. >> liberte, egalite, actualite. ♪ >> ♪ roxanne you don't have to put on the red light those days are♪ >> he has been making hits since the 1970's as the police, and later as a solo artist. now, as he reaches his 70th birthday, musician, singer-songwriter, racist, actor, and -- bassist, actor, and activist is celebrating with his hits. >> ♪ if this love cannot see the reason then at best you can be sure is this love you must surrender if it's love that' true ♪ >> hello, sting. let's talk about what france means to you. sting: i have been coming here since the 1970's. it is only 20 miles across the sea, but there is something about france which is so different to english culture. to me, it is exotic, and i like french food. i like french history, french music, movies. >> your album was written during the pandemic. how did covid-19 affect it? sting: i would say not much, because it just moved me out of my cycle, you know? i was in the middle of a tour. the pandemic cut my tour in half. when i was forced to go home, i said, ok, i will just move the cycle of my work. i will now work in th

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> liberte egalite actualite. ♪ ♪ ♪ ñgnç 12/20/21 12/20/21 [captioning made possible by democracyn and we need to act urgently. we are seeing a substantial rise in the number of cases in a way we have not seen beasley. amy: the covid-19 omicron variant is raging across the country and the world. the united states is now averaging over 130,000 new covid cases a day, nearly double the