For the 19th-century baseball player, see Andy Sommers.
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Andy Summers
Summers performing in 2023
Background information
Birth name
Andrew James Summers
Born
(1942-12-31) 31 December 1942 (age 81) Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England
Origin
Bournemouth, Hampshire, England
Genres
Rock
pop
jazz
jazz fusion
new wave
new-age
avant-garde
Occupation(s)
Guitarist
Years active
1959–present
Labels
A&M
Private Music
RCA Victor
Formerly of
The Police
Dantalian's Chariot
Soft Machine
Eric Burdon and The Animals
Website
andysummers.com
Musical artist
Andrew James Summers (born 31 December 1942) is an English guitarist best known as a member of the rock band the Police. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a band member in 2003.[1] Summers has recorded solo albums, collaborated with other musicians, composed film scores, written fiction, and exhibited his photography in galleries.
^Savage, Mark (30 January 2007). "The arresting case of The Police". BBC News. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
"AndySummers Discography". andysummers.com. Retrieved 9 August 2016. Summers, Andy (1983). Throb. William Morrow. ISBN 0-688-02339-8. Summers, Andy (2004)...
Copeland. The band's fourth member was guitarist AndySummers. A decade older than Sting and Copeland, Summers was a music industry veteran who had played...
guitarists AndySummers and Robert Fripp. It is the pair's first of two album collaborations and it consists of 13 instrumental tracks. Summers and Fripp...
friend AndySummers of The Police. On I Advance Masked, Fripp and Summers played all the instruments. Bewitched was dominated more by Summers, who produced...
guitarist Sting and guitarist Henry Padovani (who was soon replaced by AndySummers), and they became one of the top bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s...
Sarah Hope Summers (June 7, 1902 – June 22, 1979)[citation needed] was an American character actress known for her work on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show...
Talk To," was written by guitarist AndySummers. Sting refused to provide vocals, leaving Summers to sing. Summers expressed disappointment at this, saying...
a synthesizer, that album. — Sting, Synchronicity Tour Program, 1983 AndySummers' presence on the studio track is considerably less pronounced than on...
Charming Snakes is an album by the English musician AndySummers. It was released in 1990. Summers supported the album by opening the 1991 Montreal International...
member of the band from January 1977 to August 1977 and was replaced by AndySummers, who had originally been part of the band as a second guitarist. Following...
Daydream", was a composition cowritten by AndySummers and Sting. As Sting remembers, "It's a set of chords Andy came up with and I wrote some lyrics to...
The band has undergone many line-up changes, with musicians such as AndySummers, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, John Marshall, Karl Jenkins, Roy Babbington...
styles and arrangements, such as reggae. While recording, guitarist AndySummers came up with a guitar part inspired by Béla Bartók that would later become...
Golden Wire is the third solo album by the English musician AndySummers, released in 1989. Summers promoted the album with a North American tour. "A Piece...
occasional lead vocals. In July 1968, AndySummers (later the guitarist for the Police) replaced Briggs. Both Money and Summers were formerly of British psychedelic...
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