
I was a long-haired alien drummer touring the UK in a prog-rock band called Curved Air, and that night we were in Newcastle where I saw a local band called Last Exit.
I know that because I was taking notes every day in my now slightly dog-eared, pocket diaries. I noted that they were ‘great’ and that we had a party. In a later diary entry, after realizing that punk was the future, I remark on the day that I persuaded their bassist to move to London and join me in my own punk band.’
Illustrated throughout with original diary pages, commentary, hand-made poster designs and previously unseen images, this is Stewart Copeland’s personal story of the ‘starving years’ of the band who became one of the world’s biggest acts.
Also includes:
- A signed, matching numbered, archival quality Giclée print of the Police, taken in Sting’s basement in 1977.
- This print is signed by Stewart and photographer Lawrence Impey
- A large edition-stamped Outlandos d’Amour poster
- A CD of 10 previously unreleased demos, many of which became Police songs
