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Sting talks about acting, what it's like to be first rock band to play in Bombay and how he got his name. (Air date: 11/10/82)
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@lynnturman8157 Год назад

One of the great singer songwriters. And nobody had a sound like the Police. One part jazz, one part punk, one part reggae.

@mikelbell5419 Год назад

I really don't understand the audience's non-reaction to Sting's amazing sense of humor. It seems that it took about three minutes before they realized he was hilarious.

@lucifer73 Год назад

40 years ago the dry, self-deprecating sense of humor the British are known for had not yet caught on.

@pczarnecki82 Год назад

Dude he is British , that's says a lot xD

@frankjamesbonarrigo7162 Год назад

What non reaction?

@frankjamesbonarrigo7162 Год назад

@@lucifer73 people are laughing, did they change the video? Where is this non reaction?

@v-town1980 Год назад

@@lucifer73 There were laughs, but it is British humor; surprise! In other countries it doesn't translate well. Not just in America.

@mediamannaman Год назад

Dave: "What was it like in Bombay?" Sting: "Nothing like Peoria." They played off of each other perfectly.

@johnb1150 Год назад

A joke lost on any non American as I'd never even heard of that place til this interview

@bdbdthatsallfolks Месяц назад

6:06 Sting politely gives the crowd the finger 🤣

@ProfessorZoom2140 2 месяца назад

He has a really cool voice!

@No-oneFromNowhere 2 месяца назад

Yes he does.

@joelanning4322 10 месяцев назад

Incredible talent. A voice terribly unique. I’ve heard him many times in concert and never been let down.

@piotrkanarek 9 месяцев назад

I've got the same thought. I've seen Sting 4 times (once it was The Police). Last time I saw him one mont ago in Kraków. It's always been so emotional for me, my wife and my daughters. Turning back in my car in the night to hotel I put some music on, the ladies protested saying WE WANT STING AGAIN! I wait his next gig in Poland. We will be there. Regards from Poland!

@mitgift167 23 дня назад

This is centuries ago. How old was Sting in 1984? Thirty-three. He is 73 today and has gained refinement in every aspect. Here you see a diamant roughly cut out of rocky attachment. Today Sting is a well-tested jewel with unfathomable depth. He tried every possible alley to find success and chose the hard way - riskng unemployment rather than the security of an established job as a teacher. He came across an alley that opened and is hard working up to this day, touring the world. It's performing that means happiness to him.

@MalcolmDesigns Год назад

Those were the days in the early eighties, the music scene was so exciting and in '82 I was 19 and a freshman in college... Time and life go by much too fast!

@jibicusmaximus4827 4 месяца назад

it was kinda exciting to see new wave and new romantic emerge from the ashes of punk

@caprise-music6722 Месяц назад

Ain’t that the truth. Make the most of the time you have here on earth

@ronzombie6541 29 дней назад

College radio and alt rock still going strong '85-88.

@babyboy1971 Год назад

I met him once, wonderfully quiet kind of guy. Very cool and grounded in his own mind.

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

We met him more then once, but never when he was any good. I would love to see him in the early Police days, as a rebel, not as some old political freak he became ....

@capri2673 10 месяцев назад

@@lucasRem-ku6eb Political freak? You mean like saving the rain forests?

@taketheredpill1452 Год назад

he took a test, as a child, that marked him as intellectually gifted. He is also very well read.

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

But why he became a political freak ? Sting in the Police was good, as an old man, he became this lame political joker ...

@mikeh.8155 Год назад

@@lucasRem-ku6eb yeah saving the planet is so blasé

@BC08 3 месяца назад

@@mikeh.8155 "Saving the planet" aka power/money grab in the name of something that sounds altruistic

@danielstevenson2772 Месяц назад

I think he read a book by Nabokov among many others. He references literature quite often in his lyrics.

@digitalportraitist 2 года назад

Saw him and his son at Wolf Trap a few years ago and he was amazing! i also met Stewart Copeland at a polo match in Maryland back in the mid 80s. Stewart stills rides and plays polo. He was a great gentleman and shook my hand.

@kim.chaeyoung1765 4 месяца назад

He's just so handsome

@TheGlendrum Год назад

4:54 "we don't need any money" Sting's referring to the deal they had with the record company where they didn't take a large advance for the recording. However if the record charted- the deal was structured so they would get a huge payout .

@vintagetrikesandquads4012 Год назад

Watching Dave and old Carson interviews, it just seems they had more interesting and articulate conversations back then.

