The Police is one of the few bands in music history to go out on top. After only 5 albums and the release of their biggest album to date, they called it quits. The album was ‘Synchronicity’ which came out on June 17, 1983. The album had 5 singles and sold over 10 million copies worldwide. However, before they called it quit, they did tour the album. The tour lasted from July 23, 1983 through til March 4, 1984 and consisted of 105 shows which break out to 66 shows in North America, 36 in Europe and 3 in Australia.
If you are curious, the average show had the following setlist…
- “Voices Inside My Head”
- “Synchronicity I” / “Synchronicity II”
- “Walking in Your Footsteps”
- “Message in a Bottle”
- “Demolition Man” (some shows)
- “Walking on the Moon”
- “O My God”
- “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da”
- “Wrapped Around Your Finger’
- “Tea in the Sahara”
- “Spirits in the Material World”
- “Hole in My Life”
- “One World (Not Three)”
- “King of Pain”
- “Every Breath You Take”
- “Murder by Numbers”
Encore
- “Roxanne”
- “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” (some shows)
- “Can’t Stand Losing You” / “Reggatta de Blanc”
- “Next to You” (some shows)
- “So Lonely”
A pretty impressive setlist and would’ve loved to have seen this tour, but I missed it. While out digging at one of my local record stores, I cam across the Tour Program from the 1983 leg of the tour and had to have it. I mean, I do collect Tour Books when I can find them. On a side note, the store had several autographed tour books fro Motley Crue, Skid Row, Metallica and a couple others but they all ran from around $275 and up. Not in my budget, sadly.
I thought I would show you what the Tour Program looked like from back in the day so here we go…and the cover is above, here is the rest…
And here is a little write-up with the guys…
And like most, if not all, programs, you get a page from each member. First up is Stewart Copeland…
And to follow is Sting…
And lastly but certainly not least, Andy Summers…
And we are already to the centerfold as this isn’t a very large program as some of the ones I have can be quite extensive…
And the rest of the book are simply pictures of the band and I think each member gets his fair share of shots…
And to end it, like normal, we get the credits and a discography page. Why would they not do this.
And if you notice on the page above, Stewart and Sting are on motorcycles, so why not have a Motorcycle company advertise in the program. Heck, it helps cover the cost of the books I am sure. Yamaha Motors along with MTV sponsored the tour so makes sense.
And that is it. Well, except for the back cover below…
Ok, now that is the end. A pretty simple tour program and hopefully didn’t cost much to the average fan back in the day. It only cost me $15 so I am sure no one made any money on selling this over the years. I hope you enjoyed!!
