Sting autobiography brazil jungle drink
Featuring color photographs by Belgian film-maker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, it chronicles Sting's growing interest in the Brazilian rain forest..
The friendship Sting established with chief Raoni and other members of the Kaiapo Indian tribe in Brazil in the course of his rain-forest work.
The following article by Neil Wilson appeared in a May 1989 issue of the Australian newspaper The Advertiser...
Message beyond music - Sting finds fulfilment as a supporting act.
Sting looks drawn and tired, showing the fatigue of a man carrying a lot on his shoulders and more on his mind.
He is into the fourth month of a world tour in which the famous rasping voice which once fronted The Police will not hit a note, if you don't count the note of caution his message brings.
This tour is part of a wider journey for the pop idol of 1979, who has arrived in Australia in 1989 as a reflective father of four nudging middle age.
He arrives as an environmentalist with a message he claims is too serious for music.
Sting is the support act for the tribal leader of the Amazon Kayapo nation, Raoni, who is on a mission to save his people and the remaining areas of rainforest which surround them in the Brazilian jungle.
Those dark forests, which have been called "the lungs of t