yeah indeed, interesting to watch.

He forgot his trousers for such a clever fellow.

No. He is still arrogant! Lol!

It isn't rare. He always gave them credit for their contributions. I've seen several interviews. At the end of the day, he wrote most of the song and all of the hit. That's not being mean. That's a fact.

Geordie boy called in to gosforth /toon f a pint o Guinness I recollect ..

@@guyinpajamapants6892 2 years later but seeing this comment is annoying. You don't know anything about him yet the best source material--Copeland and Summers--is right there and available. Copeland himself said Sting is the least arrogant person he knows. He's shy and self-deprecating, he's very serious about his music. That shyness comes off as arrogance but it's the opposite, he's just not that socially comfortable. But put an instrument in his hand and he lights up, as you saw in this video. Stop spreading the gossip lines man, it's lame. The truth is out there if you're not too lazy to pursue it.

Great point, so critical. I remember being 14 and responding more to "the sound" than the songs.

Yeah Sting and Copeland were both great but Andy Summers was the joining ring between them with his unique guitar techniques!

+Michelle Richardson Gotta love the passion. He loves the challenges of composing and I love that about him. It's nice to look at the old footage. It was interesting times during this interview. Sting was becoming more self contained and not willing to sacrifice his composition just for the sake of democracy. Can't blame him or the others for how they felt. Glad they lasted as long as they did.

I always thought Andy came up with msg in bottle guitar riff

Smokey Robinson has the same approach to the title first and writing around it to avoid getting stuck. I had to learn that one the hard way.

I agree100%

Agreed 100%

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Well to be fair Sting did not found the group, its not his group. Split royalties? He's not doing the others a favour :-) It's a group of equals but Sting was best placed to write the songs. What's interesting is whether Stewart was aware Sting would turn out to be such a great songwriter when he contacted him in 1977?

really i wouldnt have split royalties when he already made them rich

I remember when I was a teenager even back in the early 90s, I would have killed to have a 4 track tape recorder. But they were so expensive. All these toys he has in front of him were rock star expensive in the day. Now we can lay down 40 tracks on our iPhone with no problem.

Totally agree. Love 'em 😊

He's shy and introvert at heart, that much I can tell. Perhaps he need a drink to loosen up? Because I remember an interview after a dinner (following the Polar prize ceremony) where he seemed a bit tipsy and more happy and at ease than usual.

I think the video tape is sped up a bit so his voice sounds higher but it's not.

@@ralphfurley4217 As people get older their voice gets lower, its a natural process. If you have a recording of yourself speaking from five or ten years ago, have a listen, you will be surprised.

Sounds southern but he is a Geordie, but now sounds very posh.

He had the "famous chronic laryngitis" back then.

It is sped up.

I thought exactly the same. Trying to be a cockney geezer like jools here. Very weird. I guess as he has aged he has become more happy in his own skin

@@ashthebash66 Also the Copelands being behind the whole production process had an influence on the sound .....

Most British bands sang American,it sold better,only a few (pet shop boys) ect sang in their native British accents

He’s bipolar

Super talented players and accompanists, yes, but not pop songwriters. Especially compared to Sting. There was no reason to use the other songs cuz his were so much better so I don't see it as Sting being a jerk

I get your critique, but I've always thought the idea that Sting is "an arrogant jerk" was way overblown. Can he be a bit cocky? Yep...but unlike many cocky people, he can actually back it up. Besides, I find overly humble people to often be _more_ annoying than supremely self confident people. I think a huge part of why some people are turned off by Sting...comes purely down to the fact he's an absurdly lucky guy. I mean, he's uber creative and talented _and_ incredibly wealthy and famous _and_ absurdly good looking. That's kinda the perfect recipe to have people react in a jealous manner. Personally I hugely look up to Sting as a person and especially as an artist. His intermittent cockiness I think was merely the result of him being _self aware_ of his own talent and good fortune. But hey...I tend to like highly creative _and_ self-aware people. They're more interesting than most people.

