The old lady's actually a guy. Quentin Crisp was a British author that moved to America in the 80s. I think I read somewhere he and Sting became friendly and Crisp's stories lead Sting to write Englishman in New York. I suggest looking him up, it's interesting the stuff he went through... I also found out recently that Sting did at least live in NYC at one point.
CSeptember He still does. He owns I believe two luxurious apartments in NYC. British ppl are not too crazy about his wife Trudie Styler bc she was considered “home wrecker” at one point (do the google search), so Sting and Trudie moved to NY. He’s of course not in the city right now during COVID outbreak but I hope they will come back once this is all done.
@@emid5726 Yep, they went to UK then to Italy (after the COVID frenzy) - They still are there at the moment harvesting their Toscan grapes to make their tasty wines. ;--)
you MUST for your own sake check out his song FRAGILE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lB6a-iD6ZOY.html and if you love that. Fields Of Barley: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KLVq0IAzh1A.html
Maybe you've seen Sting in Police, they made a number of hits. Roxanne, Message In A Bottle, Don't Stand So Close To Me, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, etc
it's a soprano saxophone the guy is playing. Beautiful song by sting. You should check out Fragile, Shape of My Heart and Fields of Gold. And the older gentleman he is featuring is Quentin Crisp, and the song is about being yourself even when people are making fun of you when it comes to your sexuality or anything else! As you thought, a Lady, when in fact it's The Gentleman. That's the point, people would make fun of him being feminine yet he stands tall and is himself in the face of prejudice :)
Maybe you should listen to another similarly titled song. "An Englishman in New York " By Godley& Creme,who are ex 10CC members. Completely different to this one, with more sarcasm and visual oddities.
That outro is Mr. Bradford Marsalis!! Look up the whole legendary family. Love him. He's an actor as well. You can find him is Spike Lee's School Dayz.
Yes glad you enjoyed this exquisite song is about Quentin Crisp. The first open homosexual way back when it was frowned upon, so he moved to New York to get away from all the homophobia in the U.K. As for the singer. It is Sting from the band The Police maybe. (If you've heard of them before) I'd be interested to know. You really have been listening to the cream of the crop as far as I can see. 👌
It's actually not a trumpet but in fact a saxophone. I'm not sure what type because there's multiple types and I'm not a sax player but I know it's a sax haha lol. Kinda sounds like ot could be a tenor or soprano sax.
