Sting has reportedly been sued by his former Police bandmates over alleged lost royalties from their hit song Every Breath You Take.<\/p>\n
In the suit, filed in the high court in London, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland<\/a> claim they never received songwriting credits on the 1983 single. The pair also allege they have never been paid for their writing contributions.<\/p>\n The case is said to have been listed under \u201cgeneral commercial contracts and arrangements\u201d. Sting appears as a defendant under his real name, Gordon Matthew Sumner, along with his company, Magnetic Publishing Ltd.<\/p>\n The Police formed in 1977 and achieved a US No 1 single with Every Breath You Take, which appears on the band\u2019s fifth and final album, Synchronicity.<\/p>\n It was the bestselling US single of 1983, the fifth bestselling of the decade and was sampled on P Diddy and Faith Evans\u2019 1997 song I\u2019ll Be Missing You.<\/p>\n The band also had chart success with Roxanne, Every Little Thing She Does is Magic and Don\u2019t Stand So Close to Me before splitting in 1984.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Sting, 73, denied the legal action was related to Every Breath You Take but did not elaborate on the case, the Sun reported.<\/p>\n The Police have reunited on numerous occasions and, in 2023, launched an official TikTok account to mark the 40th anniversary of Synchronicity.<\/p>\n Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland and Sting in 1983. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc\/Alamy<\/p>\n Sting in 2021 said he regretted reforming the trio in 2007, calling the tour that followed \u201can exercise in nostalgia\u201d.<\/p>\n The musician explained at the time that he preferred being a solo artist due to the \u201ctotal freedom\u201d it offered.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Get our weekly pop culture email, free in your inbox every Friday<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not a power thing at all; it\u2019s just about producing exactly the brand and style of music that feels right for you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In June, Sting performed his greatest hits at the Isle of Wight festival including Message in a Bottle, An Englishman in New York, Walking on the Moon and Fragile. He also performed at the FireAid benefit in Inglewood, California in January.<\/p>\n Sting in 2022 sold his entire songwriting catalogue to Universal for an estimated $300m (\u00a3246m).<\/p>\n He is the latest eminent musician to cash in on a long and successful career. Bruce Springsteen sold his entire song catalogue to Sony Music in a deal worth $500m, while David Bowie\u2019s estate struck a $250m deal with Warner Music.<\/p>\n In 2020, Bob Dylan sold his entire catalogue of 600 songs, including Blowin\u2019 in the Wind and Knockin\u2019 on Heaven\u2019s Door, to Universal for almost $400m, setting an industry benchmark for future deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sting has reportedly been sued by his former Police bandmates over alleged lost royalties from their hit song…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-101666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}