Matt, unfortunately we were not able to hear much of the material written by Andy and Stewart, for that matter. You should check out Andy Summers' memoir "One Train Later". As an example, for the album "Ghost in the Machine", almost all of the songs in the middle were Sting's songs, despite material that was up for consideration from both Andy and Stewart. Andy managed to get "Omegaman" on the album and Miles Copeland wanted it to be the first hit single to be released but Sting adamantly refused. Sting also refused to sing on any of the other tracks presented when they were making the album. Critics considered many songs on Zenyatta and Ghost to be filler (much of that was written by Sting...I personally like a lot of those songs anyway, but it is still interesting to think about). I would have loved to have heard the other 'lost' songs from Andy and Stewart. I don't know if they ended up getting written. Point is, Sting is a super talented songwriter and people can make the argument that he is a better songwriter than Andy and Stewart, but, despite him being the main driver behind the songs of The Police, I think he got caught up in his own ego, ultimately leading to an implosion. Very interesting story.

Sting wrote the guitar parts and Andy just embellished them. A lot of the early songs were written before the Police formed anyway.

Yes, all the 'behind the music' stuff is intere(Sting).

"The saddest of all keys"

I reckon Sting was familiar with this piece as he liked his Jazz fusion. Based on shifting Minor 9 chords. kzfaq.infoUgkxJTXGIxMVkeeRnmcd5xQeoBp8TUEBGebd

Your...dot...dot...dot...”punctuation”...and...negativeity...are...so...annoying! 😆

He never did...you just bought into that myth.

@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457 you mean the one he created? 😂

@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457 Agreed. People prefer to believe in myths, than really get to know who people are.

avedic Agreed. Absolutely. Yes

👏👏👏 Yes!

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Actually 70 or 75%, there are songs written and composed by Stewart Copeland (fall out, no time this time, the other way of stopping, darkness, miss Gradenko) and Andy Summers (behind my camel, omegaman, someone to talk to, mother) and other songs written and composed by 2 or 3 of them like deatwish, written and composed by Sting, Copeland and Summers or Murder by Numbers, lyrics by Sting and music by Andy Summers

They are friends and Jools was on monserat and a part of the tour they did after in 1981/ 82

His accent is way less affected here. Good luck to him. He eventually shared credits with Andy and Stewart but the big money was already made.

that would be cocaine - this was most likely taped in the Bahamas , where the album was recorded (ala the video for 'Every little thing ..')

No. Montserrat island, at George Martin's AIR studios, where every major rock star recorded in the 80s. The studio staff had a nickname for Sting (well a second one, that is) : they called him Stink, because he used to jog in the mornings a few miles, then went directly to record without having a shower.

I stand corrected .

It's probably because he's being interviewed by an actual musician.

Sting was pretty coked up in these days between Ghost and Synchronicity and Air Studios Montserrat had runners who would go out and find anything the band wanted.

Some would disagree violently he's a good listener

He has no charisma or personality on tv full stop, he just speaks in a silly voice and it is assumed that passes for wit, character and great tv.

He dropped it in the late 70s

You can hear it here.

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To say the least. I wonder if Sting realizes how unbelievably _lucky_ he is. I mean...he's insanely creative and talented, _and_ absurdly wealthy, _and_ crazy famous, _and_ very intelligent(tested in the top 1% in his class), and if all that weren't enough...he's also annoyingly attractive, with seemingly no expiration date. And he can have 8 hour orgasms(more or less). I realize there's also struggle and pain and hard work...but shit, to say he lucked out in life would be an understatement.

avedic Stewart looks more happy to me...

And with his original nose.

Eliot Hollander I really agree with you about that

Ha Ha!!!

It is too bad as the original nose would have aged better.

When the band broke up he ran off with Andy’s nose.

andy perfected it

+Eli Friedmann Andy made it beautiful

Federico Lagge true. he did write almost all the songs. however he did not write all the guitar parts IN all the songs (or drum beats) and those are a big part of the band's sound.

Eli Friedmann If Sting wrote the song, Sting for sure is who wrote that riff... otherwise would be a Summers song or a Summers/Sting song...

great songwriter like B Joel and E John