Playboy Interview: Sting
November, 1985
Playboy Interview: StingWhen you're a skinny English kid with a name like Gordon Sumner, living near the docks in Newcastle, a poor coal and shipbuilding town, it's only natural to yearn for a little glamor, a little excitement. So, lugging your first guitar, your young wife and your new baby, you head off to London with a new name--they call you Sting, because you wear yellow-and-black pullovers--and form a rock-'n'-roll band. It's been written before.Not many years later, your band, The Police...