The Police – Sting, Andy Summers, and Stu Copeland played their final and last gig ever at NYC in Madison Square Garden Aug. 7th. The band played a sky rocketing 151 shows and the band made more than $358 million playing those shows.

The band played most of their usual hit songs that everyone knows such as “Message In A Bottle”, “Everybreathe You Take”, “Roxanne”, “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” and plenty more but the band threw in a few surprising cover songs such as Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love”.

Sting invited his young daughters to the stage to dance along with their father during “Every Little Thing She Does…”. During the band’s cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze”, during the guitar solo of that song, Sting went backstage and a video screen appeared with Sting getting his beard shaved. Sting then came back out on stage, clean shaven.

When the band closed off their set, the three of the band member stood next to each other and gave the audience one final bow, hugged, and runned around on stage while the Fat Lady sang. A Looney Tunes song “That’s all folks” played as the band walked off stage.

The setlist for Madison Square Garden August 7th:

“Sunshine of Your Love”
“Message in a Bottle”
“Walking on the Moon”
“Demolition Man”
“Voices Inside My Head” / “When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around”
“Don’t Stand So Close to Me”
“Driven To Tears”
“Hole in My Life”
“Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
“Wrapped Around Your Finger”
“De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da”
“Invisible Sun”
“Can’t Stand Losing You” / “Reggatta de Blanc”

Encore one:
“Purple Haze”
“Roxanne”
“King of Pain”
“So Lonely”
“Every Breath You Take”

Encore two”
“Next To You”

The Police will also release this concert to CD/DVD which Best Buy scored the right to exclusively sell it through, that way for the fans who didn’t go will still get to experience the final concert. It will be released this year on Oct. 7th.

Billboard reports:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003836921

Sounds like a good show, I’ll buy the live CD/DVD when it hits stores.

Now Sting will probably go back to his solo career and release a new solo album after this.

Kev