fromSlate Magazine
6 days agoEvery Breath Sting Takes, Every Hit Sting Makes-We've Been Watching Him.
Walk into any store or flip on a radio, and you'll probably hear the Police's "Every Breath You Take" sooner or later. Thanks to that ubiquity, the swooning, menacing megahit's songwriter-Sting-is a very wealthy man. Now, his former bandmates, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, are suing Sting over who deserves to profit from "Breath" and other Police songs.. No matter how that dispute turns out, it's a reminder of Sting's uncanny songwriting skill and his charmed life of hitmaking.
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