Andy Summers of The Police is going to be 71 this month ! Sure doesn’t look it .
Wow 71! I kinda had a crush on him as a teen.
My mother-in-law has no idea how completely she screwed the pooch when she arbitrarily denied my wife permission to see the Police in concert almost thirty years ago.
I have reaped untold rewards for taking her to two of their reunion concerts (one with VIP tickets), and sending her to New York City for their final show at Madison Square Garden, and audience at their Elvis Costello show interview.
Today we own one of a thousand signed lithographs from the tour promotion hanging above our bed, and one of Stewart Copeland’s broken drumsticks from the Costello show framed over my night table.
The Police always meant a lot to us, but they came through once again when their reunion tour gave us a shared distraction as we endured the agonizing wait for our daughter to be matched to us.