The Police at their peak. Synchronicity was the peak of their commercial popularity, this is their peak as a live band.

Andy's sound is very common now, but when he started it was revolutionary. He changed the way guitarist played the instrument.

Once again listening to Copeland’s masterful drums. One of the best.

I never saw them live, but watching this I am amazed with Andy Sumers' ability to make the band sound so full. Truly one of rock's most underrated guitarists. I love Sting's voice and Stewart Copeland - what can you say except that he's just incredible!

Possibly the all time ultimate 3 piece band

Damn, the extended jams in this show are fantastic. Ambient but with fullness that they don't usually have. Stewart's backing vocals are also pretty damn good here. Probably the peak of their live act IMO.

As a drummer who idolized stu when I was in a police tribute band , to me studying piano and struggling which instrument I prefer, I am pretty much bowing to stings talent as a singer playing bass. That is insane difficulty that only ppl who play instruments understand

Great to hear Deathwish live - a great and underrated track!

November 29, 1980 Those days have gone, unfortunately...

At their peak and Sting at his most intense. Stellar performance- Deathwish, Beds too big, driven to tears, shadows in the rain are all sublime and fully jammed out that are far superior to the recorded versions

Still one of the most Happenings since the Stones or the Beatles

The reason why I became a bass player. Just a fab band.

I like the dynamics of this music, you can hear everything. Nothing is a blur like a lot of concerts. When you are bombarded with guitars and bass you get sonic fatigue. Here with this music, you don't. Makes you want to hear more and more.

I have been listening to The police since 1978 but Never realized that its Andy summers who made The police music unique. just check his work on bring on the night , you think there are three guitarists playing. stings voice and bass lines , with the legendrey stewart , this band is untouchable .. s

My favorite guitar "teacher"..i played those police albums and tapes and cds bazillions of times.. not to cop his style.. but to learn ftom it... love his workand his documentary is incredible.. thank you andy summers for some of my best guitar lessons every.. your rhythm playing went right to my soul... taught me everything i needed.

Thank you to John Sher for recording all these historic concerts and making them available. Although I would not mind seeing a bit more Stewart Copland

40 years! Still kicks ass!

I snuck into The Police + The GoGos at the Rosemont Horizon outside Chicago by simply handing the clueless ticket taker an unused Emerson, Lake & Palmer ticket. Great concert.

Tones of energy, they just never stop, unbelievable!

Such a great tour... and XTC were playing support at the time of their Black Sea album. Those were the days...

I saw this concert when they played in Buenos Aires ..Unforgettable

great band , 3 perfect pieces together.....seen them at this show....was in last row !!

The musicianship of those three was astonishing.

Musicianship off the charts

They were at their most muscular peak here in the sense it was obvious to everyone they were a force to be reckoned with. They were themselves and not a genre. They made it cool and smart to be a Police fan. They deserved the money.

Amazing how they all work together, like no other band I can remember. Closer to Grateful Dead territory. They are fingers of one hand. Watch how Andy picks out the four notes for Bed's Too Big, he picks up rhythm while Stingo goes solo. Stewart Copeland Is one of the two best living drummers.

One song after the other, no gimmicks, relentless.....and packed with energy from start to finish. What a band!!

Saw them on the Ghost in the Machine tour. I was 11 years old and still was one of my favorite concerts I went to.

NOICE !! gotta love The Capitol Theater for their commitment to preserving rock history...

caught them in NY .. I was a young angst drummer.. I was fixed on Stewarts drums and signature snare pop.. with attitude.. and what was written on his Toms..

Outstanding guitar work by Andy.

Holy crap this is intense. I’ve always enjoyed the Police, but I’ve never really explored their live work until the last few days. The energy is just on fire from beginning to end, I envy people who saw the Police live during this period.

Sat in the last row with Scott and Figs great concert

One of the top 5 rock groups of all time.

