Sting
Sting review – still great, but doesn’t he just know it
At the first show of a six-night residency, Sting demonstrates he is near peerless as a pop composer – but his jazzy arrangements and self-seriousness irritate
Ian Gittins
16, Apr, 2022 @10:13 AM
The week in audio: Who Is Aldrich Kemp?; I Must Have Loved You; Some Kind of Black
Sting can’t lift his own limp drama, but a ludicrous crime caper is a hoot and there’s fun to be had for breakfast
Miranda Sawyer
26, Mar, 2022 @5:00 PM
Sting sells back catalogue to Universal Music in deal worth up to $300m
Musician becomes latest big name to cash in on a long and successful career
Mark Sweney
10, Feb, 2022 @2:55 PM
A Sting in the tale: how the music of the Police inspired a dance show about refugees
Choreographer Kate Prince’s latest production is a departure from ZooNation’s usual feel-good shows. But Message in a Bottle is inspired by the incredible true stories
Lyndsey Winship
01, Oct, 2021 @1:00 PM
Message in a wine bottle: how Sting got stung when he bought a vineyard
The singer and his wife, Trudie Styler, bought an Italian wine-producing estate after being given a glass of plonk by the owner. There was just one problem...
18, Aug, 2021 @7:00 AM
Coups, lies, dirty tricks: The Police's Stewart Copeland on his CIA agent father
The drummer was brought up in the Middle East – not realising that his father Miles was a spy sent to destabilise the region. But, he says, it was Miles’s claim that the Police were a psy-ops outfit that upset Sting
Dorian Lynskey
05, Aug, 2020 @5:00 AM
'I should have grown out of this': how pop fandom shaped us
As Pete Paphides publishes a memoir of his life in pop, our writers reflect on the childhood musical loves that made them
Pete Paphides, Alexis Petridis, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Laura Snapes, Hannah J Davies and Michael Hann
05, Mar, 2020 @8:54 AM
Message in a Bottle review – Sting soundtracks a blistering hip-hop tale of refugees
A compelling cast pour their hearts into Kate Prince’s jukebox tale of civil war, trafficking and three siblings separated as refugees
Lyndsey Winship
20, Feb, 2020 @1:37 PM
Can Little Britain stagger out of the gutter this time? We can only hope | Barbara Ellen
The bad boys of repulsive comedy want to clean up their act – 12 years too late
Barbara Ellen
25, Jan, 2020 @4:45 PM
Stewart Copeland: conflicts over music caused rifts with Sting
When we don’t play music together we get on famously, Police drummer reveals
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
07, Jan, 2020 @12:01 AM
Sting & Shaggy review – pop-reggae odd couple are far from boombastic
Touring their Grammy-winning album, Sting is in decent voice, but Shaggy adds little of substance
Stevie Chick
20, May, 2019 @10:45 AM
Trudie Styler: ‘When I feel things strongly I have to act on them'
The actor, 65, on the road accident that scarred her, following her dreams – and being with Sting for 37 years
Nick McGrath
07, Apr, 2019 @1:00 PM
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