QUERETARO, QRO. El sonido emitido por un fagot en su registro Mas alto la noche del 29 de mayo de 1913 en el teatro Campos Elíseos de Paris, se convirtió en el primer detonante del singular zafarrancho que se desató entre los defensores...

Byline: MATTHEW JUKES Over the next six weeks we are going back to basics - a mini wine school, if you like, where the homework is as enjoyable as you could imagine. I have lined up six of the most famous...

Call the Police exploitative if you must, but Reggatta de Blanc's title at least shows that they can be funny as well—chilly players who are nevertheless capable of a warm, pleasurable outburst like "Roxanne." It's the old story—black music played by white faces for maximum profit—but there's a twist. Lots of Jamaicans live in Britain (another old story, colonialism), so the reggae these new-wavish enforcers have grafted onto their pop is nothing more ...

[The Police], for all their success on both sides of the Atlantic, seem a little pallid. Reggatta de Blanc … has its good moments, but it is too clearly programmed for success, lacking in spontaneity, with its nods to New Wave Energy, reggae rhythm and Dub echo. Sting has a distinctive voice, the lyrics are fashionable 'concerned' and some of it is very danceable, but the album misses the bite that would make its chart success seem more than a very clever calculation. (pp. 867-68)