Sting on his roots, Brexit and being inspired by Paris's red light district

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    The British rock star Sting tells us more about his new album, "My Songs", in which he revisits his greatest hits. The singer with 17 Grammy Awards looks back on his successful career, from his beginnings with The Police to solo fame, and tells us how the city of Paris - in particular the red light district - inspired several tracks, including "Roxanne". A citizen of the world, Sting also shares his thoughts on Brexit and Donald Trump, admitting he's "a fan of neither".
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Комментарии • 185

  • @racing747
    @racing747 3 года назад +17

    This man just oozes nothing but tranquility & even more...class. Just a cool icon with a soothing intelligent voice to make one gravitate to. He's simply amazing

  • @vestspet4242
    @vestspet4242 5 лет назад +88

    At nearly seventy, this man is still so lovely to look at and listen to.

    • @kristinakrstanovic6797
      @kristinakrstanovic6797 3 года назад +2

      Well yes!

    • @mariannelaba1985
      @mariannelaba1985 3 года назад +1

      I love this man in particular and the UK music scene in general

    • @creselledean7670
      @creselledean7670 2 года назад +2

      @ vestspet Totally agree and he has such energy with it.

    • @lakep7798
      @lakep7798 2 года назад

      Yes indeed! He said himself…”I’m older…and like a fine wine…” Ok, so I took it out of context, but it still applies! 😊

  • @ashleyhaddad2392
    @ashleyhaddad2392 4 года назад +21

    He is full of art ❤️

  • @DanZB26
    @DanZB26 5 лет назад +27

    11:51 her face just said it ALL

  • @vestspet4242
    @vestspet4242 5 лет назад +63

    Being a fan of The Police and Sting for nearly 40 years has been so educational for me. Because of Sting, I learned about the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. I discovered Amnesty International and the political strife in Northern Ireland. He still amazes me that he can continue to rediscover himself .

    • @yuliawalker5622
      @yuliawalker5622 3 года назад +3

      Be your own man. Rediscover yourself. The info is out there. You don`t need anyone to push you in the right direction. Climate change has always been happening, from the beginning of time.

    • @kennethcrowther2277
      @kennethcrowther2277 2 года назад

      @@yuliawalker5622 thank you. Well said!

  • @PhantomPain74
    @PhantomPain74 5 лет назад +21

    STING ,
    THE ONE AND ONLY .

  • @MB-vu7ue
    @MB-vu7ue 2 года назад +3

    my grandad used to know him. they used to play guitar etc together when they were young with my grandads other brothers, one past away and things changed and my grandad decided to not go down the more successful route with music. but will always remember him as a good old friend.

  • @anndavis2920
    @anndavis2920 4 года назад +6

    i loved this interview. i love Sting & hearing him speak & sing & play an instrument is like Heaven to me. ty for this & i subbed 6-2-2020

  • @michaelthomas366
    @michaelthomas366 4 года назад +13

    Still cool after all these years.

  • @justatexasgirl5583
    @justatexasgirl5583 4 года назад +17

    His autobiography is awesome! Stop before you start..be still my beating heart 💓

    • @lakep7798
      @lakep7798 2 года назад

      Rushing off to get that autobiography NOW!

    • @justatexasgirl5583
      @justatexasgirl5583 2 года назад

      @@lakep7798 I don’t remember the name but I believe it is black and yellow and it has a picture of him as a boy.

    • @lakep7798
      @lakep7798 2 года назад

      @@justatexasgirl5583 Thanks, I appreciate that info because I got the wrong one, lol. Mine says “Upon Reflection.” I’ll look for the other one 😊.

  • @AndrewsOpinion15
    @AndrewsOpinion15 4 года назад +11

    HAPPY 68TH BIRTHDAY STING !!!

  • @gladec3896
    @gladec3896 4 года назад +10

    Love his work, good to see he has so much class, knew it, but a nice reminder

  • @johnmccann8319
    @johnmccann8319 3 года назад +7

    A truly AMAZING artist!

