Fool In Love - Last Exit - Sting

Rare audio from Last Exit, the Newcastle band Sting left when he sought (and found) fame in London.

[@zenpaganwarrior]

This is so mid-70s funky, with that porno soundtrack wah-wah guitar and cowbell funk beat. It's good!

[@Tubes12AX7k]

Reminds me a little bit of The Jackson 5

[@dkf4063]

Stewart obviously and ultimately filled up his emptiness

[@TheGalwayFarmer]

a lot of the Police's early songs were written in the last exit days. The Bed's Too Big Without You was written when he was still in Newcastle and married to Frances Tomlety

[@lauraidini4859]

SO LONELY

[@jabbahursty]

this is really good

[@jeremyhughes6485]

Well we would never have heard of Sting if he hadn’t met Stewart Copeland!

[@deanrane1961]

For real man. Stewart to the rescue!

[@xaviermartorivilardebo9089]

Probably not....and maybe very few had heard of Sting ang Stewart if Andy hadn't joined in....

[@markcoomber8222]

@@xaviermartorivilardebo9089 Yes. If Stewart had caught one London Underground train later it’d have been a different story.....

[@xaviermartorivilardebo9089]

@@markcoomber8222 or no story at all....

[@_6079SMITH]

Wish there was video footage of Last Exit with Sting singing.

[@Emelefpi]

Too bad he didn't salvage this song (with different, non 'So Lonely' lyrics) for later on in his career. It's really good tune and deserved more than the obscurity it's in now

[@Old-Skull.]

the thing is that this song is an earlier record of what finally we know as so lonely , its clear that this song was unfinished but you have the structure of so lonely ,and im not talking about lyrics if not music too , they just simplified the sound , change tempo and rythm , a song is something that is never finished it change with the times and mood of the musician who creates it , that is why you hear that famous musicians get bored and annoyed to play their most successful tune over and over , and sometimes they try to change it when they pley it live or simply dont play it at all remember they tried to create police as a punk band when they really were this , that is why they get these songs and make them audible for the punk scene of those days , sometimes even they got bosanova songs , and there is no way to convert that in punk , what they did , turn it into reggae and that was their recipe for succes cause while punk died quickly some kids like me just hallucinate with this new sound of this amazing group

[@jbrawnermusic]

this is amazing!! never take this off your channel please!

[@newaccount4143]

Tastes are different - one comment below preferred this version of the first song. I so much more prefer the Police version over this one. Listening to this ... Sting is so lucky that Stewart Copeland found him and recruited him away.

[@NotNotKenny]

This sounds like a version he would have performed after he left the Police.Not bad,but a boring arrangement.Imagine going to see him in concert expecting/wanting to hear The Police version and getting this.

[@SquirrelRave20]

Wow, I hadn't heard this before. Interesting.

[@PoliceBoy465]

Time for a Last Exit reunion.

[@xaviermartorivilardebo9089]

Good one.....Police reunión done...now more then 10 years later....Last exit reunion..then 10 years later the Phoenix Jazz band reunion....just to keep Sting busy.....

[@RichV20]

Gerry Richardson played on a Sting song from his 1996 balbum. But Im assuming everyone else from the band just did music parttime afterwrds or just quit

[@MrTimdriver]

Nice, nice song.

[@right-hand1388]

agahaaha SO LONELY

[@rickrisi]

it's actually a good recording, I expected a Last Exit demo to be rougher

[@birdman4274]

There's also a hint of "Come Down in Time" The Elton John song Sting sang on his album Two Rooms.

[@markmark5719]

With some additional string arrangement, it could have been a disco hit.

[@thornbird6768]

So lonely ❤

[@INNERSKIN]

so sweet !!!!

[@rcocenzo]

This is so amazing. I prefer this one!

[@stevencrawford3462]

Sting has never surpassed the acheivements with The Police mainly because, as can be heard here, he is very self-indulgent. Stu and Andy reigned him in all the time and got the best out of his songwriting.

[@user-jz3gv6up6i]

Sting has only surpassed 'The Police '. Read his autobiography.

[@guybeauregard]

Is Sting channeling some 1970s Van Morrison here? In any case, this is a pretty awesome obscurity!

[@AlfimAlves]

I’m hearing Van too, he was still finding is voice

[@hedgefundshyster..3241]

How about that for a bit of luck ..stewert Copeland an established famous musician was in town....to see an unknown band ...featuring a wannabe popstar with a voice good looks song writing ability and charisma...

