box set Message in a Box

Following the failed effort to record a new studio album, the Police effectively disbanded. In the liner notes to the Police’s box set Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings (1993), Summers explains: “The attempt to record a new album was doomed from the outset. The night before we went into the studio Stewart broke his collarbone falling off a horse and that meant we lost our last chance of recovering some rapport just by jamming together. Anyway, it was clear Sting had no real intention of writing any new songs for the Police. It was an empty exercise.”