  • @tamarkvartskhava144
    @tamarkvartskhava144 4 года назад +5

    I always want to hear it 🤩❤️❤️❤️

  • @filomena9794
    @filomena9794 10 месяцев назад

    Happy Bristhday on 2 October you are awesome man 🌹 Thank you for songs I love it all.

  • @dawngittens7132
    @dawngittens7132 4 года назад +8

    I love this man

  • @ruthlessreid9172
    @ruthlessreid9172 2 года назад

    Just saw Sting in Atlantic City unreal show still going strong at 70.

  • @laika5757
    @laika5757 2 года назад

    2022 and still a huge Sting fan.
    🎼🎶🎶🎸

  • @emilydominko
    @emilydominko 4 года назад +7

    Sting is a legend!

  • @adrian_V99
    @adrian_V99 3 года назад +9

    The real existential issue in the UK is the economy and covid, of course. Quite right a large segment of the British population is not being listened to, hence Brexit. In particular, the elderly some of whom saw struggles no one there will now... World War II, food rationing until 1955, miners coughing their lungs out, shipbuilders with lung disease from welding, a poor health system , forced emigration to Canada and Australia in the 1950s, massive unemployment even in the 80s. Why take marching orders from Merkel and Brussels?

  • @francisbottrall6852
    @francisbottrall6852 2 года назад

    One of his best interviews

  • @tweetlebugzz
    @tweetlebugzz 3 года назад +12

    The interviewer looks truly misserable while she is being personally serinaded by Sting. What a waste

  • @mba321
    @mba321 Год назад +1

    My goal for age 70 is to be as cool, grounded, knowledgable and worldly as this man is at 70.

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth 4 года назад +3

    I love Sting and so many of his .. .and their, the Police's songs, but never went wild over Roxanne.

    • @majortom4543
      @majortom4543 3 года назад

      Thats because you are christian and are afraid of the thematic of the song.

    • @justgivemethetruth
      @justgivemethetruth 3 года назад +3

      @@majortom4543
      Tombo ... I am not a Christian. Thematic is an adjective by the way and you are trying to use it as a noun. Not really your day is it?

  • @ulla-karinandersson9551
    @ulla-karinandersson9551 3 года назад +1

    My love

  • @ulla-karinandersson9551
    @ulla-karinandersson9551 3 года назад

    My love❤

  • @haircafekevin
    @haircafekevin 2 года назад +1

    This guy was so cool as a villain in Dune.

  • @rolandrodriguez3854
    @rolandrodriguez3854 2 года назад +1

    He likes Cyrano de Bergerac! New found respect for this dude!

  • @jean-denismaltais5390
    @jean-denismaltais5390 4 года назад +8

    70 is the new 40

  • @no_prisoners6474
    @no_prisoners6474 3 года назад +2

    This man can get it 😩😩😩

    • @elleshaw9837
      @elleshaw9837 3 года назад +1

      I'm with you when you're Right!😉😁

    • @Auntkekebaby
      @Auntkekebaby 3 года назад +1

      Yup...STILL!! A that beard is hot, too.

  • @rain73ful
    @rain73ful Год назад +2

    He's very right about his children. If they're smart and well-educated, then they should be able to make their own way without their parents help.

  • @TheMartintinmar
    @TheMartintinmar 3 года назад +4

    Sting inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac! How smart is this guy! A la fin de l'envoi, il touche!

    • @donaldcook3112
      @donaldcook3112 3 года назад

      Interestingly Martin , Neil Diamond on his
      'Thank You Australia' concert in March '76 introduces one of his , then not long released , greatest song's , 'Longfellow Serenade' , cited his own fascination with the character of Cyrano de Bergerac
      as a (very) young fellow and just how it assimilated with his own thought's and vision's . . .

    • @hassenfuttingah2744
      @hassenfuttingah2744 3 года назад

      He should know, he was a teacher ,after all.

