Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police

Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police

The rock guitarist's tale through his words and photos

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on November 2013

This candid and entertaining look at the rock group’s seven-year history, interspersed with footage from their 2007-08 reunion tour, is adapted from Andy Summers’s popular autobiography One Train Later. What makes it so much more personal than most rock docs is the inclusion of the guitarist’s own, most excellent still photography. Man has a second talent. Few talking heads, not even Sting or Stuart Copeland. Of note to us here in Tokyoland is a scene in which Summers is strolling past a tiny karaoke bar in Shinjuku’s Golden Gai district that’s belting out “Every Breath You Take.” He goes in…  (82 min)