Cygnia Posted April 15, 2019 Report Share Posted April 15, 2019 11 minutes ago, Michael Hopcroft said: It's the difference between a teenage fantasy and an awful reality. Did Sting know someone who experienced that? Did he experience it himself? (He was a schoolteacher before his music career took off, after all.) Quote Before joining The Police, Sting had previously worked as an English teacher. Sting said of the song in 1981: I wanted to write a song about sexuality in the classroom. I'd done teaching practice at secondary schools and been through the business of having 15-year-old girls fancying me – and me really fancying them! How I kept my hands off them I don't know... Then there was my love for Lolita which I think is a brilliant novel. But I was looking for the key for eighteen months and suddenly there it was. That opened the gates and out it came: the teacher, the open page, the virgin, the rape in the car, getting the sack, Nabokov, all that.[4] — Sting, L'Historia Bandido, 1981 Michael Hopcroft 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2019 Still slightly less creepy than "Every Breath You Take". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 15, 2019 Report Share Posted April 15, 2019 AIUI "Every Breath You Take" was intended by Sting to be about a stalker, and he was mortified when people interpreted it as romantic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted April 18, 2019 Report Share Posted April 18, 2019 On 4/15/2019 at 1:14 PM, Old Man said: AIUI "Every Breath You Take" was intended by Sting to be about a stalker, and he was mortified when people interpreted it as romantic. Don't some people still insist on playing it at wedding receptions? That shows a distinct lack of clue. I'm trying to think if there is anything that dark in his extensive solo catalog. Perhaps "Mad about You" might qualify. So would "I Burn For You", from the soundtrack to Brimstone and Treacle in which he starred. And don't forget he ended up giving up acting after a disastrous Broadway run in The Threepenny Opera playing the thoroughly loathsome Macheath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 Chicago Transit Authority was released 50 years ago today. Unreal. Ternaugh and Armory 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 What was the cause of its imprisonment ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 2 hours ago, death tribble said: What was the cause of its imprisonment ? Trademark Infringement (the band had to cut the T.A. out of its name in the face of legal action from the City). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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