@penguinista Год назад

Dave is amazing. He took the interview format and shifted it by several degrees, just with the power of his personality.

@ErikPortland Год назад

Dave listens intently. You can see that here. He always has.

@JM-db8ez 7 месяцев назад

It was kind of his job, so yeah, I guess you're right. lol

@artisaprimus6306 7 месяцев назад

Great singer, song writer, actor, musician. He lead The Police to worldwide acclaim and seventeen Grammys and numerous other awards later, hes still performing. Amazing.

@3UZFE 2 месяца назад

He is so mysterious

@dianewinters8628 Год назад

Saw one of the last Police concerts with Roy Orbison in New York. They played, told jokes, and we all tossed around giant beach balls. One of my best memories.

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

Hello Diane Winters, Roy Orbison was forgotten, friends in the industry, R&D people all were aware that we needed to support Orbison, sting was one of these people. Re Releasing all the material, touring Europe, i saw him too, the Hero of my Fathers generation, alive and kicking, he past away 2 month after that, but in the he became what he never was, a true rockstar, thanks to the traveling hillbillies, sting and all his friends in the industry

@dianewinters8628 Год назад

@@lucasRem-ku6eb thanks for that info. Yes he will be forever cool.

@jhchooo Год назад

Huh? Last Police Concerts were in 2008. Roy Orbison passed away in 1988.

@pabloapostar7275 Год назад

@@jhchooo Bands break up and then put on nostalgia shows decades later. The Police broke up in 1986.

@chrishill6915 7 месяцев назад

roy opened for police?

@DelightLovesMovies 2 года назад

"that was more fun than I thought it was going to be.." haha

@Cerph Год назад

He cuts through the b.s. of this world, and shines brightly.

@BiggusDiggusable Год назад

Oh c'mon. He did a whole album with a lute. That is peak pretension

@mcphersoncompany2126 2 года назад

I heard him give a solo concert a few years ago. He's grown a lot as a person and performer since this long-ago interview. Quite intelligent, generous, talented, all which conveyed a touch of self-deprecating humor.

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

Without the Police he is nothing !

@3ver4fter53 Год назад

@lucas Rem You're right, Einstein, without his life, talent and work, he is nothing.

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

@@3ver4fter53 now became nothing, go back in again, guess not.Great family guy now i guess, why go back ?

@3ver4fter53 Год назад

@@lucasRem-ku6eb I don't understand when you try to express yourself.

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

@@3ver4fter53 old people can't understand normal things, you have issues.

@elquixotedelascanarias Год назад

Letterman's fashion sense was sending out an SOS.

@angelagoodwin5758 Год назад

Love this man❤❤❤

@daveg1431 Год назад

he was great, really funny 💛🤟

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

He just stopped being a teacher here, i have seen his school, 'don't stand so close so my' school girls, it was all real... Sting, his shirt, his attitude ! That was his childhood name. Who loves the Police, peace guy ?

@user-me1gd8tr2v 4 месяца назад

thanks Dave for this interview clip. It was hilarious! in some parts. I love Sting's accent, being from Britain. i just found this Jan 2024 & Happy New Year!

@andrewcarpenter9222 Год назад

One of the best, maybe the best concerts I have ever seen, The Police.

@Dan-nt2yb 2 года назад

The first 2 Police albums.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@catherine5090 4 дня назад

Great voice iv seen him twice and brilliant each time,plus still a hunk😛

@steelyman08 6 месяцев назад

Peoria!! Nailed it. I lived there & can't imagine The Police playing there. Wow!

@user-td4zp4gq2p 20 дней назад

When i met him he was devoid of personality! Great looking guy. Educated, can write, play he does it all. I guess arrogance comes the talent.

@kristinemunholland8980 2 года назад

Late to seeing this, but what strikes me most is how nervous Dave appears as the interviewer here. Nervous may not be the best word choice, but you get the gist - sort of supplicating, deferential. Yet he became the most confident and important late night interviewer ever. Hell, he hosted POTUS #44 repeatedly and did so with aplomb. No one he couldn't have an informed, confident exchange with. Appreciate how instructive this 40 year old (!!!!!!) video is....

@allendracabal0819 Год назад

Well said, and I agree with all of your observations. I once read a description of POTUS #44 as being "preternaturally confident". I feel the same way about Dave starting just a few years after this interview was taped.

@v-town1980 Год назад

I love that early "nervous" Dave. Most of his best interviews, skits etc are from that era.

@BabaBest2000 Год назад

This is the best interview I've ever seen from either one.

