Sting and his cohorts in the Police - Andy Summers on guitar and Stewart Copeland on drums - made their debut as a trio on August 18, 1977. The gig was at Rebecca’s Birmingham in England. The trio was on the cusp of a record deal that would allow them to record their debut album, “Outlandos D’Amour,” and their first hit song, “Roxanne.” The band had been playing a four-piece, with Henry Padovani as an additional guitar. He played on their first single, "Fall Out," which was recorded that February. The sound of the early Police, which was more punk influenced, would evolve as Sting became the band's chief songwriter (the group's initial songs had been penned by Copeland). The band would go on to be one of the biggest of the late 1970s and early 1980s with such hits as "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" and "Every Breath You Take." Their life as a band would be marked by continuous infighting; the group's last album would come out in 1983 and they would officially break up in 1986.