Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.

And I'm Brian.

And what are we talking about today, Brian?

1978, outlandos, DeMore by the police.

Music What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.

We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and later on we get into a track-by-track review where we talk about all the things we

love about the songs and things we think while listening to them. Yeah, and we're not going to do

it alone this week. Absolutely not. We've got Kimmy Howe from Casino Sunday. She is a musician,

vocalist, and she's actually a bass player, which is kind of cool.

Yeah, apropos, and I think that's kind of why we ended up picking the police from her list of album's suggestions,

because we thought, yeah, give us a little insight as a singer bassist herself into a little bit of Stings singer bassist sort of

process. And I think that we had a very nice conversation with her that we're going to get to

shortly. Yep. But before we do that, Brian, do you mind filling in our listeners, myself? Give us all just a little bit

of a background so that as we have the conversation about the album, we're digging in when

names pop up, dates pop up. We all kind of know what we're talking about. We're not left out of the loop.

All right. I will do just that. American drummer, Stuart Copeland, uh, was touring the UK with a Prague rock band called

Curved Air, uh, around the mid-70s, like 75-76.

He met a school teacher named Gordon Sumner, uh, who was nicknamed Sting because of his propensity to wear a yellow and black

soccer jersey. Sting played in a jazz rock band called Last Exit, and they exchanged numbers

eventually kind of catching back up when Sting moved to London and curved air broke up. They formed

the police with a guitarist named Henri Padovani.

I was French.

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