Sting on How He Got His Nickname and Writing “Roxanne” (2016)

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Sting on How He Got His Nickname and Writing “Roxanne” (2016)

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Жыл бұрын

Sting shares the story behind the Police’s hit song, “Roxanne.”
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@davidhooper259 Жыл бұрын

“Sophisticated” is an understatement. Sting was the hit maker but Copeland and Sommers were next level jazz musicians playing pop music

@eily_b Жыл бұрын

Summers

@mykehyslop198 Жыл бұрын

Sting was ? He's not dead.

@davidhooper259 Жыл бұрын

@@mykehyslop198 past tense is what you walked away with? Ok….when was his last hit as a solo artist or as The Police bassist. Even if it was yesterday-past tense is appropriate

@sdafasdfasdfsda Жыл бұрын

@@davidhooper259 "Even if it was yesterday (comma), past tense is appropriate"

@JDAfrica Жыл бұрын

@@mykehyslop198 he’s one crazy night of tantric away though

@tcliff1 Жыл бұрын

Love that piano story 😂

@steveconn Жыл бұрын

That is funny.

@celsosouza6779 Жыл бұрын

Amazing story 🤭🤭🤭😁😁🤣

@da_great_mogul Жыл бұрын

I find it odd as it's overall in key with only one or two notes possibly out.

@SandraSchuster-ut2nk 5 ай бұрын

I had no idea how funny Sting is ...despite reading his book broken music ... what a gem of an interview- the gift of the police keeps on giving ... Stings bum sound intruiged me for years 😂😂❤it

@bradthurkle7217 5 ай бұрын

Same 🤣

@GratefulLed Жыл бұрын

I love how after the sound of Sting hitting the piano, you can hear him chuckle.

@thelegendaryklobb2879 Жыл бұрын

Always wondered about that chuckle, now that I know the whole story it's so much better. What a goof!

@QuicksilverSG Жыл бұрын

This has to be the most down-to-earth interview with Sting I've yet heard. Good job, Howard!

@neaituppi7306 Жыл бұрын

I think the one with Rick Beato was more so. Rick can actually talk music theory and recording with him.

@punns643 Жыл бұрын

Go see ricks

@PrinceBarin77 Жыл бұрын

Another vote for the interview with Rick.

@Yakkymania 11 ай бұрын

his Letterman interview from 1982 is pretty chill

@BCSExpress1 10 ай бұрын

Rick Beato did the best interview with Sting yet.

@spacecan1 5 ай бұрын

Sting is introverted and funny and I don't really think he takes himself too seriously, but he get's that rap that he does. He's an emotional artist, and obviously he takes the music seriously, which anyone has to do to be successful in their profession.

@ThaRuralJuror Жыл бұрын

The piano bit is so interesting... just a silly little thing they left on the record, but I remember hearing that as a kid and the strange chord, then the stately, sophisticated way that Sting laughs was so unique and mysterious to me. I didn't hear about the backstory until years later.

@the_jcbone Жыл бұрын

*BACK* story. I see what you did there. 🙂

@CelsoGattaz Жыл бұрын

I must have heard that piano 1000 times. Just now I know the story behind it. So cool!

@jtreut Жыл бұрын

Stern is a brilliant interviewer. He has authentic interest in the depth of his guests.

@wintergarden7539 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely remember hearing Roxanne on the radio in PA in 1979. It was soooo cool and funky. One of my friends was named Roxanne, so after that every time we saw her we would go "Roooooooxaaaaaane!"

@kenaune2807 Жыл бұрын

I was in a cover band in the 80's and I remember spending so much time trying to figure out that chord! Wish I had known...

@huero33 Жыл бұрын

I learned how he got his nickname. What is real name is. How he came up with the song Roxanne. Why he laughs at the beginning of Roxanne. All in one short great interview clip.

@Terp311 Жыл бұрын

Nickname- 0:45 Real name- 1:45 Roxanne- 3:02 Laugh- 4:58

@andybaldman Жыл бұрын

You should have known these already.

@helloDobson3259 Жыл бұрын

Respect - Sting so down to earth. Doesn't flinch at Howard's confidence testing....

@notintohandles Жыл бұрын

The usual excellence that I have come to expect from a Howard Stern interview.

@janetownley Жыл бұрын

Haha, good joke 😅

@bicyclist2 Жыл бұрын

I have loved Sting since the early 80's. I knew about how he got his name since the 90's. Great interview. Thanks.

