Sting, 73, on Sting 3.0 tour, leaving the Police, keeping fans guessing, playing Las Vegas
Sting, who found fame in the late 70s with the Police, talks about playing in a three-piece band again, Billy Joel and staying healthy at 73
Sting sits in a trailer at the Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California, with two important questions before him: which songs to perform during that night’s headlining set and which pair of underwear to do it in.
“I’m not sure what colour to wear,” he says, nodding towards a rainbow of Calvin Klein boxer-briefs arrayed on a counter. Dressed in tight black jeans and a form-fitting white T-shirt, the 73-year-old musician holds a set list he figures he will keep fiddling with until right before he goes on.
“We always front-load it with hits and end with hits,” he says. “But the middle is kind of fluid. Keeps it fresh.”
One reason that is easy to do is because, after years in which Sting busied himself with orchestral concerts and a Broadway musical and a residency in Las Vegas, the singer and bassist is on the road with just two other musicians – guitarist Dominic Miller and drummer Chris Maas.
Called Sting 3.0, the tour draws on Sting’s decades of songs as a solo artist and as the frontman of the Police, the wildly popular three-piece he formed in London in 1977 after a stint teaching English.
Sting – who with his wife, Trudie Styler, divides his time between homes in Europe, New York and Malibu – here talks about the concept behind his current US tour and whether he would ever consider cosmetic surgery.
