From Chris Robinson: I know 'Don't Stand So Close to Me' takes some influence from Nabakov's 'Lolita' but is there SOME autobiographical influence? After all, you were a teacher.
Sting: ...absolutely not! How dare you?
From Mr Showbiz Celebrity Lounge Webchat transcript [1995], I am surprised by Sting’s apparent indignation over the question when the song’s content and the idea that he was a teacher could lead many people to that possible conclusion if they weren’t privy to the contents of his mind. Surely being a perceptive man, this might have occurred to him but then perhaps he was just in a mood when he did this particular interview. Perhaps it was just that CAPS have a way of being curiously accusatory and he reacted to this …
From Chris Robinson: I know 'Don't Stand So Close to Me' takes some influence from Nabakov's 'Lolita' but is there SOME autobiographical influence? After all, you were a teacher.
Sting: ...absolutely not! How dare you?
From Mr Showbiz Celebrity Lounge Webchat transcript [1995], I am surprised by Sting’s apparent indignation over the question when the song’s content and the idea that he was a teacher could lead many people to that possible conclusion if they weren’t privy to the contents of his mind. Surely being a perceptive man, this might have occurred to him but then perhaps he was just in a mood when he did this particular interview. Perhaps it was just that CAPS have a way of being curiously accusatory and he reacted to this …