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Oct 17, 1999
Interview: THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (1999)

Sting, 47, moves in some interesting directions on his latest album, 'Brand New Day'. He dabbles in French rap, Algerian chant, and country and western, and on the song 'Tomorrow We'll See' assumes the persona of a Brazilian transvestite prostitute. While impressive, these things pale in comparison to the details of his real life. Since making his debut with the Police, former schoolteacher Gordon Matthew Sumner has gone on to father four children, become an internationally renowned multimillionaire and an expert in tantric sex. We caught up with him at rehearsals for his forthcoming tour...

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Oct 17, 1999
Interview: THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE (1999)

Suiting himself: Sting finds happiness in his heart and his musical quest. Sting happily credits The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and onetime recording partner Miles Davis as some of his most enduring artistic influences. But his current role model may come as a surprise to most fans of the urbane English pop star and former leader of the reggae-rocking Police. "Tony Bennett is a friend of mine, and he just gets better every year," said Sting, an admirer of Bennett's jazzy singing and career longevity...

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Oct 13, 1999
Interview: SA CITY LIFE (1999)

Outside it's a miserably wet, late September afternoon. Inside Universal Music's London HQ, five minute walk from buzzing Piccadilly Circus, I'm warm, dry and the envy of every Sting fan on the planet. I'm so up close to Sting it hurts. And it's about to get better. The amateur photographer who elected to shoot me interviewing one of the planet's most famous rock stars is urging we move closer. I respond awkwardly, unfamiliar with this proximity of fame. Sting, however, remains rooted, breaking the ice with a crack about how he would have bathed had he known the interview was going to get this intimate.

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Oct 12, 1999
Interview: THE NEW YORK POST (1999)

'New Day' dawns: Sting has just finished practising his song an Englishman in New York and looks worn out. He sticks out a sweaty hand out to greet a visitor to the small Midtown studio and says, "Rehearsing is exhausting, and it's without reward. There's no feedback, just dead walls." Fame is exhausting, too...

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Oct 11, 1999
Interview: PÚBLICO (1999)

New songs on the charts, success, the media - none of that matters now to Gordon Sumner. In his isolated and quiet estate in Wiltshire, the 47 year-old ex-Police will rather dedicate to more important things in life: spirituality, the joy of living, growing old and death. His new album, 'Brand New Day', shows he has made peace with himself, his life and his career...

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Oct 01, 1999
Interview: DOMINICAL (1999)

Sting is back with a work full of good vibrations, an optimistic record devoted to love. Flashy? Not at all. His new sound is as refreshing as his message, that goes beyond concealed topics to get inside the mazy universe of feelings and affections. He does it in a very unembarrassed, wide and transcendent way, full of deep honesty and a big desire to explore diversity of sounds...

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Oct 01, 1999
Interview: LAS VEGAS WEEKLY (1999)

Sweet sting of success - Sting has been called a lot of things over the years, but nice hasn't been one of them, until now. Upon turning 16, I decided to become Sting. It didn't matter to me that the job was ably filled by former schoolteacher Gordon Sumner; the man simply had too many things that I wanted. Blonde hair, for one. The miner's glasses he wore in the inner sleeve photo of The Police's best-selling 'Synchronicity' LP. And I probably wouldn't have minded having a best-selling LP, when you get down to it. ..

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Oct 01, 1999
Interview: BEST (1999)

"I had thought of naming the album 'The Lovers' after 'Les Amants', as an homage to Jacques Brel." In the large west Parisian studio in which he is completing his album, (ultimately Brand New Day), Sting summits himself, Zen, to the professional task. Lucid and cultivated, he discusses, in short sentences, his musical choices, his engagements, his wants, dropping names of French artists and Latin terms... Later, he adds: "I'll be 50 in two and a half years. That's something I'll be quite 'proud' of:" He can be. Sting is engaging in a very "classy" second half-century...

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Oct 01, 1999
Interview: THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (1999)

Sting slips a bass guitar around his shoulders as he steps to the microphone on the stage of the Joint, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino's stylish rock club. Backed by a five-piece band, he begins singing 'A Thousand Years', a new millennium-minded love song filled with the graceful, introspective touches that have become his musical trademark. Sting's voice doesn't assert a lot of power - a point critics noted when he had difficulty reaching the back rows of a Washington theater in previews of a Broadway-bound production of '3 Penny Opera' a decade ago...

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Oct 01, 1999
Interview: BASSIST (1999)

Bass playing, Pastorius, and why he'll never reform The Police. You need to treasure the stars of this world. I realised this sitting in the pub one day, listening to a mate ranting on about the pitiful state of the current music scene. "Where is today's Jimi Hendrix?" he was saying. "Where are the Beatles equivalents? The Bob Dylans, Led Zeppelins, Brian Wilsons, and David Bowies of today? There's plenty of imitators, but where are the people who are forging ahead like they did? "In fact it's worse than that," he continued, between sups of his sixth pint of Guinness Extra Cold. "Nowadays when you look back at bands that were considered second division - y'know excellent bands, but not really what you'd call genius - and you look at them now, and they piss all over the so-called big stars of today. I mean, look at a band like The Police: where's their equivalent?

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