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Sep 01, 2006
FOX 411
Sting loves to pick at strings. Everyone remembers him from Police videos playing his favorite instrument, the upright bass. It's the sound that gave the Police songs their timeless originality. But last year, Sting decided to try a new stringed instrument - the lute. You don't hear a lot of lutes on pop records. You hear mandolins, but no lutes. They are usually left to classical musicians with a lot of training. You know that wouldn't stop Sting. The result is a new album that drops next month, called 'Songs from the Labyrinth', for which Sting has used the songs of 16th century composer John Dowland for his foundation...
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Aug 05, 2006
THE INDEPENDENT
She's famous as an actor, a producer, an eco warrior, amother and, of course, as Mrs Sting. But who is the real Trudie Styler? Liz Hoggard finds out. Trudie Styler has a bit of a diva reputation. As the trophy wife of Sting, she has homes in Tuscany, New York, Los Angeles, London and Wiltshire. Her close friends include Elton John, Bill Clinton and Madonna (she officially introduced Guy to Madonna). For Christmas 2003, Mohammed Al-Fayed even opened Harrods early so Trudie could do her Christmas shopping without being disturbed...
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Jul 01, 2006
THE SUNDAY EXPRESS
He's famous for tantric sex and befriending rainforest Indians. Now Sting is pursuing another unusual enthusiasm - releasing songs by a long-forgotten Elizabethan lute player whom he believes was England's first singer-songwriter. Sing is fascinated by John Dowland, a 16th century contemporary of Shakespeare, and is convinced he has a strong spiritual connection with the musician. Now the 54 year old rock start believes he can finally bring Dowland the acclaim he deserves - producing an album of his work which he describes as a "labour of love". The CD, 'Songs from the Labyrinth', is due out later this year and is Sting's tribute to the musician and composer he admits has been "gently haunting" him for more than two decades...
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Jun 12, 2006
THE INDEPENDENT
Sniggers were stifled when he accompanied his wife's yoga lecture plucking serenely on the sitar and his tantric sex sessions have become legendary. Now Sting has immersed himself in an even more unlikely passion - 16th century lute music. The former frontman of the Police has been a fan of the Elizabethan composer John Dowland since the early 1980s. When he was given a lute two years ago, his interest was rekindled and he began to learn Dowland's music. What started out as a private project has turned into an album to be released in October...
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Jun 09, 2006
THE TIMES
Sting has found a kindred spirit in a maudlin 400-year-old singer-songwriter, says Rick Jones. Two pop stars will collide across the centuries when Sting releases his CD of the songs of John Dowland, the famous Elizabethan lute-player and composer who died 380 years ago. Just like Sting, Dowland made albums - four of them to be precise, each containing 21 or 22 songs. Dowland, though, had little competition. The miraculously inventive First Book of Ayres was published in London in 1597. It soon sold out and further editions were issued in 1600, 1603, 1606 and 1613. The city had an insatiable appetite for Dowland and almost every household in the Jacobean capital must have owned a copy of the First Book...
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Apr 29, 2006
LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL
Sting says a new album may come of his current streamlined touring band, with two guitarists but no keyboards. "I'm interested in doing something a little more surprising," he says. Sting does not golf. "I feel it spoils a good walk, in my opinion," he says. And besides, "I can't see me in the clothes." Hence, the pop/rock icon had no personal insight into the value of the private golf lessons which Tiger Woods volunteers in auctions to benefit The Rainforest Foundation that Sting co-founded: "That's kind of priceless..."
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Feb 12, 2006
THE OBSERVER
"Sting says I shop for Britain. I don't I shop for Europe". Fuelled by yoga, meditation and broccoli, Trudie Styler busies herself these days producing films and organic olive oil. She talks control freakery, acting and puppy love with Geraldine Bedell. The rich are different. The first time I turn up to interview Trudie Styler, her dog is ill and she's too upset to speak to me. I trail back through the freezing rush hour muttering bitterly about how most people have to carry on even when their dogs are dying - but then I'm not a dog person...
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Sep 09, 2005
TATLER
Trudie, madly, deeply - Every little thing she does is magic - as a mother and a lover and an actress. The tabloids' holy grail is probably Trudie Styler's lost teenage-sex diaries, and she knows it. Sitting in her new London townhouse overlooking St James's Park, she recalls: 'I kept a diary of all the boys I was going out with and how far we went with each other. I had my own little code for what was going on so my mum wouldn't know.' She is talking after a light lunch on her terraced garden, where she and her husband, Sting, have been chatting with Mickey, their 21-year-old daughter, about their plans to go on a walking holiday in the Lake District. And frankness is often the key to Trudie and her family. 'Why should I want to be a gooseberry with you "two?' asks Mickey teasingly. Some 24 years after they first met, Sting and Trudie remain one of rock's most endearing and enduring couples, with a physical connection that is still charged...
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Sep 09, 2005
CANDIS
Sting - What's the old rocker up to now? It's not all rock'n'roll. Sting may be a bona fide rock star, but he's had to deal with his fair share of family strife. He tells Mark Anstead why chronicling his early years has been so therapeutic. There's something disconcertingly self-conscious about Sting. It's almost as if, despite years of dealing with the press, he still doesn't know what to do with himself if he's not on stage holding a guitar. He averts his gaze during interviews, making minimum eye contact. And he thinks very carefully about some of the questions being put to him...
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Aug 09, 2005
THE EVENING STANDARD
The last time I saw Trudie Styler in the flesh, she was front row at Versace in Milan, watching the likes of Gisele Bundchen and Carmen Kass sashay past in all their earlytwenties loveliness. She was seated next to her husband, Sting, and was holding on to him for dear life, as if he might be filled with helium and would, at a moment's loss of concentration on her part, float tantalisingly out of her grasp. She was like that too when I saw her on the telly at Live 8. There she was in a great big hat and floaty dress, clinging to her husband like a Russian vine, all simpering noises and ingratiating angles. Yeughh. I hate women like that. Stupid women, usually blonde, who are defined by their husbands; who are too terrified to ever let their man out of their sights...
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