The Police

How an iconic, generation-defining song helped break up the band that recorded it.

It’s hard enough to follow up a great debut album– especially if you rush out a terrible second album.

Mark Knopfler writes his own ending to the Dire Straits story.

A rare instance where a band’s most successful album helped lead to its demise.

Maybe when Stewart Copeland is done being a drummer, he has a possible career as a political spin doctor.

This is an old favorite of mine. I originally wrote it for my Livejournal blog and decided it was time to import it over here. Still holds up, except for the fact that the Verve broke up shortly afterwards. That and the Robbie Williams line about not wanting to rejoin Take That.