Sting- Fields of Gold 25th Anniversary
It’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first Sting solo best-of, Fields of Gold. In this In The Studio classic rock interview, Sting covers a lot of ground.
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The Police- Regatta de Blanc 40th Anniversary- Sting, Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock Interviews“Love can mend your life, but love can break your heart…”- “Message in a Bottle”, 1979 (Sting) “Outlandos d’Amour has a certain grotesque, naïve charm about it,” Sting offers in this interview about the second album by The Police, “but Regatta de Blanc is infinitely a better record.” Both the critics and the rock audience agreed, […]
The Police- Outlandos d’Amour- Sting, Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland
/in Classic Rock Interviews“Outlandos d’Amour has a certain grotesque, naive charm about it,” Sting confesses in this rockumentary about the Police debut,”but Regatta de Blanc was infinitely a much better record.” He was absolutely correct, of course, but it was due simply to his, Police founder/ drummer Stewart Copeland‘s, and guitarist Andy Summers‘ lack of experience […]
Sting- The Last Ship Fifth Anniversary- pt 2
/in Medium RareWhen sitting down to consider Sting‘s The Last Ship, either his album version released five years ago or the stage musical production which saw a limited run on Broadway in 2014, one must check your assumptions at the door. ” It was never my intention to write a rock musical,” Sting stated emphatically here In […]
Sting- The Last Ship Fifth Anniversary- pt 1
/in Medium RareHere In the Studio we were both honored and thrilled in Fall 2013 to be able to share Sting hosting a very personal discussion of his family as well as their cultural history, centered in the shipyard of the Northern England seaport city of Walls End/ Newcastle, where “your casket is sealed with a riveter’s gun…” […]
The Police- Synchronicity 35th Anniversary- Sting, Stewart Copeland
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsYou could debate whether the first four albums by the Anglo-American band The Police, starting with 1978’s Outlandos d’Amour, the UK breakthrough Regatta de Blanc, their 1980 worldwide hit Zenyatta Mondatta, and Ghost in the Machine were significant enough creatively and commercially to issue a warrant to book them into the Rock and Roll Hall […]
Police-Zenyatta Mondatta-Sting,Andy Summers,Stewart Copeland
/in Classic Rock InterviewsOn their first U.S.tour in early 1979 the three members of The Police, Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, & Sting arrived for their first interview at my Memphis radio studio… in a station wagon. Barely 15 months later they returned to take me to lunch, except this time they were in a limousine. It seems that […]
Sting- Message in a Bottle 1981
/in Live TracksThis solo performance by Sting (his first ever) of “Message in a Bottle” at the second Amnesty International fundraiser in London 1981 , known as “The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball”, is extremely rare …(more)
Paul McCartney- Here Today (for John Lennon)
/in Live TracksEvery year when December 8 rolls around it is a challenge as to how to observe the violent, senseless gun murder of John Lennon that day in 1980, to chronicle the worldwide psychic blow to a generation, while paying tribute to what he gave us as a lasting enduring legacy. This year Lennon’s mate-since-middleschool, Paul […]
King Crimson- In the Court…50th Anniversary- the late Greg Lake, Jon Anderson, Mike Rutherford
/in Medium RareIt is the Plymouth Rock of progressive rock, and a half century after King Crimson released what Bruce Eder on AllMusic.com maintains is “one of the most daring debut albums ever recorded by anybody…”, In the Court of the Crimson King never fails to startle and amaze. In 1969 Buzz Aldrin, among the first […]