@atravelerofbothtimespace4172 Жыл бұрын

He’s a phenomenal wrestler

@Me-qp8vz Жыл бұрын

Nah just a sook.

@angeladoll5444 Жыл бұрын

And he can still do a 5 minute side plank!

@atravelerofbothtimespace4172 Жыл бұрын

@@angeladoll5444 LOL !!!

@eleven4375 Жыл бұрын

One of the best Sting interviews I've ever seen.

@alukuhito Жыл бұрын

He generally doesn't do interviews, so there aren't exactly many to compare this to.

@bobwoods1302 Жыл бұрын

Stern used to make fun of celebrities back when the show was sort of funny.

@schrodingerscat8621 7 ай бұрын

I remember in the early 80s some girl that I liked in school wore a police T-shirt. My friends and I were all listening to early hip-hop and Motown stuff, so this band almost slipped by me. It was a very interesting time for music in general. Metal, the power ballad, beautiful love songs, and some fantastic Motown stuff. The 80s was just an amazing time for music!

@robfromvan 3 ай бұрын

I listened to early hip-hop too during the Breakdancing era; 83-84.

@Trainy2 Жыл бұрын

I've always wondered about that piano sound at the beginning of Roxanne

@Everettel Жыл бұрын

I have listened to Roxanne a million times, cool interview.

@anakina1 Жыл бұрын

I was impressed with the way Stern did the interview. Been a long time since I've seen him.

@ianbauer4703 Жыл бұрын

Greatest band of that New Wave era...or whatever it was called.

@jamescpotter Жыл бұрын

The best rock trio!

@scottmcclure4153 Жыл бұрын

We do have the winery dogs. New album today . It's there 3rd . Calling it 111. It's a great album. Check it out all over UT. The whole band

@larrydanadavid2435 Жыл бұрын

Cream, Nirvana and a personal favorite James Gang

@CorneiliusLibowitz Жыл бұрын

ZZ Top.

@adriantrusca1245 Жыл бұрын

Pop trio. Nothing rock about them. And they are nowhere near the best.

@joeblog2672 Жыл бұрын

Rush, Cream, ZZ Top all brilliant but are not as good as the Police!

@DoppelgangerShockwave Жыл бұрын

So that's where the brown note came from. Great playing on the piano, Sting. 😉🤣

@essbee2316 Жыл бұрын

I thought it was a… bum note! 😂

@perrindixon8482 Жыл бұрын

"Only things on the radio were Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits and Roxanne"... couple a good ol Geordie classics!

@MetaFootballTV Жыл бұрын

Scottish are the Straits, but anyway. I guess it's up to them to say whether they feel more Scottish of Geordie.

@sammaddison2085 Жыл бұрын

@@MetaFootballTV nah mark is from Newcastle

@MetaFootballTV Жыл бұрын

@@sammaddison2085 born in Scotland.

@TWayneD1020 Жыл бұрын

Woo oh, woo oh oh oh oh 🎶 !! The first time I heard The Police, I knew they were going to have a magnificent future !!! Thank you for the interview !!

@MatisseStLaurent Жыл бұрын

This interview is so great!

@treborretsnom6186 Жыл бұрын

Love beyond expression for the music

@gh-vi9tk 7 ай бұрын

My fave bassist Sting, along with Jack Bruce.

@imalwaysright Жыл бұрын

Very cool stories about the piano and how the song went “viral”. He looks so handsome.

@anilachar323 Жыл бұрын

Ah...Sting and The Police of the late 1970s and early 1980s, was the sound that so many of us grew up with in our college years. 'Sophisticated' is a fair term to define their music : the intense and taut percussions of Copeland, the classically trained Andy, and the jazz internship of Sting. Why would The Police not be one of the defining bands of the 1980s? Though I was a little disappointed when they broke up post Synchronicity, Sting, without missing a beat, started his solo career and kept the sentiments and nostalgia going on for decades thereafter...

@joeblog2672 Жыл бұрын

Oh, if they had only continued together. It should have been illegal for them to break up so early! Sting still could have had his brilliant solo career (just as Phil Collins did along side Genesis). Such a climactic conglomeration of exceptionally talented individuals coming together. Still an amazing 5 years that had a big impact on my musical appreciation.

@Labyrinth1010 Жыл бұрын

Wasn’t Andy trained in jazz (not classical)?

@anilachar323 Жыл бұрын

@@Labyrinth1010 As per the biography of The Police, a book that I had bought in the 1980s, he was trained as a classical guitarist, taught students, while being a sessions musician too. Till The Police happened. Post the breakup of the band, he indulged in his passion for photography and had had a few exhibitions, books, etc Sting played in jazz bands early on his career.

