STING WHAT I KNOW NOW
As a kid, Sting dreamt of a more glamorous life than the humble one offered in Wallsend, his shipyard town in north-east England. “They would get a famous celebrity to launch a ship, and I remember seeing the Queen Mother in her Rolls-Royce at the age of 8 and thinking, ‘Why can’t I have that life?’ ” says the music icon, 68. “I suppose that’s what fed my ambition to escape.”
Sting (born Gordon Sumner) became the leader of the new-wave band the Police and later a solo artist, with 17 Grammy Awards to his name,. Sting stars in and wrote the music for the show, which is touring the States. “I’m very passionate about this project,” says Sting. “It’s been one of the greatest adventures of my life.” In May he’ll start a Las Vegas residency, . “The doctor told me the other day, ‘Always assume that you’ve only lived half your life,’” Sting recalls. “I said, ‘Well, OK, then when I die, I’ll be 150.’ You just have to stay creative. In my head I’m only 15.” The father of six – who has been married to actress Trudie Styler, 66, for 27 years – shares with WHO some lessons he’s picked up over four decades of stardom.