  • @jude999
    @jude999 4 года назад

    year?

  • @richardmadden2761
    @richardmadden2761 2 года назад

    Brilliant

  •  3 года назад

    🙏🏼

  • @colinwolf9730
    @colinwolf9730 4 года назад +6

    Listening to a rock star who flies around in a jet and using a studio that burns up energy discussing climate change is humerous. I love his music with and after the police, and he has his rights to his opinions, but sorry Sting.

    • @famednacclaimed5336
      @famednacclaimed5336 4 года назад +2

      Colin Wolf one person can’t change an entire system by living in a cave. Everyone in the world has to create a carbon footprint to make a living. Advocating for a change to the entire system is what he’s after, since that would actually make a difference

  • @afterlate8866
    @afterlate8866 5 лет назад +8

    Teaching is SO entertaining, Sting, that you left the job as soon as you could.

    • @LeeGee
      @LeeGee 3 года назад +1

      Entertainment vs gigging and making millions. So many bitter, jealous kids here

    • @thornbird6768
      @thornbird6768 Год назад

      Don't stand so close to me figures in his experience as a teacher 😮

    • @XXLaffinGravyXX
      @XXLaffinGravyXX 4 месяца назад +1

      Well he entertained me and my classmates ...Neil wrightson or Michael Sancaster taking the register to the office...listening to him play guitar and being taken to Newcastle Uni on a trip...and him making Mark and Stephen Wade massive conical crowns for the Nativity play . So yerh he entertained and never forgot us through out the years. Buying Kev new trainers and taking him for tea and actually giving him a decent meal that his family couldnt afford.

  • @stefan-anamericaninrussiaa6683
    @stefan-anamericaninrussiaa6683 3 года назад

    Eve Jackson is a delight..

  • @angieleemans8316
    @angieleemans8316 5 лет назад +1

    We love Sting xx we miss you too...Roxanne.....

    • @6thi874
      @6thi874 5 лет назад +2

      Angie D
      He’s not dead.

  • @andrenewcomb3708
    @andrenewcomb3708 3 года назад +1

    Rock Saint.

  • @eggandchipsman7373
    @eggandchipsman7373 5 лет назад +13

    did bono tell him what to say!

  • @user-jc4dk4ie6u
    @user-jc4dk4ie6u 3 года назад

    ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

  • @ImpartiallySpeaking
    @ImpartiallySpeaking Год назад

    So many of those early police songs aren’t police somgs at all but rather songs first written and recorded by Stings first band Last Exit

  • @hannesheinz720
    @hannesheinz720 4 года назад +9

    He needs no tattoos being cool.
    He is not cool but sovereign.

  • @JoeDoe2
    @JoeDoe2 3 года назад +2

    What is the name of that little guitar that's too big to be a ukulele? I've never seen one anywhere else, including music stores.

    • @paulf2898
      @paulf2898 3 года назад

      It's called a lute

    • @olafoehrl
      @olafoehrl 3 года назад

      @@paulf2898 No, its not ...

    • @thornbird6768
      @thornbird6768 Год назад

      Sitar ??

    • @randyjones280
      @randyjones280 5 месяцев назад

      Yes it is called a lute and that's from the old days and his is made by Martin

  • @cafinario
    @cafinario 4 года назад +6

    Yes Sting, we know that the hotel is expensive....

    • @aaronlennon3592
      @aaronlennon3592 4 года назад +1

      Hahahaha I know that feeling... xD bulls**t

  • @Makilock1
    @Makilock1 4 года назад +8

    Sting is a bottle of well-aged yumminess, I would still have his baby.

    • @Auntkekebaby
      @Auntkekebaby 3 года назад

      @fooloof NEVER about the money when it comes to Sting.

    • @staiditude
      @staiditude 2 года назад

      Ugh of course. Such a beautiful man.

  • @_John_Tyree_
    @_John_Tyree_ 5 лет назад +9

    8:45 👀 🤣🤣

  • @garydunn3037
    @garydunn3037 Год назад

    I think "Englishman in New York" was about Quentin Crisp if my memory serves me right.

