The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta (A&M)

EARLIER THIS year the Police spent four months on a world tour unprecedented in scale and scope, a trek across the time zones which brought them into brief contact with high life, low life and half life, their every step dogged by a posse of journalists, photographers and film makers, all intent on freezing events for posterity while watching for any sign that this most pleasant of trios was about to grow fangs and start acting like the monsters that superstars so often become. They waited in vain.