That was a good interview with Sting. I liked the interviewers technique too, very knowledgeable, natural and can think on his feet which is very rare to find. Give him his own show if he has not already got one!

This interviewer is very sharp, and interested in his subject. Props to him.

That interviewer has the best questions ever!

A particularly good Sting interview. Sting was evidently relaxed, engaged, and open. Interviewer was verrrry good.

Absolutely brilliant interview and more so - interviewer! Wow, intelligent - thats rare. Thanks so much.

Brilliant inteviewer!!

Best interviewer I've ever watched. I've seen a few of his interviews and his emotional intelligence brings out confession in even the most guarded of interviewee.

I played in a band in the late eighties. I was normally 6 string, but that band needed a bass player. And we played at the rattskellar and the channel in Boston. And I heard that the Police had already played at both of them. Which I was really into at the time, and even gave a Police anthology to my guitar teacher, to help me learn guitar. But those gigs, I tried to figure where Sting would have been on the stage, based on what I had seen of them playing. I guessed it would be the right side, facing the audience.

Great interview!, not very often you see such close and causal interview with great questions :) .

Either he caught Sting on a good day?! ... or he's a well skilled interviewer! It was nicely paced, the overall tone, was unpretentious & genuine. Great watch! Great listen! Thanks for posting. Watching this 3/3/20!

@neaituppi7306

3 жыл бұрын

Or maybe Sting isn't the Sting you thought he was. Sting and Roger Waters seem to have a similar issue of people having a view of them, based on the information warfare.

He kept his boots from Dune, that's cool.

@QwithTomPower

7 жыл бұрын

Aren't they sharp? Shades of Feyd indeed!

@neaituppi7306

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe they were his boots already. Not from the Dune wardrobe .

great interviewer and interview. I wanna be as cool as Sting when I grow up.

@QwithTomPower

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers! Thanks. We do too.

@steffanhoffmann8937

4 жыл бұрын

I aready am.....

I keep thinking Tom is about to fall off the couch! He's literally on the edge of his seat! 16:02

@majortom4543

6 жыл бұрын

cheap son of a bitch was farting so he was having a hard time letting them go in silence.

@mitza420

4 жыл бұрын

@@majortom4543 lol

What a brilliant interview. Very interesting questions and well thought out.

I think we’re genuinely more concerned with the planet than when I was a child ( though we ARE in the minute to midnight situation ) cos when I went to University to be an ecologist - influenced by Rachel Carson and her book ‘ Silent Spring ‘ no one really knew what an ecologist was . Prince William now seems to realise this and of course the wonderful David Attenborough has been banging on about this for years. Funnily enough I went to Leicester University where his father was the first Vice Chancellor ! My dad loved ‘ golden ‘ hamsters and I had several as pets cos he’d worked for the Iraq petroleum company in Syria where they were ‘ rediscovered ‘ about 100 years ago !

Awesome interview...

Brave young interviewer - Even though he interviews a giant he still make it a bit of hard on him and thats good. Sting only mistakes once in the interview: Music can change people and his music (sting's) changed my life forever and made me dream and live.

@QwithTomPower

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. You're right Sting is indeed a giant. Thanks for your share on music changing lives. 100% agree.

@charlesangold4513

6 жыл бұрын

But He says,and I agree,music can plant seeds on people's minds...sometimes those seeds can be really powerful,I must add.

@charlesangold4513

6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant interview.

@tyronemckenna2541

6 жыл бұрын

You did well, but left a couple of areas unexplored - such as Gordon's involvement in choosing to record at George Martin's Air Studios in the British Offshore Territory (aka tax haven) of Montserrat during the 1980's, which effectively made him a tax exile. It should also be noted that Montserrat's colonial history was founded on the slave trade of the late 1600's. He also recorded in Wisseloord, Netherlands, a country which has an extremely favourable tax system for musicians and artists (the main reason why U2 moved their P.E. there in the early 00's when Ireland's tax system changed). Another interesting area to discuss is the fact that rearranging old Police songs as elevator music invariably means that the other two members of the original band do not receive any performance royalties. Added to that, Gordon Sumner's charitable exploits (which he appears to know very little about in this interview) also protect his vast income from the tax authorities. It would have been interesting to hear his responses concerning his tax arrangements and how these relate to his apparently leftish politic. Thanks!

