Jan 09, 2002
Sting took part in a web-chat with fans on the AOL UK network on 21 January 2002. Here is the full transcript of the chat...
Dec 17, 2001
The live album Sting planned to release last month was to be unlike most other in-concert discs. ...All This Time' would be recorded at a private villa in Tuscany, Italy. A five-camera crew would capture the rehearsal period and show, and a simultaneous international webcast was announced. With his long-time band and several guest musicians, Sting would reconstruct arrangements of his best-known songs. The small audience would consist of 200 friends, family members and a few contest winners from around the world. He hoped the result would be a personal, intimate performance...
Nov 17, 2001
The thing about Sting - The singer talks about turning 50, tantric sex and his love for Trudie...
Nov 17, 2001
Sting's live album recording echoes U.S. tragedy. "Irony doesn't translate into print, so I'm never ironic on tape," says the rock star to the cassette recorder. Getting no response, he leans closer and shouts. "Ever...!"
Nov 17, 2001
Falling for her, lock stock and barrel: Trudie Styler - actress, producer and the very well-connected wife of Sting - is hard to resist, as a sceptical James Harding discovers...
Nov 17, 2001
Playing Anna Friel's mum in a new movie proved an emotional experience for Trudie Styler. Trudie Styler, looking svelte and sexy in a Seventies turquoise jump-suit, stretches out on a sofa and pauses for a moment before explaining why the film she's been shooting on the Isle of Man has been her most emotional screen experience...
Nov 01, 2001
Sting On The Fragile Art Of 'All This Time': I looked out across the river ...and saw a city and an old church tower ...priests came 'round tonight ...to offer prayers for the dying, to serve the final rite - Sting, 'All This Time'. Like echoing fragments of a familiar song, the sights at dusk on a recent September day at the Certosa del Galluzzo priory and church near Tuscany's Arno River seemed stirring and sadly symbolic in their comforting agelessness-as if life's deepest sensations have all been known and felt before. Minutes before sundown, a portly Italian monk of the Cisterian order met Sting; his wife, Trudie Styler; and their few guests at the massive gate of the castle-like monastery overlooking Florence. After bows and cordial hand clasps were exchanged, he led us down into the cloister's cavernous, 14th-century corridors...
Nov 01, 2001
We met Sting earlier last week just ahead of his one-off date on November 5th in the BBC Radio Theatre and we talked about music, The Police and we talked about his new album too. It's called '...All This Time' and I was doing some sums and it's probably the wrong side of twenty one years - does it feel like that...?
Oct 17, 2001
The following transcript is of a webchat that Sting did on 31October 2001 with Vizzavi. Hosting the chat was Jools Holland...
Oct 01, 2001
He's as well known for his outspoken defence of human rights and the rainforest as he is for his music. But for the past two years Sting has been concentrating on what he does best - playing live with his band. Alan Franks meets a lord of the rockocracy in his Tuscan palazzo. If the New York terrorists had wanted to spoil Sting's party, they could hardly have shown more lethal timing. As he stepped out to front the band in the courtyard of his Tuscan villa, it was barely five hours after the collapse of the World Trade Centre. This was an audience of just 200 friends, invited from all over the place to hear an intimate version of the concert which he has been taking round the world for the past two years. A live album, to be released next month, was being recorded. The mood should have been exuberant, but it was understandably weird and sombre, with that nightmare footage of planes and buildings still looping through everyone's head...