Wow. was born in 1980 and grew up listening to The Police, but I never realised how talented they were - I always pictured another couple of support musicians on stage with them. All three band members were on top form in this performance, and I would have to say that they are some of the best musicians I have ever seen put on a live show after watching this.

Love the police early albums..they provided the musical background to my late teens and 20s ..

I'm so grateful that Sting still performs so many of these songs live and I've been fortunate to stand in the front and rock out to these classic Police songs 43 years later. It keeps me young!

now that's multitasking, hitting those notes on the minimoog while playing bass!

The GREATEST 3 piece of all time! 😊 ❤😮

The live version of “bring on the night” is a great song.

I was at this show all the way in the back , great post.

I saw The Police at Memorial Drive Adelaide in 1980 when they just began their world wide popularity and I was 16 and loving life 🎼💯✔️

This was their best tour, three albums worth of material, sticking to the tracks on the album, with some great jams. While their best album is yet to come, ghost in the machine (which is my all-time favorite album of any group/artist) but on that ghost tour, some may remember was when sting started to create new arrangements of their songs for live concerts. These Arrangements were not good ( and I am being kind about it). Take a look at the ghost tour and his awful rearrangement of Hungry for You. This, in turn led to some thinking that they are not a good live band, but that was actually not the case and with the synchronicity tour they sort of got back to just playing the songs. Sort of, Not completely though, The Grammys and their reunion tour was again rearranging great songs to make them less not more. A shame. Ghost in the machine is near perfection, if not perfection. The band’s amazing talent was tightly surrounded by keyboards and saxophones. Why not play like the record in concert? Went to that show and it was very disappointing. Oh well, I got over it. Sort of.

Love it when Andy plays square sounds and Sting plays round ones!

how could Sting possibly make that bass sound really mysterious?

Wow this is the greatest live stuff I’ve heard other than the first disc from the double live disc. Thanks ,

I saw this tour' live in Fukuoka, Japan. Thank you for the upload!

Great stuff! And irrefutable proof that these three guys completely earned their success, working their ass&s off in amazing gigs like this across the world.

Wonderful concert footage! Thanks for the upload.

the best all times

The best gig ever from Police amazing never see that before! Thank you!! 🙏🙏🤘

Shadows in the rain, Summer's harmonics are to die for..

Such a sick show - they killed it on "Man In A Suitcase"....was hoping for Secret Journey but I've never seen a video, just a recording or two live.

Amazing Band....Amazing concert!

omg this is so amazing. thanks for uploading. 28:26 is gorgeous, what a break...

this was a perfect venue back in the day

Thanks for posting this!

Luarbiasa band masa SMP ku (Excellent very, my fav band during high school

Wow--I didn't know they still included "Fall Out" on the setlist this far into their career!

Man. I'm old and this is one of my favorites

I was there with my brother

Speakers are exploded, THE POLICE sirens are started. Energy, generosity on the stage were the key of this incomparable & unforgettable band. Unique Sting boice, unique Copeland hit=hat & snare sound, unique Summers British phlegm : unique trio.

Typically, I try to share a high-point in a long-play video. But, there is NONE! This is INCREDIBLE throughout! Eh?

Downloaded. Thank you! Gulf Shores

Love this version of "Man In A Suitcase"

This is goldust...why have i never seen this before??

I can't give this enough Thumb's up 👍 !

My loves brought so much joy to my life.

I have perused LOTZ! Thx for the B & W classics! Capitol Theater is/was a classic Venue! Just imagin' being the Crowd!

Love this. Thanks a lot

Amazing then! Still amazing today! Too bad Sting couldn't do his solo work and still make music with The Police....Thanks for posting!!!!!!!!

the police imortal

Just so talented

Brilliant performance.

