"I had thought of naming the album 'The Lovers' after 'Les Amants', as an homage to Jacques Brel." In the large west Parisian studio in which he is completing his album, (ultimately Brand New Day), Sting summits himself, Zen, to the professional task. Lucid and cultivated, he discusses, in short sentences, his musical choices, his engagements, his wants, dropping names of French artists and Latin terms... Later, he adds: "I'll be 50 in two and a half years. That's something I'll be quite 'proud' of:" He can be. Sting is engaging in a very "classy" second half-century...