 The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.Emerging in the British new wave scene, they played a style of rock influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz.Considered one of the leaders of the Second British Invasion of the U.S., in 1983 "Rolling Stone" labelled them "the first British New Wave act to break through in America on a grand scale, and possibly the biggest band in the world."