@MultiPetercool Год назад

I still love hearing Toyah Willcocks and Phil Daniels tell stories about Sting on the set of Quadraphenia. “Gordon is a Moron” 😂😜😉

@MultiPetercool День назад

@@DameTremonti Toyah is treasure. Fripp has great taste.

@DancatzMuzik 4 месяца назад

I'm glad that Stewart and Andy have recently told the actual stories of their origins on long form podcasts rather than the enigmatic half-truths from Sting here.

@merlomusic7856 Месяц назад

One of the greatest rock singers with the great Dave Letterman. Letterman still cracks my ass up. You can tell that Sting was amused by him as well. Both are among my favorites at what they do which means I have great taste of course. 😂

@tomitstube Год назад

their first album took the u.s. by storm if you aren't familiar, roxanne a massive hit, they get called a lot of things but they were kind of forerunners to alternative rock for me.

@SummerofKittyLove Год назад

Wow he was so cute

@EM-fd8xe Год назад

I remember when this first aired.

@TheShaneBot 2 года назад

This was great to see - thank you. And - I don't think he was an ass or scoffing at anything - I think he was taking it all in good humor and having a laugh with it all - but in a cool, conserved kinda way. I really enjoyed it.

@manuelceballos11 2 года назад

yeap. I agree. Is just the way he was that could come across as arrogance.

@HughGenvoenni Год назад

I think it’s just the subtle yet mildly self-deprecating humor thats very British and might rub Americans who aren’t used to it the wrong way

@dogmart Год назад

"...but in a cool, conserved kinda way." That is, being English. :)

@v-town1980 Год назад

@@HughGenvoenni SOME Americans. We're a big country. There are tons of different people here.

@tonyjedioftheforest1364 Год назад

We had a very dirty smelly man at work that some ignorant people nicknamed stink. He was a bit deaf and thought they were calling him sting. That name stuck. They also called him dirt and again he miss heard and thought they were calling him Dirk. That name also stuck and he answered to both. It turned out that he had been in the Falklands war in the artillery and this is how he had damaged his hearing. When they found out he was treated with respect and was called by his real name Ian. He was a lovely inoffensive bloke who was a pleasure to work with.

@wlouisharris 10 месяцев назад

To me Sting is the character he was from Quadraphenia. Smug and mysterious. Great artist. He could have accomplished a lot more I think with the Police but he was tired of the formula went more in a jazz direction. He didn't have any interest in writing more hit rock albums. The Police could have done what Bono and U2 did cranking out more hit albums and huge arena tours but just not where Sting wanted to go.

@steelyman08 6 месяцев назад

I'm glad of that. The man's a genius & has tackled just about everything. "Ten Summoner's Tales" is worth it alone. I don't dig into personal lives too much. You can tell from the comment section that the music's being eclipsed by how people feel about him on a personal level. Tends to spoil the music for me! Certain YT channels make a killing dragging artists through the muck. I'm glad I don't enjoy them. (And I did not perceive your comment to be negative at all).

@catherinewilliams9680 10 месяцев назад

I had no idea he promoted Brimstone and Treacle in the US.

@Foma_USA_White_Dragon Год назад

Sting real man ,real people ....

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

Sting is not that, sorry..... He is a Rebel only !

@Order4627 Год назад

You cannot beat the subtle English humour which we are famous for.

@wordup897 Год назад

or the humility

@elkalabaw7665 Год назад

@@wordup897 now that was subtle.

@markpalmer8083 Год назад

I wasn't rolling on the floor.

@thewomble1509 Год назад

@@markpalmer8083 That's the humble part of the humour at work................

@frankjamesbonarrigo7162 Год назад

What jokes am I missing? Please point them out

@sleepydragonzarinthal3533 Год назад

Now watch his recent interview with Beato and you'll understand this interview and his younger persona much better

@smartbart80 Год назад

7:20 the nickname question

@markusthedrummer8143 6 месяцев назад

4:26 Hey hey Letterman predicts the future!!!!!!!!!

@johnmulhausen2322 2 года назад

Nice pen, Sting!

@marcweissman5752 8 месяцев назад

that he gave to Phoebe 😂

@markjusticevipond6642 2 месяца назад

I enjoyed learning about The Police from Sting, a gracious Knight!

@paulonorato7501 2 года назад

Cool

@colourfulmagic Год назад

Sensitive skin.. I can tell.. How cute to be young.. I like the interview.. Sting..

@TheMICMusicInspirationChannel Год назад

I think he was embarrassed to admit that they bleached their hair for a chewing gum commercial.

