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Lynn Goldsmith\/Corbis\/VCG via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While it’s true that all three members of The Police<\/strong> were consummate musicians, and that the band’s songwriting talent was undeniable, guitarist Andy Summers<\/strong> admits there was another reason for their success.<\/p>\n

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“We were cute guys. We were nice-looking guys,” he tells\u00a0Vulture<\/em><\/a> <\/em>of himself and bandmates Sting <\/strong>and Stewart Copeland<\/strong>. “Everybody went mad because we were completely sellable as a pop unit. If the three of us were together and we turned up anywhere, a huge crowd would appear.”<\/p>\n

“We weren\u2019t exactly a boy band, but we had tremendous adulation and appealed to the female section of the audience, to put it politely,” he adds. “They wanted to be with us, talk to us, and give us their money.”<\/p>\n

Summers, who will launch a solo U.S. tour June 5, is also happy to take the credit for the success of the band’s biggest hit, “Every Breath You Take,” even though he didn’t technically write it.<\/p>\n

According to Summers, the song’s parent album, Synchronicity<\/em>, “went straight to #1 … because I wrote the guitar line for ‘Every Breath You Take,’ which transformed it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

As Summers tells it, Sting and Copeland were “arguing for weeks” about how the song should sound.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Finally … Sting said, ‘Go on, go in there and make it your own,'” he recalls. “I went in and the famous guitar line came to me very quickly. … When I finished\u00a0the guitar line all in one go, they all stood up and cheered. It sealed it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI recently saw that it hit two billion streams on Spotify,\u201d he adds. “I was just about to write to the accountant in London and go, \u2018Should we talk about this?\u2019 Because even if it\u2019s half a dime for every play, it\u2019s got to be a lot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

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