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Oct 01, 1985
Interview: THE MIAMI HERALD (1985)

The band that Sting built revels in it's new-found fame. They hail from small, cramped clubs, the warming ovens of jazz's classic bebop era. They've learned musical craft from apprenticeships with masters such as Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, the New Orleans pianist Ellis Marsalis. They are part of what has been called the "Young Lions" movement in contemporary jazz...

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Sep 23, 1985
Interview: THE ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION (1985)

Sting: Intended or not, his moniker offers apt metaphor for the man who would be: king of pain and nearly all else he surveys. Sting. It's just a nickname. No more. No less. So don't read anything into it, says Gordon Matthew Sumner, who acquired his stage name eight years ago as a 25-year-old playing Dixieland jazz with a band of men old enough to be his father...

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Sep 01, 1985
Interview: THE DETROIT FREE PRESS (1985)

Sting shuns labels: 'I'm many things rolled into one'. He's been tagged a god, a melancholy artist and even a rock 'n' roll Renaissance man for his roles in music and film. One thing's for sure: Gordon Sumner - better known as pop star Sting - has plenty of things he wants to do and, despite his popularity, won't allow himself be pigeonholed...

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Sep 01, 1985
Interview: THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (1985)

Despite his success, Sting strives for normalcy. It is late June on the sun-soaked patio of Sting's favorite suite in his favorite hotel in West Hollywood, Calif. The rock and film star is insisting that the soft pop life is not for him, but he sure looks content. Sting, 33, has a charming, slightly self-deprecating and conspiratorial way of telling stories that makes everything he says seem like a revelation. The theme this morning is normalcy - or as normal as it gets for someone who is one of the hottest pop personalities in the world...

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Sep 01, 1985
Interview: THE WASHINGTON POST (1985)

It's Stingtime for the Chief of Police on screen and disc. He has struck out on his own, formed a new band, tried being a movie star. But through it all - in a video age when rock stars change their image with each new album - Sting hasn't given his slightly demonic, tortured-artist persona a holiday since he formed the Police eight years ago...

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Sep 01, 1985
Interview: ROLLING STONE (1985)

Sting feels the burn - Gordon Sumner exercises his prerogatives in music, film and fame: On a lovely April morning, weeks before the completion of his not-the-Police album, the summer premieres of his two feature films, the world tour with his new band and the birth of his fourth child - Sting, a young man with everything to live for dove ten fathoms in the benign Caribbean and ran out of air...

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Sep 01, 1985
Interview: RECORD (1985)

Sting discusses what's past, passing and to come... Among contemporary musicians, only David Bowie exceeds Sting in his quest for movie stardom, and in the number of film roles to his credit. Still it could be argued that Sting has been more of what professional athletic scouts call "an impact player" than any of his other celebrated contemporaries who've attempted the rock-to-film crossover (the jury's still out on Madonna, who on the basis of one film seems to have the star quality that's eluded other rock artists on the silver screen). In addition to a chilling performance as the Jekyll-Hyde rapist character in 'Brimstone and Treacle', Sting's chalked up a major credit as one of the leads in 'Dune', will soon be seen starring opposite Meryl Streep in the romantic drama 'Plenty', and will portray the fatally ambitious Dr. Frankenstein in 'The Bride', a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein...

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Sep 01, 1985
Interview: NEWSWEEK (1985)

Sting wings it on his own - The sexy ex-chief of the Police mounts a solo flight to multimedia stardom. "I don't want to become irrelevant. I don't want to be redundant, I fear that, and I think money and success can make you that way very easily, very simply, very quickly. And I want to sidestep all that..."

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Aug 01, 1985
Interview: MUSICIAN (1985)

Fear and loathing in the Caribbean: "The strangest thing happened today: I was out windsurfing on my board and suddenly the rudder was gone. It just snapped off for no apparent reason." Sting is lying face up on a pool table at Eddy Grant's Blue Wave Studio in Barbados. "I believe that everything happens for a purpose, so I asked myself why did this happen now? Then I realised the truth. I'd lost my sense of direction." He shields his eyes with his forearm and continues in a low voice. "Is the album any good? I don't know anymore. My voice, it's so weak. I was even tearful before. I just wanted to forget the band. I wanted to go home, crawl into bed, just forget the whole thing because I can't sing..."

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Jul 23, 1985
Interview: SPIN (1985)

Sting II - Sting has a new band and new dreams. In a Spin exclusive he reflects on where he's going and where he came from: 60° West Longitude, 16°45' North Latitude - "Captain sir, permission to break out the vodka and orange!" whoops the handsome blond helmsman as he hugs the ship's sleek steel wheel, an impish gust suddenly sending some briny spray into his smirking face. "And the gods have spoken!" he asserts, wiping the bracing water away. "Aw, yes, this certainly beats the coal fields of Newcastle...!"

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