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During the recording sessions, bass player Darryl Jones introduced Sting to Davis, who was an idol of his. Sting was startled when Davis asked if he spoke French; after he said yes, Davis asked him to translate the Miranda warning into French and yell it into the microphone against a backing track. [5]
- He Was A Teacher For Two Years
- His Popularity Caused Tension in The Police
- He Decided to Leave The Police at The Secret Policeman’S Ball
In the years between discovering The Beatles and becoming a pop star himself, Sting was briefly Mr. Sumner, a teacher at a Newcastle junior school. “I taught everything,” he says. “Maths, bit of reading, bit of poetry, bit of art, bit of football. I would sit and play music to them. I’d play the guitar and teach them songs. I enjoyed that more than...
Sting joined The Police in 1977. “It was just happenstance. I met Stuart Copeland [the band's drummer]… in Newcastle and he said, ‘If you’re ever in town, give me a call.’ That led to being in what was the biggest band in the world at one point.” The Police only recorded together for a little over five years (they officially disbanded in 1986). Sti...
Sting says that his decision to leave the band was made when he was invited to play solo at The Secret Policeman’s Ball, a benefit show for Amnesty International, in 1986. “They just wanted me to sing a song on my own with a guitar,” he says. “I performed Roxanne and Message In A Bottle… alone, just with a guitar and my voice. It was the moment tha...
The result was an album of great contrasts: popular songs, a solo by John Scofield used as the theme song, the alternation of Al Foster and Vince Wilburn, Jr., the return of John McLaughlin, and an opening sketch “One Phone Call/Street Scenes” with the voices of Sting and Marek Olko (a Polish promoter who had tried to arrange a tour for ...
In jazz circles, You’re Under Arrest has gained instant notoriety as the album on which Miles Davis plays, among other things, tunes associated with D Train, Cyndi Lauper and Michael...
You’re Under Arrest is Miles Davis' most vocal album. Through interpolations of Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson, and other popular moguls of his time, the trumpeter makes many political...
Human Nature 3. Intro: MD 1/Something's On Your Mind/MD 2 4. Ms. Morrisine 5. Katia Prelude 6. Katia 7. Time After Time 8. You're Under Arrest Featuring Sting 9. Medley: Jean Pierre/You're Under Arrest/Then There Were None.
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You're Under Arrest, an Album by Miles Davis. Released in April 1985 on Columbia (catalog no. FC 40023; Vinyl LP). Genres: Jazz Fusion, Smooth Jazz. Rated #1135 in the best albums of 1985.
