And the Welcome everyone and thanks for joining us for episode 140 of soda jaker on songwriting.

This is Simon here with Brian and what a guest we have for you.

Joining us today is one of the all-time great an English musician, singer and songwriter who to date has sold over a

hundred million records.

He's a songwriters and rock and roll halls of fame inductee, Ivan Novello Lifetime Achievement

Award winner, Kennedy Center Honorary, Polar Music Prize winner and a CBE.

He's also an Emmy Golden Globe and 17 time Grammy winner, a three time Oscar nominee and he has a star on the

Hollywood Walk of Fame. We are absolutely delighted to welcome to the show

The One and Only Sting. Just a few weeks ago Sting released My Songs,

a collection of new renditions of some of his best-known

tracks, and we had the great honor of visiting him at his London apartment to discuss that and

much more.

As we record this, it's about a fortnight since we met him and I still

conquer over it to be honest. No me neither. I mean we've been doing this show a

long time now but I don't think the experience of meeting these

legendary figures will ever get old and it's crazy that somehow this thing we thought of doing one afternoon at home in Liverpool lets us go around to Sting's place.

But yeah, we've been admirers of the man's work since we were in our early teens, haven't we?

Yeah, I was just starting to learn the bass back then and I think Stings' bass lines are among the first ones I ever learned to play.

Ten-Sumnus tales in particular was a massive album for us too, wasn't it?

Yeah, I still don't think that record gets the respect it's due.

As successful as it was at the time, you know, it's just fantastic, does not put a foot wrong. Our guest was born Gordon Sumner in

Wals End, Northumberland, northeast England in 1951. He grew up near the Wals End

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