The following article appeared in an October 1987 issue of The Courier Mail , an Australian newspaper. The author was Mark Sexton.
Sting still has mountains to climb.
That moody sex symbol Sting, one time lead singer of the Police and now a Solo Superstar admitted by thousands of women in a recent poll to be their dream fantasy love wants to develop the less macho and gentler side of his nature. It was the blue turtles rampaging through the ordered garden of his Hampstead house that persuaded Sting to leave the Police. Pop superstar Sting believes so much in his dreams and what they mean he keeps a notebook by his bed so that he can record what he has dreamt about before it fades. Police had reached an assured place and everything was safe and secure. But as a creative person security is the worst thing you can have.