Sting Interview (Summerhouse, 1980)

Sting lead singer with The Police talks about spending time in Ireland and how he got his nickname. This interview features clips ('The Bed's Too Big Without You' and 'Can't Stand Losing You') from one of their Miami concerts in 1979.
I noticed that there are not few interviews from that time (Zenyatta Mondatta), so I decided to post here. Enjoy!
This episode of ‘Summerhouse’ was broadcast on 8 July 1980. The reporter is Áine O’Connor. All rights reserved to RTÉ Television.

[@thegrimyeaper]

Refreshing seeing someone actually answering "it's a tax haven" instead of lying.

[@nadiam2853]

“I’d like to go on as long as possible” and here he is still touring at almost 72

[@moniquedenouden9289]

Yes but The Police didn’t last 😉

[@wrldchamps04]

He would never have been happy staying within that Musical box....as good as it was to the world ​@moniquedenouden9289

[@Auntkekebaby]

He's very shy.

[@elsabewium4450]

Oh my word, such a beautiful man !!! At age of 72, still gorgeous !!!

[@ceanefelixdeoliveira7729]

Love this voice.

[@kmm2442]

I just love this version of him.

[@IrishGuyReacts]

Nice find. And nice honesty from Sting about stardom. "Many disadvantages but all out weighed by the advantages."

[@ultramet]

Anyone else at this show in Miami in 1979?…Gusman theater. I knew they would big but never to this level. Phenomenal group and tremendous video. Thanks.

[@tkshots]

i was 16 that year,i went back to school after lunch when someone said they just saw sting somewhere uptown...it was big news,i didn't know whether to believe it or not...at the time,for me,the police were not just the best band,they were special...i don't remember what i "learned" in school that day,but i remember that

[@ImpartiallySpeaking]

Copeland. Half man - half machine!

[@Bonbontango]

he left teaching job but still educate world I respect him

[@SS-qg9jk]

Thank you for the video! Sting was and is such a sexy man!

[@luzpueblalara4128]

Always, I love his feline look

[@breatheeasily4013]

@@luzpueblalara4128 Feline? Hahahhaha

[@thornbird6768]

He drips sex appeal and is very good looking 🥰❤️

[@luzpueblalara4128]

Yes, he kinda looks like a cat or a lion, specially with longer hair 😍

[@a1s1inn]

@@luzpueblalara4128he is stunning🥰

[@kennethmood535]

great music

[@stpaulimdog]

I bet that writing he did made itself onto Ghost in the Machine. One of their greatest albums.

[@thewomble1509]

Invisible Sun must have been written while he was taking his sabbatical there.

[@dancarter482]

@@thewomble1509 It was, he says so in his book.

[@leejones8485]

Clever guy is Sting top bloke

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

Great interview with amazing live footage. Well done.

[@nomchowski8297]

He ended up in NYC, Tuscany, and probably a dozen other estates all over the globe he doesn't tell the media about so he doesn't get bothered there lol.

[@Auntkekebaby]

I've seen him in NYC several times. People don't bother him here as far as I saw.

[@eamoncoyle8780]

Sting is the best.

[@maritou2360]

il était bien mignon!! j'aime son grain de beauté!!

[@christinescarff4920]

Blimey , my mother’s family moved to Yorkshire from Laois ( ironically called ‘ Queens County ‘ ) at the time of the English engineered Irish potato ‘ famine ‘.

[@thewomble1509]

That 's not unusual. It was leave or starve to death thanks to the English Conservative Landlords. My Great Gran was from Wexford and went to Liverpool.

[@stefanoripari1816]

Stewart COPELAND Great drummer

[@stpaulimdog]

Especially his symbol work. Not many drummers can coordinate the hands and feet the way he can.

[@kingcassius2586]

You'd think he would've been completely bald by the 90s.

[@darrenhenderson3]

He did shave his hair in 96-97

[@Fearzero]

@David Michaels For sure. He's a vain dude.

[@severinocicerchia7668]

His hairline is pretty bad here

[@robertk2007]

He ended up settling in NYC

[@ImpartiallySpeaking]

He was living in a house in cork at one stage

[@robertk2007]

@@ImpartiallySpeaking tax exile

[@ImpartiallySpeaking]

@@robertk2007 I think you’re right. Definitely during the early 80s but not any more. Now he’s paying millions of pounds in tax every year which is more than can be said for most of them.

[@robertk2007]

@@ImpartiallySpeaking he lives in NYC where our taxes are extremely low here in the US

[@brianbozo2447]

Not exactly a place to go for peace and quiet. Maybe the high tempo life of Galway became too much and he elected to go to the quiet, almost forgotten backwater called New York .

[@jacobmccarthy1171]

I never realized that he had a receding hairline even when he was young!!

[@jjhofstra5956]

swimming is taxing, when you've filled the POOLs in...

[@Eli-cq8jq]

Wow! So how did you get that?

[@patriciausa3588]

Sting is so very hot and smart! This is why women love him and men are so jealous.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@jjhofstra5956]

His mannerisms are very seductive....maybe even calculated.......men feel threatened because its effective...

[@terrypeart3875]

@@jjhofstra5956 *effeminate

[@SUP3RKAPON]

@@terrypeart3875 who cares? His "effiminates" mannerisms really affect your fragile masculinity...

[@terrypeart3875]

@@SUP3RKAPON *French Your opinion doesn’t count.

[@i.p.knightley6970]

Sting: half man, half wasp.

[@mikaelsjoberg1894]

in close up pictures you can se that he kind of looks like a young Morrisey round the mouth , chin and nose.......Irish ey?

[@fidelove2125]

I .s t m.y .... G.R.E.A.T STING .. Horacio -

[@ajs41]

Sting never had much of a Newcastle accent.

[@pam164]

He did im a geordie but he was a posh geordie

[@ajs41]

@@pam164 Interesting, thanks.

[@pam164]

@Wid Eye Not all Geordies are broad im not and know plenty the same, we all don't talk like Jimmy Nail!

[@herrbonk3635]

@@pam164 Can you be "posh" with a working class background like Sting? I know he made a class journey/travel, but still. Asking for a friend :)

[@pam164]

@herrbonk3635 No, but you can act it and talk it, like he does.

[@thewomble1509]

fun fact: Sting left the republic after getting threats from the Provos. They took exception to his politics and his customary inability to avoid pontificating. some of us think the Provo's were far too tolerant.

[@jasonlefler3456]

In other words, freedom of speech, just watch what you say. How insecure are the Provos that they can’t handle a different opinion?

[@thewomble1509]

@@jasonlefler3456 I'm not against freedom of speech Jason. I was just reporting on a situation that happened over thirty years ago. Calm down pet.

[@jasonlefler3456]

@@thewomble1509 I was referring to the Provos, not you. Maybe read for content next time.

[@thewomble1509]

@@jasonlefler3456 Or, word you post more specifically you narky get.

[@jasonlefler3456]

@@thewomble1509 It was perfectly specific. You just jumped to conclusions and resorted to ad hominem attacks, which is usually a sure sign that you’ve lost an argument.

[@joesmith9216]

Sting is a WHITE GOD, I am serious, WORSHIP STING.

[@maxoconnor5087]

Wtf

[@joesmith9216]

@@maxoconnor5087 LUCIFER