I ended up staying up and watching quite a bit of it.
The Police is the worst band name of all time.
He’s the smuggest man in the world.
He was pretty good at writing melodies.
That’s it I think.
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Did they show the ship building musical he did with Jimmy Naill? Very funny stuff
Also: never knew The Police were the “biggest band in the world” at one point.
‘Smug’ seems too small a word for how smug Sting is.
Regrettably the Police did have a couple of good songs.
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Yeah, any town or city I go to in the world I see people wearing their logo all over their clothes, often even emblazoned across their cars
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Still remember seeing him on BBC Breakfast talking about his lute album and saying he wouldn’t do another one because “lute albums don’t pay the bills”
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One of my favourite videos, the smug is seeping out of every pore
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I put on 2 mins of the Radio 2 performance as I thought Sting just played the Lute. As it happens he just plays slow versions of his old songs in a much lower key
The Police were great but I put a lot of credit for that on Andy Summers and especially Stewart Copeland. The Live album is genuinely brilliant.
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“Smugness” isn’t really a thing I believe in generally though tbh, people sometimes get called smug because they smile a certain way even though they might be deeply insecure. It’s an annoying word. No one’s ever actually smug.
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Narcissus!
Yeah fuck it this definitely works
Yeah I hate string. Rubbish
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Alright, the nylon industry.
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First heard this song via the Feeder cover
Quite liked him in that clip with Vic and Bob
I know people that work with him on tours and stuff, supposedly very funny, nice etc.
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I love that he (Sting) ended up in a massively successful band with a massive windup merchant (Copeland) who detested his smugness and took every opportunity to bring him down a peg or two.