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Jan 02, 1991
Interview: THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH (1991)

A time of healing - Sting's 'Soul Cages' confronts grief over his parents' deaths: Sting is the pop idol adults can admire. His infallible instinct for hooks made the Police one of the world's biggest bands, but his ventures into jazz-inflected rock on 'The Dream of the Blue Turtles', 'Bring on the Night' and 'Nothing Like the Sun' made him an acceptable figure even to the most recalcitrant members of a thirtysomething generation. He is an active and highly visible supporter of Amnesty International and the preservation of the Brazilian rain forest. Now 39, he is handsome, but no pretty boy, and his movie roles and his appearance on Broadway last year as Macheath in a production of Bertolt Brecht's 'Threepenny Opera' attest to a range of talents that is increasingly rare in what often seems the increasingly one-dimensional world of pop culture...

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Jan 02, 1991
Interview: THE NEW YORK TIMES (1991)

Sting's 'Soul Cages': "I don't think our modern myths and rituals are able to deal with death," said Sting the other day. "The modern way to deal with death is to try and ignore it, which is what I did." The 39-year-old pop star was reflecting on the death a year and a half ago of his father, a milkman who lived in the industrial north of England, and its powerful effect on his third solo album, 'The Soul Cages', which A&M Records will release next week...

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Jan 01, 1991
Interview: THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (1991)

A conversation with Sting. Sting's new album - his first in more than three years - is a sombre, intensely personal work that grew out of the British rock star's confusion and grief following the death of his father in late 1987. But Sting seemed unusually at ease on the eve of the album's release last week as he sat, surrounded by his family, in the living room of his spacious, two-story co-op apartment on Central Park West...

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Dec 02, 1990
Interview: CBS 60 MINUTES (1990)

Sting's song, 'Every Breath You Take', sold more than 15 million copies world-wide, and Sting's sales stand at more than 50 million albums. By any standard, he is a phenomenon. But we found him to be a lot more than just a singer-songwriter and rock superstar. This Sting was christened Gordon Sumner back in Newcastle, England, so who gave him the name Sting? When he was 18 years old playing in a local jazz band, the older guys in the band gave him the name. It had to do with his style...

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Nov 02, 1989
Interview: FAME (1989)

The Weill Thing: Sting puts the bite back on Broadway with Brecht and Weill's 'The Threepenny Opera'. "I want to talk about the core of the play," Sting says, narrowing his eyes and peering, un-rockstar-like, across the desk in his manager's office, surrounded by the framed platinum disks that attest to his triumph with the Police and, more recently, as a solo rocker. He's referring to Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's 'Threepenny Opera'...

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Nov 01, 1989
Interview: THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (1989)

Sting not stung by poor '3 Penny' reviews. I feel like I'm going inside to view the body... you know, like in a wake," Janis Margolin said, giggling nervously as she stood in line outside the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on 46th Street. The Long Island receptionist had been looking forward for weeks to seeing rock singer Sting make his Broadway debut in a new production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's biting musical '3 Penny Opera', but she and her three friends were now apprehensive...

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Nov 01, 1989
Interview: THE NEW YORK TIMES (1989)

A Macheath for the 90's? Seated in the first row of the orchestra at the National Theater in Washington, a few blocks from the White House, John Dexter, the Tony Award-winning director of 'M. Butterfly' and 'Equus', is rehearsing Sting, Maureen McGovern and other cast members in Act I, Scene 2 of '3 Penny Opera'. It is Thursday afternoon Sept. 28, two weeks since the show, in town for a pre-Broadway run, was blasted by the local critics, who belittled Sting's acting ability, said his singing voice was barely audible and described the production as murky, boring and poorly directed...

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Nov 01, 1989
Interview: THE DAILY MAIL (1989)

The Star who doesn't like the safe life. The knives were out and sharpened before Sting had even opened his mouth for his Broadway debut. This is a town where cynicism is a language as well as a way of life. How dare an English rock star - especially an English rock star from a defunct 80's band - trespass on their precious on their precious time, trying out a new, and possibly much-needed, career move...?

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Nov 01, 1989
Interview: ASSOCIATED PRESS (1989)

Sting makes his Broadway debut: The sound of classical music drifts from a large upstairs dressing room at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre one hour before an evening dress rehearsal. Gordon Matthew Sumner is playing Mozart. "I think it helps to concentrate on something else for a minute or two," says Sumner, better known as rock superstar Sting, as he gets up from the piano. "Otherwise, you end up worrying..."

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Nov 01, 1989
Interview: GQ (1989)

As the sexy, sinister Macheath in Broadway's 'The Threepenny Opera', Sting is taking the greatest gamble of his gaudy career. This is not his turf. We are strolling west on 46th Street on a midsummer day in midtown Manhattan, and even in tank top and cotton pants, even with a dashing moustache adorning his face, it is unmistakably Sting, a man who has spent the past decade as one of the most famous men in the world...

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