“A New York City press conference featuring the Police and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg today (May 6) heralds the band’s final concert ever, to be held in New York at a date to be announced in August.

This final concert will be a fundraiser with proceeds benefiting the production of arts programming for public television stations Thirteen/WNET and WLIW New York. Tickets will be available nationally online via the Thirteen/WNET and WLIW Web sites.

Additionally, Sting and the Police announced that they will contribute $1 million to Mayor Bloomberg’s MillionTreesNYC initiative — a gift the city will match — to plant trees all over New York City.”

This is interesting as the Police supposedly played their last show a long time ago and just recently reunited. It is always so hard to tell whether bands like this will really play a “last show” without coming back 5 years down the road for another tour.

I saw The Police last year, and while Stewart Copeland was amazing on drums, the band just didn’t have the same purpose or fire they did just from older videos I’ve seen. It just didn’t seem relevant.  Sting also seems completely out of touch with reality, he just seems like a larger than life rock-star persona.

The band’s last American/European tour of 50 shows, grossed $212 million dollars.

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