Vinyl Record

The Police - Around The World: Restored & Expanded

The Police - Around The World: Restored & Expanded on LP vinyl. A 2022 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · 2022

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2022 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Around The World: Restored & Expanded captures The Police at the hinge between hunger and conquest. The film follows Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland during the band's first world tour in 1979 and 1980, when the trio were carrying Outlandos d'Amour and Reggatta de Blanc material across Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, India, Egypt, Greece, Europe, South America and the United States. The restored 2022 edition matters because it turns what was once an early video-era document into a fuller archive object, pairing the travelogue with live audio that highlights how elastic the band already was. Walking On The Moon, So Lonely, Can't Stand Losing You, Roxanne and Message In A Bottle are heard not as museum hits but as working weapons: fast, lean, reggae-splintered, full of space and tension. It is The Police before full 1980s dominance, learning the world while the world learns them.

It matters because it documents The Police becoming an international band in real time. The restored edition preserves the early trio's live chemistry, travel context and rapid rise before Synchronicity made them one of the biggest rock acts of the decade.

For collectors, the importance is the combined film-and-live-audio perspective on the 1979-1980 tour. The title is especially valuable as a document of the first two-album era, before the later stadium image overtook the band's sharper new-wave and reggae-punk beginnings.

Live new wave and reggae-rock with taut basslines, clipped guitar colour, explosive drumming, negative space, wiry punk speed, dub-influenced rhythm and the lean urgency of a trio still fighting upward.

Recommended for: Police collectors interested in early live and tour documentation; Fans of Outlandos d'Amour and Reggatta de Blanc material; Listeners who want the trio's pre-stadium energy in performance context.

What period does Around The World document? It documents The Police on their first world tour across 1979 and 1980. When was the restored and expanded edition released? The restored and expanded edition was released in 2022 by Mercury Studios. What songs are central to this set? Walking On The Moon, So Lonely, Can't Stand Losing You, Roxanne and Message In A Bottle anchor the early live portrait.