While studying in grammar school, Sting visited nightclubs that influenced his music later on. At the age of 10, he became increasingly obsessed with an antique Spanish guitar in his family home. Sting was born in Wallsend, Northumberland, England to a hairdresser and a milkman and engineer. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984, and launched a solo career in 1985. His unique musical style that mixes jazz, reggae, classical music, world-beat, new-age and rock has been loved by the whole world since his solo career started in 1985. Tickets cost $104 to $160 via is an artistic pseudonym given to Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, an English actor and musician. Saturday, February 25, at the Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach 30. The set lists for recent shows have shown off not only the new tracks but also old favorites such as "Message in a Bottle," "So Lonely," and "Every Breath You Take." Fans of the verbose will be happy to know he's been starting sets with the longest title on the new record, "Heading South on the Great North Road."Ĩ p.m. He's taking the songs on a tour that will come to the Fillmore this Saturday. But the main thing was, 'Hey, let's have some energy.' It's not a lute album," he told the Telegraph in a recent interview. If I've been making esoteric albums for the past ten years, then people expect that I'll do that again. There's some folk music, some thoughtful, quiet moments. "The thrust of it is rock 'n' roll, but all my DNA is in there. His solo career has proven no less academic, with lyrics that in earlier decades had listeners pulling out dictionaries and today doing Google searches.Īfter spending years creating a stage musical, making an album accompanied by a lute, and reinterpreting his pop songs into a classical symphony, Sting last year released his first rock album in 13 years, 57th & 9th. Sting always showed off his extensive vocabulary and even threw in Nabokov references. But though you could take the teacher out of the school, you couldn't take the school out of the teacher. By throwing reggae influences into mainstream rock 'n' roll, the band sounded unlike anything else that was selling millions of records at the time. Instead, listeners worldwide were able to enjoy the Police's trailblazing sound.
Paul's First School in Cramlington, Sting quit his day job before assigning too many 5,000-word essays. We're guessing he was not of the "less is more" variety. Before becoming one of the biggest rock stars of the '70s and '80s, Sting was a high-school teacher.
His love for loquaciousness makes you wonder what kind of English teacher he might have been.
With his great New Wave band the Police, he burdened radio DJs with weighty names such as "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic," "Don't Stand So Close to Me," and, most brazen, "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around." His solo career, with hits such as "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" and "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You," showed no more appreciation for brevity. For a man who shortened his stage name to Sting, Gordon Sumner sure does seem to have a thing for wordy song titles.
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