Overview: 'Everyone Stares' is a first-person account of The Police's ascent from obscurity to worldwide fame as well as an astute and sometimes hilarious commentary on the pop culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Blu-ray Verdict: I've always been a sucker for all these "first-person accounts" of musicians within bands back from the day so having been sent this wondrous Blu-ray for review - from one of my favorite bands growing up - well, bring it on!

'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out' is a quite brilliant 99 minute cinematic venture where Stewart Copeland (for those not in the know, the drummer) brings a fresh, first-person perspective to all-things (in this filmed timeframe, of course) about his enormously successful band The Police.

Fans of the band know of the legendary battles the three band members endured throughout their career together, but this film shows just how magnificent, how easy-breezy and great it was before their success consumed them.

Shot in grainy 8mm film, the organic visuals complete the essence of this rock and roll time capsule, which features rare concert footage and behind-the-scenes glimpses of their rise to fame.

As a fan, let alone a casual bystander, watching this film in its early stages is like discovering unearthed music from your favorite artist for just watching Sting (in Texas in 1978 in their car) with his huge head phones on and yet attune to everything going on around him is one of the most blissful things I've cinematically witnessed in ages.

Watching it all unfold through the eye(s) of Copeland you feel as if you're absorbing the atmosphere as it progresses. Like when Copeland admits that being a three piece was helpful to them whilst touring America as they each got more room in the car!

In truth though, the film does move at a rather rapid pace as early on the band travel on yet another highway in search of the one to break them big in America and after asking for directions to a Best Western (hotel), seemingly in a blink of an eye (albeit a few years later), they are knee deep in fame and frolicking on the French Riviera!

But that's jumping to the end of this story way too soon for we get cute visual treats early on as they stop off at a record store in Phoenix, Arizona to sign copies of their new record.

Not the biggest turn out they would have, but chock full of young girls panting at the mere sight of these three young British boys and me thinks that's all they could have asked for!

Indeed, and in what could have so easily been a demonstrative Rise and Fall account of how creative differences tore apart a legendary band early on, 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out' is actually a heartwarming scrapbook of fond memories; reminding all of us of how good it once was for them back then.

Oh, and when Sting states that he blames all his problems on the man holding the camera, well, you just know there's a hint of truth in there somewhere!

Culled from over 50 hours of Super 8 movies he shot during the acclaimed trio's heyday, Copeland also narrates at his own mid-tempo, Lou Reed-esque pace - which, monotone as it clearly is still seems to work just fine here.

Now available for the first time on Blu-ray, 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out' is, without a shadow of a doubt, a shining video example of days gone by where the footage (thankfully) is left to speak for itself.

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