In 1975, Sting formed The Police with Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland; and almost at once, his sophisticated, reggae-influenced tunes, melodic bass lines, and moody, sensual voice expanded the boundaries of pop music. By 1985, after selling millions of records, Sting was bored. He unofficially disbanded The Police and, with a group of black jazz musicians, recorded a sucessful solo album, The Dreams Of The Blue Turtles. "I always like to sketch a territory for myself that's wider than it was before," he says.
Sting's latest solo album, ...Nothing Like The Sun, features dreamlike ballads and lyrics that reflect his concern with the state of the world. His "wider territory" includes acting in ten movies, with two more on the way. He is Kathleen Turner's lover in Peter Del Monte's Julia and Julia. And in Stormy Monday with Melanie Griffith, he plays a nightclub owner with a violent, and a sensitive, side. "I like to be in movies where I can be myself," Sting says. The film was shot in his native Newcastle, where Sting got to use the dialect he abandoned ago, he says, to make himself "classless."
Now thirty-six and a millionaire, the ex-schoolteacher says, "I think you can have money and a social conscience." He channels most of his political passion into Amnesty International. "It's hard not to cry when someone talks about being tortured for their beliefs."
Sting claims that his relationships with women "are more mature these days," but that his family life is "complicated." It includes two households: one in London with ex-wife Frances Tomelty and their two children, the other in Los Angeles with actress Trudie Styler and their two offspring. "I landed in L.A. the other week with the children and three nannies. It looked like a camel train; I felt like the sheik at the head of the line."
Sting says that he's having the time of his life right now: "I'm very happy to be my age and to be doing what I do. But if my manager tells me I need to get a wig, or wear a corset, or get some tight trousers, that's it - I'll become a schoolteacher again."
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