Documentary about the first international tour of the band The Police.Documentary about the first international tour of the band The Police.Documentary about the first international tour of the band The Police.
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- Alternate versionsOn May 20, 2022 "Around The World Restored & Expanded" was released on bluray and DVD. This title would suggest a longer running time, but the documentary is actually 10 minutes shorter. Almost every segment of the movie was tinkered with. The only noticeable expansion would be the replacement of slow-motion parts with actual (sometimes new) moving images. But mostly any scenes that might be seen as politically incorrect nowadays or that show the band members in a bad light (swearing, arguing, ...) are gone.
- the opening credits have been replaced with a modernized version
- in the very first scene the profile shots of Andy Summers and the lady in the garden (and one garden shot) are replaced with band scenes
- "Next To You" - one "woohoo" after the announcement is missing, the guitar solo including band shots at the train station are cut
- "Light Changes" - new "him killer dog" audio at the start; at the end about 35 seconds with Andy and Stewart talking are cut
- "Walking On The Moon" - slow-motion effects are replaced with additional shots of Sting signalling the end of the fight and Andy Summers being whirled around / Stewart Copeland's comment are partially cut
- "Guitar Man" - the dressing room argument at the end is cut
- tailor scene - bribing the tailor with what's probably a The Police pin : cut
- "Man In A Suitcase" - fan interview is partially cut, the radio announcer and scenes with the doctor are completely gone
- "Can't Stand Losing You" - the cough right before announcing the song & woman saying "thank you all for coming" : cut / one scene with costumes has been replaced / after "Alright Bombay" a few beats including an additional cough have been cut
- "Bring On The Night" - Stewart Copeland's "Arab" comments are cut / roadie Danny Quatrochi talking is cut
- "Voices Inside My Head" - the dressing room scene right afterwards with an angry Stewart Copeland was cut
- "When The World Is Running Down..." - one new Sting shot singing replaces a slow-motion effect / the end now features more moving images of the skyline and a short fade to black before "Shadows In The Rain" starts
- "Shadows In The Rain" - two scenes with Andy Summers and his bolos are cut
- "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" - completely cut (Sting being aggressive to a fan who threw mud at him)
- "Don't Stand So Close To Me" - fade-in: the very first vocals are not audible anymore
- "Truth Hits Everybody" - the first Jools Holland scene is cut, the song now starts to random fan footage / the whole middle section has gone, including a Sting backstage moment
- "Roxanne" - the end of the Frances Tomelty interview is cut - with Sting slowly looking into the camera / bare breasts are replaced with random audience scenes
- "Message In A Bottle" - end credits style has changed / background videos are different in parts
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Amazing compilation film of the Police's 1980-81 World Tour!!!
The Police were very good at documenting themselves. This video is proof of that! Filmed over a 11-month period this documents the Regatta De Blanc tour and then picks up on the Zenyatta Mondatta Tour. It all starts on February 15th 1980 at the Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo, then in Australia, Cairo and Bombay (two very unusual places for a pop group to tour then or now). Then it picks up in August of 1980 in Spain (where they seem a bit under the influence) and lots of footage from the same show in France as seen in Urgh! A Music War. This particular show has an extremely angry Sting cursing and baiting a member of the audience for throwing mud and stones at him - which prompts Sting to give the audience the finger. All this takes place during the song "De,Do,Do,Do,De,Da,Da,Da" which creates kind of an unusual, surreal contrast to the song. Sting yelling for a roadie to pull this guy out of the audience over the piped-in background vocals of the bridge. All this undoubtedly pumped up Sting and they proceed into a rip-roaring version "Truth Hits Everybody". The film ends with a January 1981 show at The Variety Arts Theatre in LA where the audience had to be blonde (wig/spray/dye/natural) to attend the show. Preceded by silly-would-be interviews of the band with the then-just-departed from Squeeze Jools Holland.
The video is interspersed with the band making a video for "Next To You" with a bunch of sheep and videos for Voices Inside My Head, Canary In A Coalmine and When The World Is Running Down... all unissued on their 'Every Breath You Take: The Videos" collections for some reason.
Hopefully a revised Special Edition DVD will be released with even more footage of songs (and full songs instead of the snippet of song - dialog - back to song sloppy editing job that you get here). In fact if it is ever "properly released" on DVD it could use with a nice edit job showcasing one thing at a time. Along with much more footage considering The Police have miles and miles of live footage that they're just sitting on...probably collecting dust somewhere...that the Copelands are not making any money on.
The DVD would benefit with a lot of extras like The Police In The East BBC special and the Florida show that was broadcast on the BBC.
If you can find it, pick it up. If you already have it then you know that this the best released footage of the Police in their prime!
The video is interspersed with the band making a video for "Next To You" with a bunch of sheep and videos for Voices Inside My Head, Canary In A Coalmine and When The World Is Running Down... all unissued on their 'Every Breath You Take: The Videos" collections for some reason.
Hopefully a revised Special Edition DVD will be released with even more footage of songs (and full songs instead of the snippet of song - dialog - back to song sloppy editing job that you get here). In fact if it is ever "properly released" on DVD it could use with a nice edit job showcasing one thing at a time. Along with much more footage considering The Police have miles and miles of live footage that they're just sitting on...probably collecting dust somewhere...that the Copelands are not making any money on.
The DVD would benefit with a lot of extras like The Police In The East BBC special and the Florida show that was broadcast on the BBC.
If you can find it, pick it up. If you already have it then you know that this the best released footage of the Police in their prime!
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- billjsw
- Mar 3, 2006
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