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Oct 01, 1999
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
Sting slips a bass guitar around his shoulders as he steps to the microphone on the stage of the Joint, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino's stylish rock club. Backed by a five-piece band, he begins singing 'A Thousand Years', a new millennium-minded love song filled with the graceful, introspective touches that have become his musical trademark. Sting's voice doesn't assert a lot of power - a point critics noted when he had difficulty reaching the back rows of a Washington theater in previews of a Broadway-bound production of '3 Penny Opera' a decade ago...
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Oct 01, 1999
BASSIST
Bass playing, Pastorius, and why he'll never reform The Police. You need to treasure the stars of this world. I realised this sitting in the pub one day, listening to a mate ranting on about the pitiful state of the current music scene. "Where is today's Jimi Hendrix?" he was saying. "Where are the Beatles equivalents? The Bob Dylans, Led Zeppelins, Brian Wilsons, and David Bowies of today? There's plenty of imitators, but where are the people who are forging ahead like they did? "In fact it's worse than that," he continued, between sups of his sixth pint of Guinness Extra Cold. "Nowadays when you look back at bands that were considered second division - y'know excellent bands, but not really what you'd call genius - and you look at them now, and they piss all over the so-called big stars of today. I mean, look at a band like The Police: where's their equivalent?
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Oct 01, 1999
MUSIC 365
Sumner Time is here again: Debuting at Number Five in the UK album charts this weekend (October 3) with his new album 'Brand New Day', Sting marks his return to the public eye after an absence of three years since the Mercury Falling album. Music365 spoke to the jazz-friendly ace of bass - also known to HM taxman as Mr Gordon Sumner - and heard studio tales of long-lamented spaniels and their mistresses, golfing hero Jack Nicklaus' songwriting tips and long walks in the Himalayan mountains...
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Oct 01, 1999
AUDIO MEDIA
Simon Osborne has been Sting's engineer for the last ten years, so he must be doing something right. Audio Media's Raymond James talked to him about the making of Sting's latest album, 'Brand New Day' - from conception to DVD...
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Sep 17, 1999
TWEC WEBCHAT
This is a full transcript of a webchat that Sting did in September 1999 with TWEC...
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Sep 16, 1999
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
We walk through fields of gold - Trudie Styler tells Tiffany Daneff why converting her farm in Wiltshire to organic is a natural progression. 'Is it costly? Yes. If you go organic, I think you've got to realise that it is labour intensive but, in return, we are self-sufficient for seven months of the year. I know that there hasn't been a pesticide or fertiliser put into the soil, so I can rest assured that every meal I eat here I can eat with serenity. And that counts for a lot..."
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Sep 14, 1999
THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
Sting's album 'Brand New Day' embraces a subject close to his heart: Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs, as Paul McCartney once sang. And from Shakespeare to Showaddywaddy, the noblest of emotions has inspired some of the best, and abject worst, of artists. Now it's Sting's turn, as the ex-Police chief looks to love to fill his latest disc. But 'Brand New Day' has no naff drippiness in its desire; there's nary a line of bad poetry in its passion or misplaced moralising in Sting's certainty that "love is the only thing that keeps the universe together. Everything else is just atoms flying around..."
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Sep 13, 1999
IN STYLE
In 1991 our family moved to a small village in Wiltshire, England, only the sixth family in 450 years to have lived at Lake House. How we came here is, with hindsight, a simple story - considering the financial and emotional investment it was to involve - but it took the next six years to transform the house and its original 60 acres of land into the place it is today...
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Sep 11, 1999
THE JOURNAL
Sting in tune with happy side of life - Pompous, pretentious, smug and bombastic are all words which have been used to describe Sting. As his first single for three years, 'Brand New Day', hits the charts, the Tyneside-born singer tells Phil Gould how he is a changed man who is finally happy. Sitting under the gently swaying branches of a tree in the garden of one of his many homes, pop superstar Sting looks contented. And, let's face it, he has every reason to feel pretty smug...
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Sep 09, 1999
THE DAILY MAIL
Why Sting believes pop today is bad for the young: With his latest album, 'Brand New Day', in the shops on Monday, Sting is keen to dispel any rumours of his imminent retirement from music. The singer, who turns 48 on October 2, is in the middle of a schedule that would exhaust a performer half his age. A typical day he says, involves rising at 7am, a television appearance, radio interview and a flight to Japan. Next month, he embarks on a world tour that lasts to the end of 2000...
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