as there are no POLICE news right now it's time to look back again


Paul Marko wrote a nice book about the history of The Roxy.
The book features some interview bits with Cherry Vanilla, Wayne (Jayne) County, Henry Padovani and Zecca Esquibel (Cherry's keyboard player in 1977) and some photos with Sting, Cherry and Henry

the best bit for me is some information by Zecca

you will probably know that the punks hated the POLICE for being phony
so the band is not featured on the Roxy LP which was released in 1977

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=447184

ironically The Police are represented on the cover !
in the middle of the photo that's not one person, but two!
Zecca is leaning to the right over his keyboard
the head which leans to the left belongs to Stewart who is working at his TAMA drumkit

Zecca thinks that one of the persons sitting on the right is Ian Copeland

there are a few ebay auctions for this LP right now


you can order the book here:

http://www.roxyclub77.co.uk/pages/book.htm

Dietmar