"Sting was staying in my apartment in London. We had just come back from Paris on an absolutely appalling little run. We didn’t get paid…but he had been walking around, seeing what in those days were called streetwalkers, and come up with this idea for the song. He was playing to himself on this nylon-string guitar in a little bossa nova rhythm. A few days later, we were rehearsing and a bit hard up for material… We said, “Well, what about that ‘Roxanne’ piece?” “We can’t do that, it’s bossa nov