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FELBERG REAL LIFE STORIES

Sting

A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

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FELBERG REAL LIFE STORIES

RYSZARD WOLAŃSKI

Sting

A short biography

Translation and glossary by

Aldona Stepaniuk

Warsaw 2002

Series Editor

Adam Wolañski

Reviewer

Zbigniew Mazur

Copy editor

Natica Schmeder

Production editor

Barbara Gluza

Cover designer

Andrzej-Ludwik Wïoszczyñski

DTP

A.L.W. GRAFIK

Acknowledgements

All illustrations in this publication reproduced by

courtesy of Universal Music Polska.

stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means,

electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,

without the prior written permission of the Publisher.

Printed in Poland

ISBN 83-88667-17-3

INTRODUCTION

He once confessed that the only person who ever

addressed him by his real name was his mother. His wife,

ex-wife, and even his children call him Sting. He has always

had a nickname. For instance, they called him Lurch in

primary school. Apparently, with his height and behaviour, he

resembled a character from the Addams Family. In his later

school days, when writing and speaking backwards was in

fashion, friends used to call him Noddy. Noddy is short for

Nodrog, and Nodrog is his real name spelt backwards.

How did he come to be called Sting? An interesting

story, that. Or stories, as there are more than one! Which

of them is true, he is not even sure himself anymore.

Jazz musicians have always liked nicknames. Take Louis

Armstrong. His nickname was Satchmo—from the word

satchelmouth , because some people said his lips were satchel-

shaped. Lester Young, the saxophone virtuoso, was nicknamed

Pres, from president . Charlie Parker was simply called Bird.

The young double bass player in the Newcastle band Phoenix

Jazzmen was christened Sting by his fellow musicians because

he looked like a wasp in his black-and-yellow striped sweater.

Another version of the origin of this nickname is that during

one of their concerts the Phoenix Jazzmen noticed their

bass player was making very odd, expressive movements.

Strangely enough, the movements didn’t seem to go with

the rhythm of the slow-moving, sad jazz ballad they were

currently performing. The reason was not the musician’s

artistic ecstasy, and it was soon revealed. There was a

wasp in his trouser leg. From then on, the young man was

called Sting.

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