@DanielBoonelight Жыл бұрын

@@anilachar323 if you read summers' memoir, 'one train later' you will find that he was much more interested and involved mentally in jazz at the time than traditional classical guitar. he more grew up with the classical paradigm as a stepping stone, but sought and loved jazz.

@anilachar323 Жыл бұрын

@@DanielBoonelight Quite possible! - I must confess I haven't read the 'One Train Later', only having read about it in bits and trivia on Summers...

@timweaver7826 Жыл бұрын

What a great story. Wish I had kept all my albums.....especially theirs.

@d-mack7053 Жыл бұрын

Wow!!!!!!! I always thought that was the bass in the intro before the msong kicked in.

@ukanchumee3446 Жыл бұрын

The Police Cars would've made a great super group!

@NoNo-ks4gg Жыл бұрын

Wow! That was great info and I ain't even a Sting fan --- but I love Roxanne and respect his talent! Good job Howie . . . you didn't over talk him!

@williwombat1066 11 ай бұрын

Howard Stern is a superb interviewer.

@demonicsweaters Жыл бұрын

I've always wondered about that piano clam in the beginning, hahaha. Great stories!

@jeniferallan6693 Жыл бұрын

Wow. That took me back. I bought a 10inch version of that wonderful song way back in 78. ROXANNE!!!

@TalkingWithBob Жыл бұрын

Sting seems to be exactly rightly rated by most people

@markstevens1729 Жыл бұрын

KZfaq needs this.

@civlyzed Жыл бұрын

Well earned thumbs up, Bobs.

@davidsnyder2000 Жыл бұрын

Lots of good history and information 👍🙂

@tomlichnofsky.7048 Жыл бұрын

Legend!!! 😎👌👍🍁♈🍁

@rollomaughfling380 Жыл бұрын

Sting talking about sharing the airwaves with Dire Straits. Geordie Revolution!

@TheSateef Жыл бұрын

that's what i was thinking, probably a few Brian Johnson AC/DC songs on the radio at that time too

@denisefreitas6727 Жыл бұрын

He looks fantastic!

@EndoftheTownProductions Жыл бұрын

Howard interviewing Howard about Sting with Sting in the studio.

@neverhit17 Жыл бұрын

Howard is so great

@pamelabonaparte9383 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤

@DidactDude Жыл бұрын

Howard does the best interviews!

@eilishella 10 ай бұрын

Howard always talks more than his guests do.

@just-sayin67 10 ай бұрын

Great interview!

@JNC1973 Жыл бұрын

I can't say I ever noticed that sound of his butt hitting the keys after all the years I've heard this song before until just now. I have however heard his laugh at the beginning just not the keys being struck. Weird after all these years I now know what that laugh was all about. Just when you think there was no story behind it you find out otherwise because you decided to listen to a Howard Stern clip while browsing You Tube.

@marielaynufioconsuegra9410 Жыл бұрын

es una entrevista excelente y aportadora

@stevengrieco5269 Жыл бұрын

A TRUE Virtuoso 👍

@kathrynmoll86 Жыл бұрын

Sorry but Eddie Murphy singing in his cell in "48 Hours" always comes to my mind! I do love Sting!

@robfromvan 3 ай бұрын

Nick Nolte actually calls him the n-word after releasing him from jail, or was that 48 Hours 2?

@wyskass861 Жыл бұрын

A great advantage of only being publicly known by an unofficial nickname is the privacy it affords on public records and other lists where your name must appear.

@JamZorro Жыл бұрын

I liked The Police (band)... Always felt a sense of urgency in their music... (could be just me)

@srfoy6493 Жыл бұрын

Reading. "...sense of urgency..." , and that is the perfect description !

@devastaterx Жыл бұрын

Stern reminds me of the late, great Barbara Walters in the way he asks fascinating and personal questions that we all wanted to know but may not have known that we did until after they're asked.

@jamesheath7601 Жыл бұрын

The Police 🖤

@user-lz9ef9yy3g Жыл бұрын

what tools they were

@shoWbitz Жыл бұрын

Sting, the legendary pro wrestler, approves! 👍

@jldonnell1 Жыл бұрын

Indeed - it was called "New Wave".

