Sting had no intention of recording The Bridge, at least not in the time frame he did.
In 2019, the experienced multi-hyphenate reinterpreted some of his own songs for My Songs, and in early 2020, he set sail with his musical The Last Ship, with his own tour dates on the horizon. Of course, the pandemic ruined such plans, forcing Sting to return to the drawing board.
Sting, sitting in front of a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting in his New York City residence, tells Billboard through Zoom, “It put me off my cycle.”
“For me it’s all about being surprised,” Sting says of The Bridge, which he co-produced with his management and Cherrytree Music Company CEO Martin Kierszenbaum.
With plans for a global tour in 2022, Sting performed “Rushing Water” and “If It’s Love” during his recent residency in Las Vegas, which he followed up with some gigs in Europe earlier this fall.
