Despite the fact that before he became
Sting plain old
Gordon Sumner was
an
english teacher, this song is apparently a work of complete
fantasy
(a claim which is probably borne out by the fact that none of the
pupils he
taught has ever claimed to have had an
affair with him). As quoted in
Q Magazine in
1993:
"I was a teacher but I never had a relationship with any of my pupils, I
wouldn't want to. You have to remember we were blond bombshells at the time
[the track was released]
and most of our fans were young girls so I started role playing a bit.
Let's exploit that. And it really worked. You know that single sold a
million copies in Britain. A million. Imagine that now?"