extinguished he’s not worried about the legacy of ‘Every Breath You Take’, even if it’s somewhat related to Sean”Diddy” Comb forever.

In a new interview with Los Angeles Times published on Monday (November 11), the Police frontman was asked if his feelings towards his band’s iconic 1983 hit – which the Bad Boy Records founder famously sampled in his own ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ – now that Combs is on trial. for numerous allegations of sexual abuse, racketeering and more.

“No,” Sting began. “I mean, I don’t know what happened (to Diddy). But it doesn’t tarnish the song at all for me. It’s still my song.”

The original “Every Breath You Take” spent eight weeks at the top Billboard Hot 100 the year it came out and remains The Police’s only #1 hit on the charts. Fourteen years later, Diddy released “I’ll Be Missing You” as a tribute to the late Notorious BIG featuring Faith Evans and 112, featuring an interpolation of the Sting classic; it spent 11 weeks at number 1.

Diddy was arrested on September 16th on charges of abuse, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson and bribery, after which he was immediately arrested and repeatedly denied bail pending his May 5th trial 2025. The latest update on his case came on Friday (Nov. 8), when a judge rejected his “unprecedented” and “unwarranted” request for an injunction against his alleged victims and their attorneys on the grounds that they were making “inflammatory extrajudicial statements aimed at character assassination of Mr. Combs in the press.”

“The court has an affirmative constitutional duty to ensure that Combs receives a fair trial,” the judge wrote. “But this essential requirement … must be balanced against the protections the First Amendment affords to those who claim to be Combs’ victims.”

Sting, meanwhile, toured again as part of a trio with guitarist Dominic Miller and drummer Chris Maas, a setup similar to his three-man line-up with the Police’s Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland – and the We’ll Be singer Together”. is aware of the irony. “I never left the Police,” he said as he spoke to Times. “I’m not sure what I did. I just made a record – like everyone else had – and I enjoyed it more than I’ve ever been in a band.

“And here I am again,” he continued of getting back into shape. “My whole modus operandi is surprise. I don’t want people to be completely confident about what I’m going to do next. This is the essence of music to me. And no one expected a trio at this point.”