New Sting Album Revisits Winters Past
Former Police frontman tells how songs were inspired by his childhood U.K. home.
Dec. 11, 2009 — -- The cameras are waiting for the Englishman in New York.
The man of the hour is Sting, in this case arriving at a charity event at WNYC radio's the Greene Space in New York City. He's joined by his wife, Trudie Styler. He's been smitten with her for decades.
"You know, what I mean, you could say, 'I love Trudie,' but that's a given," Sting said. "I really like this woman. When she walks into the room, my world lights up."
Sting and Styler were at the Greene Space for a screening of "Twin Spirits," a movie the pair made in 2007 about Robert Schumann, the composer, and his wife, Clara Wieck.
"Nightline's" David Muir caught up with the couple at the screening. Sting talked about enduring love, winters past and life's changing seasons.
The couple met when the singer Gordon Sumner was just starting to call himself "Sting" and was topping the charts with The Police.
Sting's early days were recorded by Police drummer Stuart Copeland in his documentary "Everyone Stares." At the time, millions were staring -- and buying albums. The group has chalked up 40 million albums sold.
But the The Police had a short run. Their short fuses were legendary -- especially Sting's.
"He was impossible," Styler said of Sting in his early years.
But 30 years and four children later, the couple is still together. Styler isn't in the business -- she is a formidable human rights activist, now as director of the Rainforest Foundation.
In 1998, the couple's passion for one another made headlines when they first spoke of hours of tantric sex.
"Do you still get asked all these years later about the tantric sex?" Muir asked.
"Absolutely," said Sting.
"Including tonight," said Styler.
"We better get going, darling," said Sting. "We've got seven hours to put in before breakfast."
"Only seven?!" exclaimed Styler
They joke. But it's something Sting still takes seriously, to this day.
"People are fascinated by sex, of course they are," said Sting. "But the idea of tantra is slightly more complex ... And that can be the way we walk, the way we breathe, the way we eat, the way we relate to each other and certainly the way we make love."
Sting is also in town to promote his latest project -- one that seems most un-Sting-like.
