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The Sting and I…We had already done multiple interviews when he was in The Police and now Sting had released three solo albums, including his solo debut,”The Dream of the Blue Turtles”, by the time we reconvened in 1991. Sting had lost both parents by then, the most recent his father, and was clearly wrestling with his star ascending amidst pain and personal loss.
“Outlandos d’Amour’ has a certain grotesque, naïve charm about it,” Sting offers in this interview about the second album by The Police, “but ‘Reggatta de Blanc’ is infinitely a better record.” Both the critics and the rock audience agreed, garnering two #1 hits in the UK with “Walking on the Moon” and “Message in a Bottle”, plus topping the album sales chart there with “Reggatta de Blanc”.
“Love At First Sting” by the Scorpions in March 1984 soared to # 6 on the Billboard album chart with triple platinum sales, while delivering a blitzkreig of rock anthems including “Rock You Like A Hurricane”, “Big City Nights”, and the signature power ballad “Still Loving You”. Scorpions lead singer Klaus Meine and guitarist Rudolph Schenker are my guesst In the Studio.
“Outlandos d’Amour’ has a certain grotesque, naive charm about it,” Sting confesses in my interview about the Police debut,”but ‘Regatta de Blanc’ was infinitely a much better record.” Police founding drummer Stewart Copeland, guitarist Andy Summers & Sting join Redbeard here In the Studio.
Arguably the finest, yet the final, fifth studio recording by the Anglo-American trio The Police, “Synchronicity” put the cuffs on an arresting recorded legacy left by the band…Cops of Rock Stewart Copeland and Sting open this Police inquiry with me In the Studio for the definitive classic rock interview regarding the making of “Synchronicity” four decades ago.
This 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)
It seems that stardom for The Police had occurred in the UK after the release of their second album, “Reggatta de Blanc” , but mainstream popularity in the U.S. still eluded them until October 1980’s “Zenyatta Mondatta”. My guests In the Studio are Police-men Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers.
“It was never my intention to write a rock musical,” Sting stated emphatically here In the Studio in part two of our conversation about his “The Last Ship”, “Theater is too small to really create the visceral energy of a rock’n’roll show, which is noisy and powerful. Theater is a smaller kind of music. And that’s what I wanted to make – a kind of old-fashioned musical, in a way, which harkens back to a different era.” Part 2.
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…” and retold as fable as the bold multi-dimensional album and 2014 Broadway musical “The Last Ship”. Listen here to Sting in part one of two of “The Last Ship”.
It is the fortieth anniversary of “Scarecrow”, John Mellencamp’s eighth (!) studio album and a major musical signpost for the entire Eighties decade. John Mellencamp joins me In the Studio the week of July 28 to honor the 5,000,000-seller “Scarecrow” on its fortieth anniversary.