BBC Special: 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.
