Sting isn’t very impressed with Simon Cowell’s reality singing competition show, The X Factor. The Brit rocker recently told London’s Evening Standard: “It is a soap opera which has nothing to do with music. In fact, it has put music back decades.”Although The X Factor has already produced an international ...
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-Sting's ode to the season of winter, If On A Winter's Night will come out October 26th on Deutsch Gramophone. Besides wintry carols and lullabies, it will also include a musical reworking of Schubert's Der Leiermann from Winterreise and an older song that was on 1996's Mercury Rising, The Hounds of Winter. No word thus far on his feelings for the actor, Alex Winter.-Idolator's headlines ha
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MUSIC NEWS - Sting has announced plans to release his new album this fall, and it's dedicated to his favorite season, winter, according to the news on his site. "If On A Winter's Night ..." is said to feature a collection of songs, carols and lullabies, along with two original tunes (Lullaby for an Anxious Child and The Hounds of Winter, which originally appeared on his 1996 relea
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A few years ago I was playing on a website and heard the sounds of a beautiful Spanish guitar. A few weeks after I heard the music on the web, then I heard it on TV (on an arts channel) and realized it was STING!! STING playing the spanish guitar. Listen here:(As I wrote this blog I realized that this song is on ANOTHER Sting CD that I do not have which I just ordered, The Soul Cages. For me to...
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MUSIC NEWS - Coco Sumner, the 18-year-old daughter of former Police-man / rock legend Sting, is in a L.A. hospital in intensive care after collapsing in a restaurant and fracturing her skull last week. Apparently, she told friends that she wasn't feeling well and as she tried to stand up, instead fell to the floor and hit her head against a chair on the way down. Sting (already in
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"For we are gathered here to celebrate and explore the music of Winter, the season of frosts and long dark nights." So writes Sting in the liner notes to his latest recording, If on a Winter's Night..., a concept album centered on the darkest and most contemplative of the seasons.
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A few years ago I was playing on a website and heard the sounds of a beautiful Spanish guitar. A few weeks after I heard the music on the web, then I heard it on TV (on an arts channel) and realized it was STING!! STING playing the spanish guitar. Listen here:(As I wrote this blog I realized that this song is on ANOTHER Sting CD that I do not have which I just ordered, The Soul Cages. For me to...
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Sting - 07/27/1988 SBD [Disc 1] [Disc 2] [Disc 3]In 1988, former Police frontman Sting was touring behind the fabulous, if not his greatest ever, solo release Nothing Like the Sun. The band that toured behind him consisted of none other than the great Branford Marsalis on the sax and a cast of top-shelf musicians/singers that delivered the songs from this album with all the class, style and be...
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Sting has not released an album of new material since 2006's Songs of the Labyrinth which was rooted in 1600's lute compositions. Of course, he was a little busy with a year-plus reunion tour with the Police.This fall, Sting returns with a new album that is, once again, built around more traditional music. If On a Winter's Night... "presents an arc of songs that conjures the season of spirits...
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"For we are gathered here to celebrate and explore the music of Winter, the season of frosts and long dark nights." So writes Sting in the liner notes to his latest recording, If on a Winter's Night..., a concept album centered on the darkest and most contemplative of the seasons.
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Having just MOGged about the new connection I made between the song "Young Folks" by Peter, Bjorn & John and a rising, mega-hot French actress, I started thinking about all of the musical associations that we make with significant people and events in our lives. And, since it's Toxic Tuesday at Mike the Knife's MOG page, I began to muse on what happens when the association goes sour. Like when ...
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Sting isn’t very impressed with Simon Cowell’s reality singing competition show, The X Factor. The Brit rocker recently told London’s Evening Standard: “It is a soap opera which has nothing to do with music. In fact, it has put music back decades.”Although The X Factor has already produced an international ...
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Sting performed "Soul Cake" on the Late Show with David Letterman on 10/26. Check it out below:Buy Sting on iTunes, Amazon MP3, or on CD.
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a ghost storyI watch the Western skyThe sun is sinkingThe geese are flying SouthIt sets me thinkingI did not miss you muchI did not sufferWhat did not kill meJust made me tougherI feel the winter comeHis icy sinewsNow in the fire lightThe case continuesAnother night in courtThe same old trialThe same old questions askedåThe same denialThe shadows closely runåI look for answers inThe fire's embe.
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| 2 La Belle Dame Sans Regrets |
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| 3 You Still Touch Me |
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| 4 History Will Teach Us Nothing |
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| 5 I Was Brought to My Senses |
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