  • @andrenewcomb3708
    @andrenewcomb3708 3 года назад +1

    Females don't seem to understand why boys/men love "love". Look at what they've accomplished loving "love". Music is love.

    • @LeeGee
      @LeeGee 3 года назад

      "All I have is my love of love, but love is not loving..."

  • @Wollaston123
    @Wollaston123 4 года назад +2

    Does this man even age

  • @WakaWaka2468
    @WakaWaka2468 4 года назад +1

    5:19 Englishman in New York

  • @Jacqueline.Soraya
    @Jacqueline.Soraya 4 года назад +1

    💫❤️💫🎶🙏🏼

  • @edpaterson3529
    @edpaterson3529 4 года назад +4

    6:34 Sting's sense of humour not quite finding its audience.

  • @merrilyg
    @merrilyg 4 года назад +4

    Beautiful. And the bit about ‘our climate problem won’t change until policy changes among major governments like the US and China’, is so true! Thank you.

  • @Elsinha147
    @Elsinha147 2 года назад

    Gosh...he is more handsome now 😍

  • @ancientfinn3738
    @ancientfinn3738 3 года назад +3

    Talented and confused, like most artists are

    • @frenchartantiquesparis424
      @frenchartantiquesparis424 3 года назад +5

      At what point do you think he is confused? He has more intelligence than 98 percent of the world's population.

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth 4 года назад +1

    Well, what Hotel are they in ??

  • @jsbersil
    @jsbersil 4 года назад +1

    goin down down down!!!!

  • @michellesamuels7558
    @michellesamuels7558 5 лет назад +3

    Lovely! British. Love Shaggy, and Sting. Lovely about the Englishman.

    • @LeeGee
      @LeeGee 3 года назад

      Shaggy in the same breath as Sting?

    • @michellesamuels7558
      @michellesamuels7558 3 года назад

      @@LeeGee Why not? Both great!

    • @dbg32
      @dbg32 3 года назад

      @@LeeGee Well they did do an album together. Not one of Sting’s shining moments though to be fair.

    • @johnmalone1713
      @johnmalone1713 3 года назад

      Shaggy shite 😂😂😂

    • @michellesamuels7558
      @michellesamuels7558 3 года назад

      @@johnmalone1713 No need to curse.

  • @frankieandzephyrb2979
    @frankieandzephyrb2979 3 года назад +8

    How strange how after having six kids Sting now finds it appropriate to be concerned with climate change.

  • @fosterch11
    @fosterch11 3 года назад

    An indirect Lacan reference?

  • @SerG-ez2po
    @SerG-ez2po 2 года назад

    That ''the Office'' vibes...

  • @rommelbhaskar
    @rommelbhaskar 5 лет назад

    Which Hotel is this in?

    • @thewomble1509
      @thewomble1509 4 года назад +1

      Some illuminati /luciferian palatial gaff.

    • @rommelbhaskar
      @rommelbhaskar 4 года назад +1

      @@thewomble1509 sarcasm was not exactly what I was looking for, please find another customer

    • @thewomble1509
      @thewomble1509 4 года назад

      @@rommelbhaskar That wasn't sarcasm. Go and research the music /entertainment industry you snarky get.

    • @rommelbhaskar
      @rommelbhaskar 4 года назад +1

      @@thewomble1509 if it wasn't, tell me the name of the hotel lol. I can research and do things all day long don't need your sweet talking 😂😂

    • @LeeGee
      @LeeGee 3 года назад

      lol

  • @frenchartantiquesparis424
    @frenchartantiquesparis424 3 года назад +5

    The interviewer lady is so boring.... no personality, poor Sting.

  • @rafaelzengo5534
    @rafaelzengo5534 4 года назад +1

    That's one problem of having so much money. You can't carry it with you, and you don't know where or who it should go to

    • @mauricioamaro5698
      @mauricioamaro5698 3 года назад

      Sure but better having too much is still better than too little and people have different views about passing it on.