@joniroxanne96 9 месяцев назад

That "mysteriously" vanished. 🤨

@burnikshrapnel 7 месяцев назад

Now that's John Constantine right there

@neuvocastezero1838 Год назад

I sort of figured "Sting" was a play on words for fronting a band called "The Police", with a drummer that might be called "Perp Walk", and a guitarist named "The Bracelets".

@marcweissman5752 8 месяцев назад

Nope, but the whole bumblebee reference is true. However it was the trombone player member in the Phoenix Jazzmen who coined the name, not someone from school.

@ThinkerThunker Год назад

I would've sworn the name came from the sword of the same name, given to Frodo by the Elves.

@brunodavidferreira5781 9 месяцев назад

He looks like Mcguiver...ir Mcguiver looks like Sting?!?🤔🤣🤔😂

@gh-vi9tk 4 месяца назад

On another video interview, Sting gave Bernard "Benny" Green, a British jazz saxophonist, as the reason for the nickname.

@amandaoliver7294 7 месяцев назад

LoL epic video made... bumble bee cover alls (sting) hence

@felixthelmocevallosmorales41 10 месяцев назад

David Michael Letterman (12 de abril de 1947) es un presentador, comediante, escritor y productor de televisión estadounidense.

@matheusmicrohobby Год назад

I was thinking it was the actor from MacGyver 🤣

@kristine6996 Год назад

He is playing catch me if you can.

@mk8530 Год назад

07:30 There you have it.

@aslanpedersen7467 4 месяца назад

When he sings he sounds like Steve Perry from Journey.

@tonyt8805 2 года назад

"Outlandish D'Amour" Debut when I was in 10th grade 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

@noahstrodtman6121 2 года назад

Outlandish?

@joadbreslin5819 Год назад

That's outrageous!

@tonyt8805 Год назад

“Outlandos” 🙈🙈🙈 I hate Autocorrect 😡😡😡

@xScooterAZx Год назад

Well,..where's the PG version for the reason for his name?? Baaaah!

@just-sayin67 11 месяцев назад

41 years later, look at all he's done! (He was my first love, before Morten Harket)

@riproar11 Год назад

In an SNL skit when Sting was the show guest, Chris Kattan auditioned as a dancer, even though they were only auditioning women. Kris addressed Sting's wife as "Mrs. Sting".

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

SNL, thanks, yeah, that was great ! He should do more SNL, the best political comedy sketches are on SNL, wow, i love that show !

@riproar11 Год назад

@@lucasRem-ku6eb Remember Steve Martin as James Bond and sting was the wealthy villain "Goldsting"? "The pretzels are no longer complimentary Mr. Bond!"

@preesi1403 2 года назад

The first time Sting met his hero, Elton John, Elton was wearing a Minnie Mouse Costume

@whitebirchtarot Год назад

@@pashadyne I’ll never think of Mickey Mouse the same way again. 😁

@v-town1980 Год назад

Well, he IS a fruit.

@whitebirchtarot Год назад

@@v-town1980 Who, Mickey? Nah!

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

Elton John is a very ugly guy, so he needed costume outfits...

@whitebirchtarot Год назад

@@lucasRem-ku6eb Beauty comes from within, but I guess you wouldn’t know that.

@Gibberishus Год назад

In short. Someone called him Sting. And it stuck.

@freebee8221 10 месяцев назад

Iv always been a huge fan of MacGyver 😀😀

@fleeb Год назад

Rather amusing that a band named Police got its start stealing equipment, heh.

@exessex3522 2 года назад

So what's the non-clean version?

@joadbreslin5819 Год назад

It's the exact same story, but with the word "fookin" sprinkled in a few times.

@fabrisoto Год назад

👌🏼

@escuipo Год назад

it better sting than stink!!....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂

@taromilktea08 3 месяца назад

6:06 stingy probably flipping someone off

@TheAgentAssassin Год назад

At least he's humble. -_-

@ziggyustar3137 Год назад

Back Stage at the Max Bell Arena back stage passes/// I get to see the concert from the stage I was early 20' now almost 64/ Roxanne/ I have every album still of course autographs from all three

@deanl0 Год назад

Yeah so that was edited out.. was just wondering what came out of his Jean Jacket Pocket .. Pen

@marcofreitas3844 5 месяцев назад

At 2:19, Sting says about the movie´s director, "...his ???of judgement..." Can anybody help?

@marcofreitas3844 2 месяца назад

Thank you!@@nicksterj

@mrsherwood2599 10 месяцев назад

When he did Letterman in '85 it was a little...different lol.

