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Article: To be Sting for a day
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 24, 1996
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Word came through from the man at A&M Records; Sting fancied a
jam. Any interest? I'm used to this, obviously. Given my history
as former keyboards man with the legendary late-Eighties UK pop
combo, the Cleaners from Venus (two albums, one tour of Germany, no
hits and a messy inter- personal combustion), international rock
stars are on at me on virtually a daily basis to come out of
retirement and play with them. "Oh, go on, just for an hour," they
say, but I smile and say, quietly but firmly, "That's all in the past
now."
In Sting's case, though, maybe I would make an exception. I have
written a book called Lost in Music. It is the story, chiefly, of
the Cleaners from Venus's baffling ...