    • @rafaelzengo5534
      @rafaelzengo5534 3 года назад +1

      @@mauricioamaro5698 not too much, not too little. Extremes feed one another.

    • @mauricioamaro5698
      @mauricioamaro5698 3 года назад

      I agree but what happens when you become very successful? It’s a natural consequence, Some people can’t deal with fame and money well and some can. The Clash did not, the Police did. Btw, I prefer the Clash as a rock n roll band...

    • @rafaelzengo5534
      @rafaelzengo5534 3 года назад

      @@mauricioamaro5698 Alright mate, fair enough

  • @paulgreen9618
    @paulgreen9618 3 года назад +3

    "Large states....the E.U."
    And therin lies the truth...hence Brexit.

  • @gregscott2005
    @gregscott2005 3 года назад +1

    Citizen of the world. There’s the rub.

  • @markscountlessbarks
    @markscountlessbarks 3 года назад +2

    Silliest shoes EVER!

  • @hardlines2635
    @hardlines2635 3 года назад +6

    I like Sting, always have, but to talk about climate change and then go on a world tour seems a bit of a contradiction. Image the pollution caused , not just be his crew but the millions of people travelling to his shows.

    • @dadduorp
      @dadduorp 8 месяцев назад

      WTF do you want him to do? Walk or swim around the world with just his bass strapped on?
      Influence and the power to change things requires money.

  • @briancornish1296
    @briancornish1296 2 года назад +3

    Has he taken the "jab"?

    • @thinkwholistic267
      @thinkwholistic267 27 дней назад

      I was going to go to one of his concerts until I found out he was requiring people to be jabbed. I was shocked since he professes to be such a health nut, and very disappointed. Needless to say, I didn’t go.

  • @chrima777
    @chrima777 6 месяцев назад

    Noone noticed the dinghy shoes .....? ;)🤔🤗

  • @ivanaf8790
    @ivanaf8790 3 года назад

    ¡Qué puto crack eres Sting 🙌🙌🙌🙌!

  • @maxovedo473
    @maxovedo473 2 года назад

    Sting is the real englishman i respect 100%. Unfortunately there are few right now,

  • @downswingplayer9712
    @downswingplayer9712 5 лет назад +12

    What will they call sting when he dies?
    stung.

  • @timalexwar
    @timalexwar 5 лет назад +7

    avoiding eye contact...

    • @justatexasgirl5583
      @justatexasgirl5583 4 года назад +5

      Tim Warner He, as you can see, can recall even the date and year he wrote his songs. He’s recalling that as he talks about his history.

    • @mukhtarbahar5741
      @mukhtarbahar5741 3 года назад +1

      عبر.

  • @kennethcrowther2277
    @kennethcrowther2277 2 года назад +3

    Yep. Great artist, but he's drinking the cool aide in order to stay cool, like most celebrities unfortunately. Just a fact.

  • @thomasaitken6472
    @thomasaitken6472 4 года назад +21

    Love sting music but for him to say we're leaving EU for no other reason than a colour of a passport
    Is stupidity . He has no idea why or what reason people voted for britians exit from the EU

    • @stephenkelly4346
      @stephenkelly4346 4 года назад +12

      Yep, had a moment to myself then when he said that, and concluded that he has no idea about everyday British life

    • @LeathanL
      @LeathanL 4 года назад +3

      Musical genius, political imbecile.

    • @admiralackbar9307
      @admiralackbar9307 4 года назад +8

      Sting doesn't live in the real world like us

    • @thomasaitken6472
      @thomasaitken6472 4 года назад +1

      @@admiralackbar9307 no out of touch
      And he has no idea what a pint of milk cost or cheapest place to buy it . When last time we seen sting in farmfoods lol 😂😂😂

    • @youngsalmon5188
      @youngsalmon5188 3 года назад

      He has more idea about life than the morons who voted leave to destroy their economy, their livelihoods and the Union all because through ignorance they were conned by people who only cared about avoiding tax on their offshore holdings. Sad and you still won’t admit it through your foolish pride.