@ernie316 Год назад

He nearly slips back into Geordie a few times

@markpalmer8083 Год назад

This was pretentious RP.

@MrMjolnir69 Год назад

Well spotted. But that's the only (smart) approach when you get a shot at a us audience.

@tcrijwanachoudhury Год назад

@@markpalmer8083 apparently true RP doesn't actually exist 🤔

@catherinewilliams9680 10 месяцев назад

I would love to see an interview between the 70 year old versions of these two.

@longlivebytor Год назад

Interesting interview. How well did Sting know his bandmates at this point? Stuart Copeland is not from Washington (State or DC).

@OMGWTFLOLSMH Год назад

He was born in Virginia, which is literally across the bridge from D.C.

@v-town1980 Год назад

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH Still not the same.

@jimimurti Год назад

Knowing people has not so much to do with the exact location they come from.

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

Larry Massengale, Sting is a loner, it's his will, or he is out, they all needed to follow him. Somerset, Stuart Copeland too ! Only his daddy was CIA spy guy in Libanon, Copeland was not American at all ! Know your band, why you cry that, he was a lonesome rebel !

@maltmustang5075 Год назад

Sting may not have known exactly where his bandmate was from, but I'll bet he knew how to spell his first name correctly! Just funning with you man, great channel name!

@peterhaslund Год назад

Always weirdly detached from our world, yet writing great songs about it...

@normanau7947 2 года назад

Props to Sting for acknowledging the Band. They were so raw and tight when it was just the four of them.

@annika_panicka 2 года назад

Four?

@kennedy27403 Год назад

@@annika_panicka Paul, Syd, Will, and Anton. Before they added the horns and second gtr player

@annika_panicka Год назад

@@kennedy27403 Oh-Lol! I thought he was talking about The Police. I didn't hear him acknowledge Shaffer et al. Thanks.

@joadbreslin5819 Год назад

@@kennedy27403 Actually, it was Paul, Hiram, Will, and Steve that Sting was acknowledging.

@marcweissman5752 8 месяцев назад

@@annika_panickaSame here lol. I thought maybe he included Henri lol

@v-town1980 Год назад

Yeah, Sting's a typical cocky, arrogant limey in the US here. But his limey humor is clear and present. That we love. Dave, of course, was fantastic and raw back then. Nervous and sarcastic. Love it!

@PhilRounds 10 месяцев назад

I almost saw the Poughkeepsie show, but i was too lazy to go out that night. :/

@davegarciaofficial Год назад

In the process of changing the nose :)

@user-td4zp4gq2p 20 дней назад

Freddy Mercury was from Bombay.

@giuffre714 Год назад

What's the R version?

@ROOKTABULA Год назад

Sting didn't work as hard to hide his rather large ego back then.

@baantalingngam Год назад

A very intelligent person with an ego.

@user-ij3ie6gw8h Год назад

It is not EGO. Это необыкновенная уверенность в свои возможности, как музыканта.

@roballen6449 10 месяцев назад

He earned his right to have as large of an ego as he wants.

@EKL-qu7ih 13 дней назад

What makes you say a large ego?

@kpec3 Год назад

I always thought that he made up his stage name and made up the stories around it, how many of those are there?

@lethiapage4767 Год назад

I thought Sting.....a former English teacher and an avid reader..... had taken his name from Bilbo's sword.

@whitebirchtarot Год назад

Me, too!

@sitindogmas Год назад

clap

@Thisisnttravis Год назад

never forget letterman sniffed and ate Jennifer Anniston's hair

@v-town1980 Год назад

I would too. Oh, I'm thinking of Jennifer Garner.

@frankjamesbonarrigo7162 Год назад

If I was him I would think I was Mephistopheles too . Fucking great music, millionaire, good looks. He was in top of the world

@lucasRem-ku6eb Год назад

It's just POP music, he was never on Drake levels... College rock band...

@CyberKaz 11 месяцев назад

@@lucasRem-ku6eblol drake lol

@tonymaner5510 10 месяцев назад

@@lucasRem-ku6ebmaybe you are just simply envious

@thewomble1509 6 месяцев назад

@@lucasRem-ku6eb Said no one ever.

@johnpandolfino8663 Год назад

He dressed like a bumblebee....

@5milessep Месяц назад

A very good interview by Letterman. But I’ll never forget how one Australian Sixty Minutes interviewer conducted himself with Sting, trying to make a big point of calling out his real name a number of time during the segment, all I could think at the time was what a dill. But I shouldn’t have been surprised because that program hardly ever produced mind provoking material.