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Nov 23, 1985
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Pop star Sting goes jazz: Sting, the pop star and actor who left the hugely successful Police to start his own jazz-rock band, has returned to the sound that first inspired him to become a musician...
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Nov 01, 1985
THE SAN DIEGO-UNION-TRIBUNE
Bring on the new Sting: It was hard to tell whether there was a moon over Bourbon Street the night Sting and his band hit town, what with the imminent arrival of Hurricane Juan and his vanguard of attendant clouds. But you could still hear and see Sting, and he was more than just a shade. Over the course of a few days, he strolled through the heart of the French Quarter, danced around a concert stage, jovially jousted with reporters in interviews, tumbled through a soccer game at a local field and cavorted on the silver screen...
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Oct 01, 1985
THE MIAMI HERALD
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
THE ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION
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
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS
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
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
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
THE WASHINGTON POST
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
ROLLING STONE
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
RECORD
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
NEWSWEEK
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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