Sting Sings ‘Russians’ for Ukraine Refugees in Rare Performance: ‘I Never Thought It Would Be Relevant Again’
usmagazine.comSpeaking out. Sting returned to a 1985 song that he hoped would no longer be needed more than 30 years later.“I’ve only rarely sung this song in the many years since it was written, because I never thought it would be relevant again,” the 70-year-old told fans in a video via Instagram on Saturday, March 5. “But, in the light of one man’s bloody and woefully misguided decision to invade a peaceful, unthreatening neighbor, the song is, once again, a plea for our common humanity.”The song, simply titled “Russians,” was first released as a single from The Dream of the Blue Turtles, his first solo album after breaking away from his band, The Police.
It was among his highest charting songs in the first decade of his solo career.In Saturday’s video, Sting concluded, “For the brave Ukrainians fighting against this brutal tyranny and also the many Russians who are protesting this outrage — despite the threat of arrest and imprisonment – We, all of us, love our children.
Stop the war.”The Only Murders in the Building actor launched into a live version of the song, recorded along with cellist Ramiro Belgardt.
His caption included an address to send supplies to Ukrainian refugees in Poland as well as information hotlines and a link to Help Ukraine.The England native, who has been married to wife Trudie Styler since 1992, wrote the song amid the Cold War, which didn’t end until 1991.
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