Will Police’s Grammy night reunion last?

As it turns out, breaking up isn’t hard to do. It’s the reuniting that’s the tricky bit. Still it seems that more old acts are getting back together than there are new ones forming. Why? Financial rewards, of course! When they say, “the timing is just right,” it really means the money is just right. “It’s all about the rock & roll” = money. “We want to introduce the band to a new generation of fans” = money. “VH1 approached us” = money, and not even a lot of it.

The Police reunion is different. When the Police open the 49th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday on CBS, they’re doing it for you: The fan. They’re doing it for the sole purpose of making it OK for you to like Sting again. Face it, recording adult contemporary hits in his Tuscan villa, constantly saving rainforests and droning on about his many consecutive hours of tantric sex, somewhere along the line Sting became too pretentious to be cool.

But the long nightmare of your shame and Sting’s mediocrity will come to an end Sunday. Erase the mental picture of his “Dune” codpiece. From now on, there’s only one thing you have to remember: “ROXANNE!”