@guillermosahuquillo4499

6 жыл бұрын

Those are the seeds he’s talking about

I haven't seen so good interview - and in addition to Sting - for a long time. Concise, deep questions. Dynamics. Very good material @q_on_cbc :)

@QwithTomPower

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers! Preparation is the key!

Interesting that so many of the comments are about the interviewer, and I totally agree. One of the best interviewers I've seen. Thanks!

Good interview and exchange of thoughts, thank you! Last saw Sting was with Peter Gabriel at the Quebec City Summer Festival 2016, awesome show.

@QwithTomPower

7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

great music

I'm driven by a chauffeur .. her name is Curiosity

Interviewer, Take note! You will see this offen. Rockers will start out rebellious. Think outside the box. Then with success comes acceptance and upward lifestyle. Then said artist becomes absorbed by the things they rebelled against. That's why people say Rock is dead! And their accent becomes posh too.

@mitza420

4 жыл бұрын

True, Stewart said once he bought his first house he didn't mind it (money fame etc) anymore haha

It's ok Sting, we know what it is 😃

I used to tell audiences "I am an ARTIST -- NOT an entertainer. What that means is... I only have to PLEASE MYSELF!"

I've only recently realised that Sting at some point started to sound a bit mumbly in interviews.

@RocketCalcutta

2 жыл бұрын

Alcohol's gradual destruction

"The more you find out about music, the less you know"

Sting being awkwardly blunt at 7:23.

Sting looks a little bit like robin williams

KOOL POLICE

Sting looks like Steve Martin here.

Sting has gotten tired, lazy, and a bit jaded. He used to be willing to invest the blood, sweat, and tears into a truly memorable album. Today his music is a product of short arbitrary time limitations or other motivational gimmicks to produce the same generic crap everyone else is making now. It's the same kind of music one used to go to a Sting album to avoid! After Sacred Love, he did an entire album of John Dowland songs. Symphonicity was an exercise in recycling. Sure, he toured with Peter Gabriel, but they were just resting on each other's laurels playing each others songs. He does a tour with "Shag," and it's forgettable Reggae. Sometimes a collaboration works well. Always by Your Side turned-out well enough. But if he keeps up like this, people are going to forget what a really good original Sting album sounds like.

@thelightswitchflickers3161

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you there, I've been a Sting fan since the Soul cages album and I feel his recent work just doesn't feel original or authentic but merely running through the same machine, self indulging in the fact that he can.

@bonzodog67lizardking15

3 жыл бұрын

@@thelightswitchflickers3161 His 57th and 9th was a collection of songs that had the arbitrary time limit for composing. The best song on it, "Empty Chair" was a composition he initially thought he couldn't do. It wasn't composed by the clock, and was magnificent. That's where Sting needs to go; somewhere challenging and beyond his comfort zone.

@thelightswitchflickers3161

3 жыл бұрын

@@bonzodog67lizardking15 absolutely man! Hopefully we'll get something worthwhile before it's too late

@bonzodog67lizardking15

3 жыл бұрын

@Wid Eye "Sun" is a classic and nobody can take any of those classic songs away from Sting. Put it this way, Sting has said on more than one occasion, his religion is Music. What is one to make of a guy who when he's not making disposable pop just keeps re-releasing his back catalog...apostate? As faux punk, he may well be too old to do anything but play existing Police hits. On the other hand, nothing is in the way of him making more adult contemporary Jazz fusion music. It's not because he has something to prove, but because it was his unique musical offering he hasn't done in a long time.

