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The Rock On The Tyne festival returned for the second time atGateshead Stadium in 1982. This took plae at the InternationalStadium on the 21st of July 1982 and it was headlined by The Policewhich were fronted by a local lad called Sting. The first festival,in 1981, saw the likes of Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, and localfavourites Lindisfarne. Now we had Lords Of The New Church, TheGang Of Four, The Beat, U2 (on the cusp of greatness) and ThePolice. As for The Police the pop-punk trio were approaching thepeak of their powers when tickets for the show went on sale - at aprincely £8 each. This was a time before Sting´s much publicisedflirtation with rain forest issues, before he left in exile forTuscany, before tantric sex, and before he amassed his vaunted£185m fortune. Newspaper reports from the time usually referred toSting - real name Gordon Sumner - as the "milkman´s son fromWallsend," and indeed the Chronicle secured a short interview withthe star´s father. For proud dad Ernie Sumner, who lived inTynemouth, and ran a dairy business, this was only the second timehe saw Sting and his group, The Police, in concert. There were alsoreports about other members of Sting´s family would be attendingthe show, including his two sisters and younger brother who was apartner in the family´s Wallsend-based Cleveland Dairy business. Inthe event, the show was something of a damp squib withdisappointing ticket sales and gloomy North East weather hamperingthe event. The relatively low attendance was put down to theregion´s young pop fans being hard-up at a time when unemploymentwas soaring, and the fact the Rolling Stones had played at StJames´ Park only a fortnight earlier, overshadowing The Police.Gateshead Stadium, at the time, had earned a reputation as a majorathletics venue, with sell-out meetings, thanks to the efforts ofBrendan Foster. But when The Police took to the stage on July 31,1982, there were just 12,000 to 15,000 fans in the arena whennearly twice as many had been expected. Nevertheless one reporterdeclared: "The sun, which can do so much to make an outdoor concerta success, hid behind the clouds, and the date wasn´t the hoped-forsell-out, but musically it was a triumph. The band was red hot onthe night. They played against a background of a grey Gatesheadskyline on a cool overcast evening, with the wind blowing theirhair around, but there was nothing dull or drab about their music.It sparkled." Sting himself started the show in a bad mood,swearing and announcing: "I hate Virgin Records. I hate the legalprocess. I hate the press." But he mellowed, later announcing:"Seven years ago I left this town, and said I would make it. It´snice to come back and make you part of that success." And hismilkman dad, Ernie, got a passing mention from the stage: "We usedto get up at 4am when there was nobody else about. I used toimagine what it would be like if a bomb dropped on Newcastle." WithThe Police supported by the up-and-coming U2, this was inretrospect one heck of a line-up for rock fans, and it´s a mysterywhy the Rock On The Tyne event wasn´t a sell-out. When they brokeup just two years later, The Police had become the biggest band inthe world, but they would never play in the region again -surprisingly giving it a wide berth when they reunited for amammoth world tour in 2007. Gateshead Stadium would go on to host aseries of successful high-profile concerts, with the likes of BryanAdams, Bon Jovi, Dire Straights and Tina Turner rocking out overthe next two decades. But surely, there would never be a better andbigger line-up at the venue than The Police and U2. There are alsobonus material from Beat Club in Germany

Track list:
1. Message In A Bottle
2. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
3. Walking On The Moon
4. Spirits In The Material World
5. Hungry For You
6. When The World Is Running Down
7. The Bed´s Too Big Without You
8. De do do do, De da da da
9. Demolition Man
10. Shadows In The Rain
11. Driven To Tears
12. Bring On The Night
13. One World (Not Three)
14. Invisible Sun-with Bono of U2
15. Roxanne
16. Don´t Stand So Close To Me
17. Can´t Stand Losing You
18. So Lonely
19. So Lonely-Beat Club 1978
20. Fall Out-Beat Club 1978
21. Born In The 50-Beat Club 1978'
22. Hole In My Life-Beat Club 1978
23. Peanuts-Beat Club 1978
24. Landlord-Beat Club 1978
25. Roxanne-Beat Club 1978
26. Next To You-Beat Club 1978
27. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da-Beat Club 1980

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