I was at this show. Finally got around to watch this all the way through. I suppose I hadn't ever before because I remember it being GREAT and didn't want to look at this video to see otherwise 30 years later, LOL. Good news: It was great. Especially the second half of this video including Roxanne and the encores. A strong memory that I had was that during Roxanne, they had very bright backlights that seemed blinding to the audience. They turned them on during the chorus of the song. It was very cool because those lights hadn't been used prior to that moment of the show. I did see evidence of this in this video, but the angle that the camera captures the stage doesn't give it full effect. I'm going to trust my memory of it ; ) Trust me. I was happy to watch this today, seeing Sting in his prime, about to become a world-class performer. I also got reminded why Stu was my favorite drummer back then. I loved the way his entire drum kit shook and bounced. The Police were a great band. Last comment - the video that proceeds this one is from a show in the UK not quite two years after this one. You can see what a big year and half it was for the band, and how popular they had become. And one more comment from me - I saw them at Nassua Coliseum at the end of their North America leg of the Ghost in the Machine Tour. I expected it to be not as good as this one, (much larger venue, etc) but it may have been even better. Can somebody post THAT concert?? Haha.

Although zenyatta mondatta is not their best work in my opinion, they were at their peak live on this tour. On this concert they were amazing, I especially like when the World is running down, bring on the night, so lonely, driven to tears and the bed's too big without you.

In the 6th or 7th Grade('77 or '78) and was checking out an Afternoon Special about Roadies and showcasting The Police. THE REST IS HISTORY!!

Brilliant... although one can hear how much Sting used to hammer his voice on tour circa 1980. Still utterly fantastic, nevertheless.

Back in the days they had the punk rock vibe with the sophisticated equipment of a prog band (fretless 8 string bass, 3 taurus pedals and 2 minimoogs!!!)

A great sound on Andy's guitar.

I started at Message in a bottle, looking understand Andes Summer, but the drums arise by them selvesand, when ling on the bass.. another genius grows... The entire nad is amazing! But is wxample of sinergic working of three genius.

They are really amazing, thru the years, The Police!!!!

I am a huge Police fan but I was still a little young to fully appreciate them this early. I was bourn in 1967 so I was still kind of a tweenager during this year. I had just discovered them in 1980 and only had a couple of their songs I recorded off of a radio station late night on a crappy mono tape recorder but it was a treasure to me. These are my favorite songs and did not realize how far back they recorded them. Man do I wish someone would have do a new vinyl pressing of this concert. I would be in heaven. Hell even a remaster with a clean up and new vinyl pressing would be worth it's weight in Gold to me. I still have 5 decent cassette decks at home just waiting for a tape of this to play. TDK, Sony, Tascom, 3M anybody out there are you paying attention? Are you listening? Many of us are starving for actual Music instead of the garbage being dumped out there today. What does it tell you when many current groups have been trying to play covers or are sampling older music to make new recordings of their tweaked music.

Best trio ever

That a Diamond Dave impression at 1:11:37?

Mesmerizing, energetic, incredible.

El mejor grupo musical de tres personas, de todos los tiempos.

Ninth grade when they played this show. Mrs. S, the French teacher. Don't Stand in reverse. Great memories.

I saw this tour when I was 15. Changed my life--my "garage band" at the time went Police crazy. We practiced basically Cars and Police covers for a while. Three guys leaving on the stage like no one else could at that time. Thanks for posting this. Great memory of a great time.

I didn't know the police were this good this early

Sorry I wasn't there. Absolutely great

Saw this tour several days later on 12/8/80, in Sunrise Florida. One of my all time favorite concerts. Turned on the car radio after the concert to hear more Police. The news of John Lennon being killed that night was announced.

So amazing and the really scary bit is that if feels like just yesterday!

I loved THE POLICE when i was very young (1980...), funny, but in the same time i loved STATUS QUO too

Incredible performance. 👏

Excellent two thumbs up

Deathwish is nice!

Although I enjoyed the 2007-2008 reunion very much, I still feel that The Police legacy would’ve been better served by a big box set of concert footage, beginning with their performance at Mont de Marsan in 1977 and ending at Shea Stadium in 1983, or Atlanta 1986...

Great show indeed!

i wont get any better than this those days are over....