18,000+ Fans Show Up At Last Police Concert To...Watch Sting Shave?
In what was being hailed as the "Last Police Concert Ever...No, Really, We're Serious", Sting decided that he wanted to mark the moment by having his tour beard
shaved off:
After an hour of vintage hits, the bassist and his accumulation of salt-and-pepper facial scrub left the stage — along with bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, of course — to await the traditional audience demand for an encore. After a few minutes, the big video screen above the stage blinked back on, and we saw Sting, now fetchingly bare-chested, stretched out in a backstage makeup chair while two women with electric clippers set about buzzing off the famous beard. Out front, the crowd watched in something like wonder. You could feel their hopes rise after the women reduced the foliage to a modest stubble and snicked off their trimmers; and you could feel them subside again when one of the amateur barbers slopped a large handful of shaving cream onto Sting's face and the process continued, this time with razors. I thought to myself, "People will pay to see anything."
This to introduce their farewell single,
Don't Stand So Close To Me, I Might Cut Myself With The Razor.
Not much else to say about it, other than it sounded like a rockin' good time at Madison Square Garden. Wow, there are times I wish I lived in NYC. :)
