Out now is the photo book The Police: 1978 - 1983 by noted rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith. Goldsmith chronicles the band's career from their early days on tour in the U.S., through their numerous world tours, up to their final 1983 road trek behind their album Synchronicity.
Goldsmith says that she compiled the book as much for the band's original following as she did for the offspring of those fans: "It's now like, 20-something years later, and a lot of those fans have kids, so they would be able to sit down with the book. That's why I include a certain amount of performance (shots), because people identify with that -- they're there. But they also want to know what it was like to be in the recording studio, or to be at home with Sting, and Andy (Summers), and Stewart (Copeland) in their own turf. What kind of cars did they drive? What did they look like when they're not on the road? What did they look like in the beginning before they had any money? How did the whole thing really happen?"
Goldsmith's last rock photo book was 2000's Springsteen: All Access, which featured mainly unpublished shots from the E Street Band's 1978 tour in support of Bruce Springsteen's album Darkness On The Edge Of Town. Throughout the years, her work has been featured in Life, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, People, Elle, Interview, US, and Paris Match, among others magazines.
Goldsmith is donating a portion of the book's royalties to the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, which supports music education and helps supply refurbished musical instruments to underserved school and community music programs and individual students nationwide.
Out now is the photo book The Police: 1978 - 1983 by noted rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith. Goldsmith chronicles the band's career from their early days on tour in the U.S., through their numerous world tours, up to their final 1983 road trek behind their album Synchronicity.