@chrisgarcia9629 Жыл бұрын

$100 million in album sales…unimaginable 😮

@skipbadger Жыл бұрын

Not $100 million in album sales. 100 million albums sold! In dollars, that has to be somewhere around a billion. It's even MORE unimaginable to me. 🙂

@chrisgarcia9629 Жыл бұрын

@@skipbadger that’s what I meant, typed it incorrectly

@ENGlishJELLo-yk7up 4 ай бұрын

The Police were musically a mix of Punk Rock meets Reggae meets Jazz meets Pop

@Me-on1tq Жыл бұрын

Ily sting you the best

@vinzanity68 Жыл бұрын

Stern loves hearing himself more than his guests.

@mikekisonu6825 Жыл бұрын

My intro to The Police? Eddie Murphy belting out “Roxanne” while in jail in “Trading Places.” For the longest, I asked myself, “WTF was that song Eddie sang?,” til I ultimately found out it was The Police, and became a LIFELONG fan. 😍☺️

@dE3Lov Жыл бұрын

Can't believe I just now learned that weird piano chord and laugh was accidental.

@wbmarceloz 7 ай бұрын

More sophisticated indeed. Boss

@salvadornegrete1854 Жыл бұрын

I didn't know Tom Felton was a musician working for Sting. Well done!

@morningsidedriverock 9 ай бұрын

Holy shit. I always wondered where those notes from the piano came from.

@players7686 Жыл бұрын

Too me The Police were the best band of the 80's. Seen them playing in Winnipeg then seen them playing in Toronto on the Reunion Tour. So good!

@TomMarvan Жыл бұрын

4:45 Dire Straits alert.

@catmom1322 Жыл бұрын

I really didn't care for "Roxanne" at first. Love anything the Police does now.

@andrewgonzalez6208 Жыл бұрын

“Get me a beer, Gordy”

@ConglomerationCat Жыл бұрын

"Would you mind calling...me....Sting?"

@smalltownreviews Жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🍻🍻

@joncamp9126 Жыл бұрын

KLBJ actually, I remember those were my first memories

@Terp311 Жыл бұрын

You’re looking for 0:45-2:01

@neuvisean1739 Жыл бұрын

4:49 and Sting would later sing with them on 'Money for Nothing'

@GDuncan8002 4 ай бұрын

That ain't workin'

@alukuhito Жыл бұрын

I new the naming story, but not the piano chord one. That's cool.

@johnhedley831 Жыл бұрын

Micheal Caswell in the background. RIP Micheal

@privatepenguin3137 Жыл бұрын

Wow - this interview was from 2016. Had to be only months later that he died.

@DaveWatkinsMusic Жыл бұрын

Trev & Simon "STINGGGGGGGGGGGGG!"

@TMoody Жыл бұрын

The Police = best band in the history of rock n' roll.

@hollowpoint45acp Жыл бұрын

Ha, no

@QuicksilverSG Жыл бұрын

I think of them as The Beatles of the 80's. On that note, Andy filled the role of Ringo, Stewart was George, and Sting combined both John and Paul in one ego.

@pamr4040 Жыл бұрын

❤

@neaituppi7306 Жыл бұрын

The bathroom. Which is probably as big as a small town.

@donaldpriola1807 Жыл бұрын

"Phantom fascination for the seedy part of town..."

@HailAnts Жыл бұрын

I hope Howard asked him what he thought of Eddie Murphy's version of _Roxanne._

@nathueil1 Жыл бұрын

STANG

@wintergarden7539 Жыл бұрын

LOL. I call him that, too!!! Can't remember where I first heard it but it was so funny.

@unclebob7937 Жыл бұрын

STING! The STINGANATOR! making copies! STINGORINO!

@BEACHDUDE71 8 ай бұрын

I thought the piano part was on purpose 😂

@MarkThrive 7 ай бұрын

KLBJ ... AUSTIN ROCK!

@mikegrand4181 Жыл бұрын

Best cover of Roxanne?: Eddie Murphy in 48hrs.

@charlesallan6978 Жыл бұрын

He was caned so much in school that everyone called him Sting.

@jackotheclown89 Жыл бұрын

Sting is so great, music even comes from his arse..

@jamesheath7601 Жыл бұрын

🐝

@mrdeafa25 5 ай бұрын

I met Fish once and asked him how he got his nickname. That was a mistake.

@pjmichaelsrocksyou 7 ай бұрын

Freeborn Hall in UC Davis!

@schnarchei6572 Жыл бұрын

When "Sting" retires, is he going to be called "Stung"?

@Randy_in_Pittsburgh Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@davidcoen9021 6 ай бұрын

I am no fan of Howard Stern and his antics. Nevertheless, his voice sounds INCREDIBLE on this recording! I think that's a Neumann microphone he's using.....