Sting is starting to look like Steve Martin.

hes looking a bit jim davidson

he says he didnt get to spend much time with his kids when they were growing up, "I had to go out and WORK !!!" as though he struggled daily to put food on the table for his family- but the truth is though, he was a mega-multi millionare by then- he didnt have to do anything . And it's not like his intention was to leave a nice fortune for his kids and theirs for generations to come, no, he has stated his intention is to spend it all and to his kids nothing but the legacy of an isolated upbringing.

@dzre2087

7 жыл бұрын

When you hear Lady Gaga made $500 million on tour, you forget that her EXPENSES were 499 million! (Touring is THE least efficient thing possible!)

Heisenberg!

Many have trouble with him getting older. Do they think they are immortals?

!!! ... !!! ... !!! ...

OK all you Horologists, what watch is he rocking?

What year was this filmed?

Mark chapter 8 vs 36

does Sting have a cold here?

@RocketCalcutta

2 жыл бұрын

Alcohol's gradual destruction

@Rightsideup

2 жыл бұрын

He sounds like he's losing teeth.

Stewart Copeland was the Police.......................

@cafinario

Жыл бұрын

Well, no.

Morte ou vivante savoir la vérité pour nous protéger

Leave it to a Canadian to interject politics into music.

@Byzantios1

2 жыл бұрын

All part of the plan. We need to reinforce the approved narrative.

Sting has become a kind of boredom!

Sting isn't cynical ??? Eh? All the Police albums were entrenched with deep angst and cynicism in the lyrics he wrote. Brilliant interview but I feel Sting will only be himself with people on his own level.

Brilliant interview, lacking the vocabulary.

Is he missing teeth? He sounds super weird here

Album was still crap regardless.

@bonzodog67lizardking15

5 жыл бұрын

It's been a while since Sting was at the top of his game. With the exception of a song here or there, the bottom seems to have come out with "Sacred Love."

@jonnblackwell7747

5 жыл бұрын

@@bonzodog67lizardking15 Agreed. He was a master songwriter that has run out of ideas.

@bonzodog67lizardking15

5 жыл бұрын

@@jonnblackwell7747+ Yeah. I don't begrudge an artist the occasional writer's block, but when he's had them in the past, they were followed by solid work like "Nothing Like the Sun," or "Soul Cages." For him to say not, "I'm having writer's block," but go on about how mysterious music is in writing and consumption this late in his career is revealing. Maybe he's just bored with it, or maybe with flat CD sales, he doesn't get the same kick he got in the 80s and 90s. His liner notes in Mercury Falling, was the first sign he was starting to doubt the longevity of his talent/popularity. Still, "Brand New Day" followed along with a number of good stand alone singles that remained quite good. Now it's like he's not even trying anymore.

@jonnblackwell7747

5 жыл бұрын

@@bonzodog67lizardking15 The wealth put an end to the creativity. No challenge anymore.

@bonzodog67lizardking15

5 жыл бұрын

@@jonnblackwell7747+ Interesting take, but I'm not so sure. He had quite a pile of money when he was doing some of his best work. I'm more inclined to chalk-it-up to a mid-life crisis. Kipper really screwed with his sound -- over engineering, computer samplings -- and Sting felt invigorated by the idiot...until "Sacred Love" tanked. That album was so forgettable and derivative of earlier material you wonder why he didn't hold-off -- as he had done in the past -- until he had some good material. "Sacred Love" had tracks that slid into parody territory, and "Whenever I Say Your Name" was cringe worthy. Ugg.

he asks great questions, but he really needs to get a sense of humor.

the interviewer is too boring ... and Sting can’t stand it ....

Sting your music is DOA and stale. Are you too stuck up to work hard and make good music ?

UNEXPECTEDLY Dumb political BS thrown into an otherwise great interview: what a shame they blew it

why did he do this interview? lol