  • @Bikewithlove
    @Bikewithlove 4 года назад +3

    Sting’s out of touch. He’s been too long caught up in the kind of dilemma that Steve Martin illustrated in “The Jerk.” Namely; ‘cat juggling.’

  • @sandrabecht4489
    @sandrabecht4489 3 года назад +7

    He doesn‘t know, that the climate has been changing since million years

  • @hugo2216
    @hugo2216 3 месяца назад +1

    10.30 he is so out of touch of the reality of people loosing their culture and more in UK and putting it down to a passport colour is just so sappy and snobby

  • @annieb5647
    @annieb5647 3 года назад +3

    So, Sting is ok with collectivism.

    • @LeeGee
      @LeeGee 3 года назад +2

      Not everyone is American

  • @johnheath970
    @johnheath970 2 года назад +1

    China and India.

  • @svetlanakosigina2655
    @svetlanakosigina2655 Год назад

    Is she British ?

  • @danielbytheway2216
    @danielbytheway2216 3 месяца назад +2

    Climate Change hahahahahahaha. Pollution is just not sexy anymore.

  • @kennethcrowther2277
    @kennethcrowther2277 2 года назад +4

    I've been a fan, still like a lot of the work, but Sting check the real science out for God's sake! We need environmentalism, (the sane kind) but climate change? No. Bull shit. I guess the sad thing is, if you acknowledged that, you wouldn't have a following anymore. At least, it would be a lot smaller. But what do you really need these days?

  • @Ghastly_Grinner
    @Ghastly_Grinner 5 лет назад +3

    oh that sting meh

  • @adamwarlock5286
    @adamwarlock5286 4 года назад +4

    Oh good if we pay more tax the weather will get better.

  • @Bothtapes
    @Bothtapes 4 года назад +7

    What a very badly chosen interviewer... Is it just me, or do you understand a certain level of intelligence needs to be met a little closer than this?

    • @frenchartantiquesparis424
      @frenchartantiquesparis424 3 года назад

      Yes, I agree. Horrible choice, but there arent many English speaking journalists living in Paris.

  • @pumpdumpster
    @pumpdumpster 3 года назад

    Ahh nice, so it is possible to keep your sanity when you are rich and famous. Pity Sting belongs to a miority. Stay healthy, and protect yorself and your loved ones from Corona.

  • @BioDieselEstate
    @BioDieselEstate 3 года назад +2

    I want to state the terrible truth about that dress & those boots (cringe). I cannot be that Brutal, though 😈

  • @charmingferret5916
    @charmingferret5916 5 лет назад +6

    These popstar celebrities and the climate change agenda. At least he wasn't smoking to promote the tobacco industry.

    • @baantalingngam
      @baantalingngam 4 года назад +1

      Climate change 'agenda'? And you are a scientist, Ferret?

  • @jamesm.3967
    @jamesm.3967 4 года назад +1

    What's up with the stupid serenading guitar. Jeez.

  • @mirandawalsh1143
    @mirandawalsh1143 3 года назад +3

    If anyone cared as much about the environment, as Sting claims he does, why oh why would you have SIX children? Ye gods. Love the man's talent, but please his views on anything are ridiculous.

    • @aceofbejs
      @aceofbejs 3 года назад

      @@williamtaylor5193 begone Satan!

    • @raythomas7744
      @raythomas7744 2 года назад

      It seems the same with all my favorite artists these days.

  • @dalewalker7368
    @dalewalker7368 3 года назад +6

    February 2021....I wonder if you are still as supportive of the EU after the whole world has witnessed their bullying tactics, protectionism and total lack of democracy. How can an institution so fundamentally prehistoric contribute to the end of global warming???

  • @dennisljohnson3534
    @dennisljohnson3534 3 года назад +3

    Arrogant