Sting: My Geordie accent only comes out when I'm angry

Sting tells Andrew Marr how going back to his roots helped relieve his writer's block.

Speaking on the programme, Sting revealed he hadn't been able to write anything for eight years.

He said when he want back to his roots and wrote about the community in the North East, speaking in someone else's voice "relieved him of that paralysis".

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