POLICE bassist and solo star Sting is working on a musical about his hometown of Newcastle.

The show, titled The Last Ship, will feature music and lyrics by Sting, along with a book by Brian Yorkey – a Pulitzer Prize - and Tony Award-winning playwright, according to NME.com.

“It’s Sting’s first foray into writing for musical theater, so we wanted to start having him meet actors and hear them sing at the earliest possible point,” Yorkey said. “I won’t say the score is complete, because the score’s not complete until God knows when. But he’s written a couple dozen, maybe 20, 24, amazing new songs for the show. He’s writing great theater music. It’s very, very distinctly Sting but it also is theater music. It’s not just pop music transposed into the theater.”

The Last Ship is set in the 1980s and characters include a priest and a former shipyard worker who becomes “an industrial titan.”