Feel the love!
Feel the love for Sting!
Oh, I love you, bud.
Welcome back to the show.
Sting, you should feel like home here.
You've been here a bunch of times.
Do you remember doing warm-up here one night?
Yeah, I do.
One night, this is a true story.
We were doing late night, maybe?
Yeah, late night.
Late night, and I forget who the guests were, even, to be honest.
We were just getting ready for the show and all of a sudden I heard someone that sounded like Sting warming up the audience.
I came out.
It was you and The Roots singing Every Breath You Take.
And the audience was like, what's going on?
And then you left.
That was my audition.
Did you get the part?
No, I didn't.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I love having you here.
I know you're a New Yorker.
You've been in New York City a long time now.
Since 1979.
Wow.
What do you remember when you first came here?
What was your first impression of the city?
Oh, I played a gig at CBGB's.
I did three nights, three sets at CBGB's.
I just landed at JFK about six in the evening.
And after the second set, it was like three in the morning.
But for me, it was...
Yeah.
Beyond.
So I went for a cup of coffee down the street to Phoebe's on the Bowery and I only had enough money for one cup of coffee.
I was finishing my cup of coffee, and the waitress was about to give me another cup.
I said, please, no, I can't afford another cup.
She said, honey, this is New York City.
The second cup is always free.
I said, I'm moving here right now.
The second cup is always free.
I love that.
It's true, right?
Yeah, it is.
You're also back on tour now.
Sting 3.0 tour.
Congratulations, by the way.
It's around the world.
It's worldwide.
You're going to Australia, I saw.
But then you're doing something very cool here.
You're coming back to the North American dates.
You're doing a six-night residency at the Brooklyn Paramount.
Let's go.
Come on.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
It's a beautiful theater.
I've never been.
It's been refurbished to Mecca.
It really is gorgeous.
I worked there last year and couldn't wait to get back.
Wow.
And what are you doing?
Are you doing all the hits?
You're doing new stuff?
What are you doing?
I have nothing but hits.
I know.
No, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I could.
Of course you do.
I could sing every single one.
I love you so much.
I do want to talk about your newest hit, The Last Ship.
Congratulations on this.
This is a big deal.
You came on the show when this was on Broadway, and now you're going to the Metropolitan Opera.
You're taking it to the opera.
Yeah.
Did you ever see it playing at the opera?
Well, you know, it's about a shipyard.
I come from a shipyard town in the north of England.
And a shipyard, if you've ever been, has an operatic scale.
So the only place you can really reproduce a ship It's on that stage in the Metropolitan Opera.
So we've done that.
And your pal Shaggy is co-starring with you in this play.
I mean, how fun.
He's playing a sort of spiritual character.
Some people can see him, some people can't.
But he brings such a twinkle.
He has a twinkle in his eye and such mischief.
Yeah.
It's wonderful.
I love what the idea of The Last Ship is.
And I feel like, in a weird way, it's a little more relevant now than it's ever been.
It's about my community that the shipyard was closed by the government, and the shipyard gave everyone their identity, including me.
So when it was gone, there was nothing to do.
So I think we're all in the same situation now with AI threatening our livelihood.
We could all be replaced by a robot.
Not you, of course.
I certainly could.
Thank you very much.
I feel that threat is there.
That threat is still there.
So I think people will relate to how we as a community deal with it.
It's beautiful.
The songs are fantastic.
And you're going to be performing tonight with Shaggy.
And it's mind blowing.
You guys are going to love it and fall in love with it.
Thank you for doing this and always showing up.
You're the greatest.
I do have to confess to you something.
I've always wanted to do a duet with you.
Really?
I thought maybe, finally, I have my own show.
Maybe tonight we could finally do it.
Could I choose the song?
Absolutely, sure.
What song are you thinking?
It's a song that I sang with a friend of mine in a church once.
The priest was present and I had to warn the priest that the lyrics were slightly risque but that the song actually in the end was a morality tale.
And so it went something like this.
Can you give me an A major chord?
Here.
Like this?
Honey came and she caught me red-handed, creeping with the girl next door.
Picture this, we were both buck naked, banging, banging, banging, banging on the bathroom floor.
I'm glad you had that line and not me.
How could I forget that I had given her an extra key?
One time she was standing there.
She never took her eyes off me.
But you caught me on the counter.
It wasn't me.
Saw her banging on the sofa.
It wasn't me.
I even had her in the shower.
It wasn't me.
She even caught me on camera.
It wasn't me.
Saw the marks on my shoulder.
It wasn't me.
Heard the words that I told her.
It wasn't me.
Heard the scream getting louder.
It wasn't me.
Stayed until it was over.
-♪.
It wasn't me, it wasn't me.
It wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me.
It wasn't me.
It wasn't me.
It wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me.
