Feb 222010
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“I am well aware of the Uzbek president’s appalling reputation in the field of human rights as well as the environment. I made the decision to play there in spite of that. I have come to believe that cultural boycotts are not only pointless gestures, they are counter-productive, where proscribed states are further robbed of the open commerce of ideas and art and as a result become even more closed, paranoid and insular.”
Is it possible that the Bearded Sting has gone rogue? I could see this leading to the Four Stings turning on each other.
Sting must not have seen this old SCTV bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hCCCRAcTAA
I hear Kim Jog Il’s daughter likes the lute too.
Her dad may be boiling his enemies, but Sting must find Gulnara Karimova boiling h-o-t!
Uzbeks are the New Jerseyites of Asia.
Ergo, Sting is making a play at being the Bruce Springsteen of Asia.