Posted on 11/24/2016 5:01:14 AM PST by Cecily
He has risen from an impoverished childhood to amass a huge fortune, but Sting said his success as a rock star left him uncomfortable living in Britain.
The ex-Police frontman, whose estimated wealth stands at £200 million, claimed he had to move to America because of jealousy back home.
'I'm more comfortable here [in New York]. I think I'm divisive in England', he said in an interview.
The 65-year-old, the son of a milkman and a hairdresser from Wallsend, North Tyneside, has lived in New York for decades.
He claimed he was more accepted in American society than in Britain because people could not handle the fact he has climbed up the social ladder.
'I don't really belong to a class any more, so it's better to be in a society like this, which is a little freer,' he said.
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I was lucky enough to see him play 3 nights in a row before he became famous, at a small club in D.C. called the 9:20 Club.
I recall an episode of the Osborne’s (Ozzy and family) where they were bashing Americans, and then a few minutes later talking about how they have 4 ovens in their kitchen which.. “We would have never been allowed to have in Britain”
I think the media needs to use coin-operated video cameras.
I have heart problems and I remember being in the hospital and having a 7 AM procedure done by my cardiologist. He was in my room again at 11 PM. A lot of these people work really, really hard.
I'm afraid I have to disagree.
For a while after we moved, I had to tune the radio to a country station because only the country stations around here have strong emitters (apparently). So I would wake up in the morning to some angry drunk in a bar singing about his relationship gone bad because she was a tramp. Soon after, I would complain to my husband that angry drunkards seemed to be the prevalent theme of country.
Hubby found a rock station that doesn't broadcast as strongly, but at least I am not waking up to angry singing drunkards any more. Now I wake up to a variety of subjects: Adele moping over breaking up with her boyfriend, Meghan Trainor celebrating her big butt, Nate Ruell questioning the Civil War from the perspective of a soldier, and a lot of just plain sappy love songs.
I think the 200 millions pounds is his cumulative wealth, not what he made in one year.
That was the first thing I thought. John Lennon moved to the US for the same reason, back when the tax rate in England was 95% (note the lyric from “The Tax Man” - “There’s 1 for you and 19 for me”).
Yet....Teachers want to be paid as much as cardiologists. When did they ever have pagers on their hip and were on-call 24/7?
Victorian society was of course, very rigidly organized with little social mobility, well-defined strata and strict social mores. Many of Holmes' observations and deductions were based on small deviations of behavior, dress or speech which violated those rules, and often provided the thread needed to unravel the mystery at hand.
Without the rigid social order and expected behavior, Holmes would have been nowhere near as successful in developing the investigative leads he did.
Sting's statement suggests to me that there are still remnants of that still at work in England.
That must have been a long time ago - it’s the 9:30 club now :)
lol
Yup,I understand that.The basic point I was trying to make was in regards to "priorities".Music can be wonderful but saving a person's life using the training you've received over 10+ years (which is how long it takes before some surgeons are qualified to hang out a shingle) is a whole different kettle of fish,IMO.
Hey,I've lived in New England all my life...maybe some of the Commie **** I've been exposed to is rubbing off on me! :-)
Europeans are still stuck in the Middle Ages.
Americans love to talk about their humble origins, how they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.
LOL, yeah it was the 9:30 Club then. Bad typist!!! 8>P
Dinesh D'Souza has a good perspective on this, because he became an American, moving here from India at the age of 16. So he remembers what it was like to be an Indian. He points out that you can't be French, go to Germany, and declare yourself a German...it just wouldn't work, and people would think you are odd. But you can come to America and declare yourself an American, and nobody even bats an eye.
He observes that from a democratization perspective, a secretary is just as likely to have dinner in a fancy restaurant as her wealthy boss. And in that restaurant, both she and her boss could (and sometimes do) both address the waiter as "Sir" as if he were British nobility.
Regardless of what the victim mentality whores in this country say, this is the most democratic country in the world with more room for each person to be whatever they want, and do whatever they want to do.
In this country, if you want to be a surfer, you can do that if you can make a living off of it, and nobody (except maybe the parents) will regard it as anything unusual. He told his parents he wanted to be a writer, and they thought he was going through some kind of childhood crisis (they being far more traditional than he)
But it was the quote from his uncle who said "I want to go to America, where even the poor people are fat!" that I really appreciated.
Yes, we have much to be thankful for today, and every day.
You’re right. Cowell always seemed completely baffled whenever a contestant got a Golden Ticket and was congratulated by thrilled friends and relatives. What do they do in England when someone has good fortune? Slap them across the face? Hopefully Cowell is not typical of this attitude.
I would argue that the talent set required to become a skilled performer is far more rare than the talent set to become a surgeon. And that skilled performers spend no less time honing their craft than a surgeon spends practicing his skills.
I do not begrudge talented performers their wealth. I am a little jealous of their talent, however.
Unfortunately envy is becoming a big problem here too.
Bono made an observation once about the difference between America and Ireland,,,He said that in the US the workers would walk past the owners mansion and say to themselves “someday I’ll have a place like that”,,In Ireland the workers trudge past the owners mansion and say “someday I’m gonna get that bastard”
Not only that but the years and years of training. 4 years of focused college, then 2 years of med school at Univ. of Mich, then on to University of Pittsburgh for years of surgical training, then a final two years at Mass. General hospital while in Harvard's thorasic surgery program.
I think he was approx. 38 years old when he was finally able to come home to the Detroit area and start his practice with Royal Oak Beaumont hospital........
I play senior softball with a liberal prick who constantly argues that doctors are nothing but overpaid hacks whose salaries should be regulated like they are in Canada. Of course he supports Obamacare.......
I apologize for getting off topic but whenever I get into discussions about the healthcare in the US vs. Canada, I point out to them the number of facilities here in the metro Detroit area which conduct MRI's and how a person can get one done literally within a week with just a prescription from their doctor as compared to the scarcity of facilities right across the river in Ontario where they literally have to wait for months depending on the severity of the illness or injury.......
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