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Sep 20, 2013
Interview: THE JOURNAL (2013)

Sting's new album and first stage musical turned his thoughts to Wallsend. David Whetstone caught up with him in New York. It seemed a long way to have come to meet a lad from Wallsend and I'm not just talking air miles. Peering down on Manhattan's road grid from a high-rise hotel room and listening to the sirens, Tyneside could have been light years away. But it is a small insight into the fabulously successful career of Sting that people can be whizzed from all corners to assist with his projects. I was here for my passing knowledge of the North East and because words like "hadaway" don't make me go "Eh?" I was here to ask questions about The Last Ship. This is Sting's current major enterprise which is due to hit the shops as a new album on Monday and Broadway next year as a musical play...

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Sep 20, 2013
Interview: THE SUN (2013)

It's the early Sixties and to a small boy born Gordon Sumner the giant ship at the end of Gerald Street, Wallsend, looms frighteningly large. The vessel is about five times as high as his home in the row of back-to-back terraced houses stretching down to the northern bank of the Tyne. But the boy, like the rest of his proud community, is dressed in his Sunday best the day the Queen Mother sweeps by in her black Rolls-Royce, flanked by outriders, to launch this huge testament to the hard graft of the Swan Hunter shipyard. "I was standing with my mum holding a Union Jack," he remembers today. "And the Queen Mother waved at me! I felt chosen." That boy grew up to be Sting, the singing superstar who came to recognition in the late Seventies with The Police and journeyed far from home to become An Englishman In New York...

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Sep 17, 2013
The Last Ship: Sting.com reports from Abbey Road… part 3

When we visited Abbey Road in January, Sting confirmed that he had written around thirty songs for The Last Ship project and was still writing. One of these new songs, entitled Ballad Of The Great Eastern, was being worked on at the Abbey Road sessions. The story is of Brunel’s flagship (which many considered to be cursed) and of two men lost during the building of the ship never to be seen again until the discovery of their bodies in a sealed compartment years later...

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Sep 14, 2013
Check out Sting's appearance on BBC One's "The One Show," which includes a live performance of "Practical Arrangement" from his new album, The Last Ship!


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Sep 12, 2013
Interview: THE GUARDIAN (2013)

He happily admits to being a pretentious yogic high-flyer who wound people up with talk of his tantric sex life. Now he's back with his first album in nearly a decade and a musical on Broadway. What a pretentious wanker I am!" shouts Sting loudly. We are on the French Riviera, sitting at a quiet table on the balcony of the house - now a hotel - where F Scott Fitzgerald wrote Tender is the Night, and I have just reminded Sting of a remark he made in 1987. Then a 36-year-old superstar promoting a new album, Nothing Like the Sun, he declared: "I don't want to be a pop star all my life. I'd quite like to be a balding, rotund, Jungian analyst between 40 and 50..."

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Sep 12, 2013
Interview: THE NEW YORK TIMES (2013)

Early in May, a few hundred people received hush-hush invitations to the Signature Theater in Midtown. They arrived for a staged reading, a spartan workshop production assembled in under 29 hours of rehearsal as a preview for potential backers and other interested parties. On a crowded stage, with scripts in hand, cast members played out a story set in an English town whose shipbuilding industry was in its last throes. The plot intertwines a love triangle, reckonings between fathers and sons and a labor uprising (workers seizing a factory to build a last ship before the factory shuts down) with crosscurrents of economics and faith. The songs bridge show tunes and British folk traditions. The presentation received a standing ovation, something that doesn't always happen at staged readings...

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Sep 05, 2013
The lyric video for Sting's latest single, "And Yet," from his new album The Last Ship is available now - check it out!

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Sep 04, 2013
Sting - The Last Ship, Listen to the Cherrytree Radio Special...

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Sep 04, 2013
Sting in Conversation with Anthony DeCurtis – October 30 at the 92Y in New York City!

On Wednesday, October 30 at 8PM/EST, Sting will discuss his new album, The Last Ship, and its inspirations with Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis at the 92Y in New York City! Sting recently told Rolling Stone of the album, "I wanted the music to reflect the traditional music of the northeast of England where I grew up, as well as tipping my hat to the great music of the theatrical tradition – Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Brecht and Weill." Tickets will be available for sale beginning September 10 at 9AM/EST. Additional details may be found at http://www.92y.org/tickets/production.aspx?pid=98540.

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Aug 25, 2013
Interview: VULTURE (2013)

A few years ago, Sting found himself in a position that was unique to his experience, though perhaps familiar to certain others: He had grown sick and tired of Sting. For three decades, Sting had been not just one of the world's most famous musicians but one of its preeminent musical confessors: a singer-songwriter who, through all of his incarnations - spiky white reggae man, stadium rock star, sleek fixture of adult­-contemporary radio - had kept the music coming by, he says, "scraping the barrel of my soul." The result was a prolific output: five LPs with the Police and a string of hit solo albums, a run that concluded in 2003 with his eighth solo release, Sacred Love. Then, abruptly, the songs stopped. Sting has released three albums in the years since, all on the classical label Deutsche Grammophon; none were pop records, per se, and none included new songs ­written by Sting. Eventually, he realized he was blocked...

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