Sep 2, 2020
Bob Dylan, 1966 outtake from DA Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back in a new video for “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”, my edit of original via npr
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Bob Dylan, 1966 outtake from DA Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back in a new video for “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”, my edit of original via npr
Happy 60th Birthday Sting, Documentary Star
As a belated birthday tribute to Sting, who turned 60 Sunday, here are some clips of his many appearances in and involvements with documentary:
With The Police, performing "Roxanne" in Derek Burbidge's "Urgh! A Music War" (1980):
Performing "Message in a Bottle" in Roger Graef and Julien Temple's "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball":
Performing the title song (segueing into "When the World is Running Down") at the opening of Michael Apted's "Bring on the Night":
The version of "Why Should I Cry for You" from his soundtrack of "The Living Sea," along with underwater footage from Greg MacGillivray's IMAX film:
Singing on "Money for Nothing" (with Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton and Phil Collins) in Julia Knowles' concert film "Music for Montserrat":
A clip from MacGillivray's IMAX film "Dolphins," with narration from Pierce Brosnan and reworked music score by Sting:
His appearance in Doug Biro and Jon Fine's "Herbie Hancock: Possibilities," in which he just so happens to be wished a happy birthday:
His appearance in Stephen Kijak's "Scott Walker: 30 Century Man," listening and talking of Walker's "It's Raining Today." He shows up around 3:30, but you can enjoy others like David Bowie, Damon Albarn and members of Radiohead in similar testimonial footage:
Long trailer for Christina Pochmursky's "The Musical Brain," for which Sting "agreed to be a guinea pig" and have his brain scanned by an fMRI while he listens to music:
And there have been many, many more, including works by Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker, Kevin Macdonald, Patricia Arquette and Barry Levinson that I couldn't find proper clips from. Something I'm a big surprised about is that Sting's not in many non-concert-based humanitarian-cause documentaries.
As he said following the release of Joe Berlinger's "Crude," which features his wife, Trudie Styler: "She's on the front lines. Not me, though. I sing and help raise funds."