LOOKING BACK ON LEBLANC GENERATION
The Police could’ve easily been voted Least Likely To Do Much Of Anything when they were formed in 1977. The poppin’-fresh Punk Movement was dominating the Britscene like nothing had since the Have Mersey scene of John, Paul, et. al. The Sex Pistols were the talk of the isle (as in: "Isle bet they never last”) and punk credentials were important.
LOOKING BACK ON LEBLANC GENERATION
J. Kordosh
The Police could’ve easily been voted Least Likely To Do Much Of Anything when they were formed in 1977. The poppin’-fresh Punk Movement was dominating the Britscene like nothing had since the Have Mersey scene of John, Paul, et. al. The Sex Pistols were the talk of the isle (as in: "Isle bet they never last”) and punk credentials were important. The most important credentials a punk could have, in no particular order, were youthful zeal, lack of success, and a complementary lack of talent. The Police weren’t yet geriatric, but they had suspicious ability.
The band was started by Stewart Copeland, a drummer who’d (probably inadvertently) destroyed his punk credibility by drumming for Curved Air in 1975 and 1976. Curved Air was everything their name implied (boring), and it was certainly a blast of fresh (i.e., uncurved) air that blew bands of their ilk out of recording studios and off stages everywhere.