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Rock and Roll...Of Corse
Police founding member and all-round guitar hero Henry Padovani tells his incredible story.
Ever wonder what it would have been like to be in London right as the punk revolution broke in 1977? Or to play with The Police alongside Sting? Well, you can find out at a special one-off screening of Rock and Roll...Of Corse followed by a Q&A with musician Henry Padovani and director Lionel Guedj.
Arriving in London from Corsica at the age of twenty four in December 1976, Henry Padovani planned to stay for only a few days - but he was destined to never leave.
A mere month after arriving in London, Padovani had become immersed in the burgeoning punk scene. After meeting Stewart Copeland at the infamous Roxy Club, he was quickly invited to join The Police. With Padovani on guitar, the band, including Copeland and Sting, soon recorded their first single, Fall Out/Nothing Achieving.
Padovani left the band shortly after Andy Summers' arrival, but he took the split in his stride, forming the Flying Padovani's with Chris Musto and Paul Slack, and going on to play with the likes of Pete Townsend, Kim Wilde, The Jam and The Clash.
Distancing himself from the spotlight, Padovani focused his life instead on human values. To the big names of rock, Padovani was not simply a musical partner, he was a friend; the kind who stocked Sting's fridge when The Police were still obscure and broke.
Rock'n'Roll...Of Corse follows Padovani from his youth in Corsica to concerts in the historic punk/rock clubs of London, to thirty years after the break-up of The Police's original line-up, when Padovani joins Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers on the stage of the Stade de France, to play in front of a crowd of 80,000 people.
Henry Padovani shared his life with those who wrote the history of rock and this is his story. Featuring Sting, Kim Wilde, Topper Headon, Glen Matlock, Manu Katche and many more, this is a must-see for music lovers.
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Published Thursday, 12 November 2009
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