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The Documentary: This Cultural Life: Sting

This Cultural Life: Sting

04/01/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - The Documentary, This Cultural Life: Sting

Sting reveals the experiences and influences that shaped his songwriting

Sting reveals the experiences and influences that shaped his songwriting.

As leader of rock band The Police, and as a multiple-Grammy winning solo artist, Sting has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide over his four decade career. In conversation with John Wilson, Sting explores some of the people and places that helped shape his creativity. 

He recalls his working class upbringing in the Tyneside shipbuilding communities, and how hearing The Beatles inspired his musical ambitions as a child. Sting explains why, at the height of their international success, he split The Police in the mid-eighties. He also reveals how jazz inspired his new musical direction as a solo artist.

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