[@wobblynoggin]

It all makes sense when Sting says that The Police went in a decidedly punk direction in the beginning. This version could be Air Supply.

[@margitouma6172]

Disco!

[@arnulfosalinas557]

I got years ago Strontium 90, the years before The Police adn Vídeo Magic: Police adn Eberhard Schroener.

[@sadetwizelve]

....THIS IS SO LONELY LOL

[@julesjwg]

I'm sure there's an awesome Last Exit version of I Burn For You out there....alot of Police songs were written by Sting way back

[@MrMikemillard1]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6K4h3tnqtN6r6s there you go

[@FernandoMorales-ft4pk]

tiene fragmentos en la letra de solonely

[@jamesmartin2740]

Good decision to join those other two guys.

[@sergijareno7559]

Un buen grupo de Sting antes de the police😃❤️

[@gabrielecaleca415]

Well someone told me yesterday That when you throw your love away You act as if you just don't care and look as if you're going somewhere But I just can't convince myself I couldn't live with no one else And I can only play that part And sit and nurse my broken heart I was a fool in love Too proud to learn my lesson Hoping you'ld alwayes stayed but i wasted my time away Somebody please Fill up my emptiness Vanish my loneliness Show me some tenderness and the warmth of your sweet caress Now no one's knocked upon my door For a thousand years or more All made up and nowhere to go Welcome to this one man show Just take a seat they're always free No surprise no mystery In this theatre that I call my soul I always play the starring role Im a fool in love Too proud to learn my lesson Hoping you'ld alwayes stayed but i wasted my time away Somebody please Fill up my emptiness Vanish my loneliness Show me some tenderness and the warmth of your sweet caress Now no one's knocked upon my door For a thousand years or more All made up and nowhere to go Welcome to this one man show Just take a seat they're always free No surprise no mystery In this theatre that I call my soul I always play the starring role I was a fool in love Too proud to learn my lesson Hoping you'ld alwayes stayed but i wasted my time away Somebody please Fill up my emptiness Vanish my loneliness Show me some tendernes and the warmth of your sweet caress Somebody please Fill up my emptiness Vanish my loneliness Show me some tenderness and the warmth of your sweet caress

[@vaportrails7943]

What this shows, is just how much more credit Stewart deserves than what he gets for the style of The Police. Sounds like the Doobie Brothers or Billy Joel doing disco. The kind of middlebrow, easy listening pop Sting slid back towards when he went solo. This was going nowhere.

[@Fearzero]

Yup not a fan of his solo work.

[@bentsound]

Listen to Klark Kent for more evidence of that! It's all Stewart Copeland playing all instruments and singing, it's basically the Police!

[@deseipel0076]

Are you high? This shows that Sting had the verses to "So Lonely" already completed prior to joining the Police. At the minimum, it illustrates Stings song writing process. It has zero to do with Copeland whatsoever...

[@ralphsmith3529]

So lonely!

[@jeniferallan6693]

Is this real? I am wide eyed 😮

[@mrbungle7586]

Not hard to hear Stings potential here. Easy to see why Stewart wanted him, and then why Andy thought Sting and Stewart had so much potential. Good 70s disco. 👍

[@twitchygiraffe4636]

Can’t think why one of his last exit bandmates from the mid 70’s didn’t try to sue him for plagiarisation?! Bit cheeky that!!!!

[@JFSCOTTJonny]

Causs Sting probably wrote most of them anyways!

[@punns643]

Because Sting wrote it Dumbo

[@jeniferallan6693]

Sting wrote the song...they just played instruments.

[@SeatLeonMK2]

Who is the drummer my god almost as good as stewart

[@thewomble1509]

The late Ronnie Pearson.

[@bikefixer]

This is a good tune, maybe even better "So Lonely."

[@tadsomato1940]

Motown

[@VUDUVOX]

That was before juming on the Punk bandwagon...

[@xaviermartorivilardebo9089]

Cool...but the versión in outlandos is sliiiiiiiiigtly better....hahaha.....

[@dogmart]

Sting is a notorious plagiarizer of himself. Does it all the time. Ha!

[@ivanbarria1714]

"plagiarizer of himself" ... what singer-songwriter would like to do that and with success¡¡¡

[@markkavanagh7377]

I'm gonna bet that drugs were involved in the transition from this to punky funky The Police!

[@Sylviefhima]

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