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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 “The Soul Cages”, 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.
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 for “Zenyatta Mondatta”.
“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”.
“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 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”.
By the time October 1981 ‘s fourth Police album “Ghost in the Machine” was dispatched, the exposed roots and influences shown by the London-based trio founded by Yankee drummer Stewart Copeland, who had emerged from the dying embers of the Punk Rock scene there, were more Miles and Mingus than Johnny Rotten. “Ghost in the Machine” topped the UK sales chart, #2 on Billboard album chart, over three million copies sold in America alone, and Rolling Stone magazine ranking it at #322 on their Top 500 Albums of All Time list. Police commissioner Stewart Copeland and six-string sharpshooter Andy Summers are your personal Ghost…busters with me here In the Studio in my classic rock interview.
The reunited Police force took a massive Buenos Aires audience into musical custody one night in December 2007 performing this trick of sleight-of-heart with “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic”