Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police

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Guitarist Andy Summers takes audiences behind the scenes of one of the biggest bands of the 80s with his documentary Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police. 

Based on the acclaimed memoir One Train Later by rock guitarist Andy Summers, Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police follows Summers’ journey from his early days in the psychedelic ‘60s music scene, when he played with The Animals, to chance encounters with drummer Stewart Copeland and bassist Sting, which led to the formation of a punk trio, The Police. During the band’s phenomenal rise and its dissolution at the height of their popularity in the mid-80s, Summers captured history with his candid photographs. Utilizing rare archival footage and insights from the guitarist’s side of the stage, Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police brings together past and present as the band members reunite, more than two decades later, for a global reunion tour in 2007.

Director Andy Grieve saw this film as more than just a documentary about the band. “At the core of it, this film is about second chances. We all hope for them, we wonder in the back of our minds, we feel anxiety about the possibility of it manifesting, etc. In Andy’s case, he gets to relive one of the highest points in his life, one that by any standards is surreal, and which was suddenly taken away some 30 years earlier….who doesn’t want to have a second chance at that?”