Summer Run To Be The Police's Final Tour
February 13, 2008
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By Ray Waddell, Nashville
The Police will take one more victory lap through North America on their massively successful reunion tour before calling it quits for good, sources close to the tour tell Billboard.biz.
The Police -- Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland -- will play another 30-odd dates in May and July in North America, with 15 previously announced European concerts sandwiched between in June.
Elvis Costello & the Imposters will open the entire run of North American dates, which wraps the first week in August.
This final leg will play primarily amphitheaters with a few arenas, beginning May 1 in Ottawa. These will be the first ever shed dates for the Police, as the amphitheater network present today was largely non-existent during the band's first go-round in the early 1980s. No festivals or stadiums will be part of the route.
Close to half the dates will be in markets not played last year in North America, where the tour began last May. The current leg finishes in Hawaii over the weekend.
A source close to the tour tells Billboard.biz that these dates will be the last time the band performs together as the Police - ever. It has been a lucrative reunion, as the tour will likely end up in the $340 million gross range, with attendance north of three million. That would make it one of the top five highest-grossing tours of all time.
The Police reunion tour is promoted by Arthur Fogel, chairman of TNA International, the global touring arm of Live Nation, and produced by RZO Productions.
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