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Sting replied, "I've used that terrible, terrible rhyme technique a few times." [7] Before joining the Police, Sting had previously worked as an English teacher. He referred to the song's story progression as "the teacher, the open page, the virgin, the rape in the car, getting the sack." [7]
The music video portrays Sting as a primary school teacher (his day job prior to pursuing a music career), who performs amidst his students' artwork. The artwork was supplied by students at Latchmere Junior School, Kingston-upon-Thames, in the United Kingdom.
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor.He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986.
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Called Sting 3.0, the trio’s tour draws on Sting’s decades of songs as a solo artist and as the frontman of the Police, the wildly popular three-piece he formed in London in 1977 after a stint ...
Sting sings lead vocals on the song, which he described as "up and down, strange, high-pitched singing." [4] "Dead End Job", the B-side of "Can't Stand Losing You", is based on a riff Copeland wrote in high school. [5] Sting's lyrics describe being a teacher (which he was, before joining the Police) as a dead-end job.
John Melandro, a third- and fifth-grade teacher at Tangier Smith Elementary School in Mastic, told The Post on Tuesday he had no idea he was even nominated for the prestigious Milken Educator ...
On 25 September 1976, [12] while on tour with the British progressive rock band Curved Air in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England, the band's American drummer, Stewart Copeland, met and exchanged phone numbers with ambitious singer-bassist Gordon Sumner, a.k.a. Sting, [13] who at the time was playing in a jazz-rock fusion band called Last Exit. [14]