After more than three decades of platinum-selling rock success, The Police are to play their last ever concert later this year in New York, the band announced Tuesday.
"We kicked off our very first American tour at (former New York club) CBGBs in 1978 and this summer, 30 years later, our journey will come full circle as we play our final show here in New York City," the band said in a statement.
Details of the gig were to be announced at a later date.
The British threesome, made up of Sting on vocals and bass, Andy Summers on guitar and Stewart Copeland on drums, stopped playing together in the mid-1980s due to tensions within the group, but never officially broke up.
The band returned to the stage in May last year for a world tour that took them across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
The group, inspired by a mixture of rock, pop and reggae, released five albums between 1977 and 1984, with classics such as "Roxanne," "Message in a Bottle" and "Every Breath You Take."
