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Jun 08, 2013
Sting's sharp career celebration warms Ravinia crowd...
Sting's current ''Back to Bass'' tour is a tightly packed retrospective, assembling all the facets of his 36-year career into a neat two hours of the obvious hits, some international detours, and requisite ballads. The Ravinia show, the first of two consecutive sold-out nights, accommodated the expectations of anyone who entered the Sting camp early, middle, or late. He didn't push things much beyond those boundaries; instead, Sting performed with the consummate class of a professional who appears more relaxed in presenting his long line of musical trophies than he is earning any more for the shelf...
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Jun 07, 2013
Sting gives play permission to preview album song at the Live Theatre...
Theatre-goers will be the first to hear an early preview of a new song by Sting. The musician’s yet-to-be released album, The Last Ship, shares the name of a musical play he has devised, which is to open on Broadway next year. And he has given permission for the title song to be included in another new play to be premiered in the North East this month. Director Max Roberts asked Sting for permission to include his song All This Time in the play, Tyne. Sting gave his blessing and also sent a demo recording of The Last Ship along with additional lyrics...
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Jun 06, 2013
Sting at Red Rocks Amphitheatre...
Forget the 16 Grammy Awards and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame credentials. How many 61-year-old men can still rock skinny jeans? He's still got it. Sting’s vocals still sound crystalline, his musical chops are uncanny and his catalog is the unabridged manifesto for Rock Theory 101. He's the original hipster - and the flattery is well-earned. For his globe-trotting ''Back To Bass'' tour that hit Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Wednesday night, Sting stripped-down the production value and offered up a no frills, no gimmicks approach show. For the opener ''If I Ever Lose My Faith,'' Sting strolled out on stage with his bass in hand like he was doing a simple sound check. No operatic stage effects, no pyrotechnics, no fluff. It was a refreshing diversion from the overwrought stage designs that most large acts rely on for theatric spunk...
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Jun 05, 2013
Sting: Writing The Last Ship...

The inspiration for it really stemmed from my album The Soul Cages that I wrote in 1990, which depicted the landscape of my hometown, Wallsend, in the Northeast of England. My early memories are of the Swan Hunters shipyard at the end of the street, where some of the largest ships ever built were constructed; the imposing presence of ships, towering over the roofs of the terraced houses we lived in, represented a very potent symbolism for me. I watched thousands of men walk down our street every day on their way to work on these mighty ships. My great-great-grandfather was a master mariner, one of my grandfathers was a North Sea pilot, another was a shipwright, and my father served his time as an engineer. So my family over the generations has always been connected to the sea and ships...

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Jun 05, 2013
STING'S THE LAST SHIP - New Album From the 16-Time Grammy® Award Winner...

Cherrytree/Interscope/A&M Records is pleased to announce a new album of original material from Sting, entitled The Last Ship, scheduled for release on September 24, 2013 (internationally on September 23, 2013). The album is inspired by Sting's forthcoming play of the same name and explores the central themes of homecoming and self-discovery, drawing upon his memories of growing up in the shadow of the Swan Hunters Shipyard in Wallsend. His personal reminiscences illuminate universal truths - the complexity of relationships, the passage of time and the importance of family and community - to form an affecting, complex parable for our modern times...

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Jun 04, 2013
GRAMMY® Charity Online Auctions Offer Exciting Music Memorobilia...
GRAMMY® Charity Online Auctions - the latest in this year's auction series is the "Get Ready To Rock Auction," which launched just after the MusiCares MAP Fund® benefit concert honoring two-time GRAMMY-winning Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington. Presented in partnership with Kompolt, the lots are available for bid now through June 10 at www.ebay.com/grammy. Winning bidders can enjoy extraordinary memorabilia and meet & greets with all proceeds benefiting MusiCares and the GRAMMY Foundation. Rock memorabilia signed by Jeff Beck, the Black Keys, Fun., Billy Idol, Elton John, Mumford & Sons, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sting, Neil Young, and more!
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Jun 03, 2013
Sting To Release New Album In September...

Sting will release an album of new songs next fall, his first full-length LP of original material since 2003's "Sacred Love," his publicist said. The album, "The Last Ship," grew out of the songwriting Sting has been doing for a musical of the same name, which the producers hope will run on Broadway in 2014. That play is set in a shipyard in Wallsend, England, near where Sting, born Gordon Sumner, spent his youth. "The Last Ship" will contain several songs used in the musical, as well as a few others Sting wrote for the play but decided not to include. It will be released on Sept. 24 by a consortium of three labels - Cherrytree, Interscope and A & M Records...

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Jun 01, 2013
Sting brings his best stuff...

The only question needing an answer heading into Sting’s Victoria debut on Friday night: Which version of the rock legend would show up? The fiery Brit whose first band, the Police, produced an incredible number of hits over a six-year period? Or the easy-listening yoga practitioner whose last substantial hit was a decade ago? Turns out he was a little bit of both at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. Sting, 61, delivered a 21-song, two-hour set split evenly between Police hits and solo offerings. Not every song from both sides of his personality worked, but there was a uniqueness to many of the left-field choices that bookended his staple singles...

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May 31, 2013
The Back To Bass Summer 2013 tour kicked off on May 30 in Kelowna, BC!
The Back To Bass Summer 2013 tour kicked off on May 30 in Kelowna, BC! Check out this photo of Sting rehearsing for opening night and for a glance at the opening night's setlist. If you were there be sure to tell us what you thought of the show by posting your comments over at sting.com/tour/date/id/2846...

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May 30, 2013
David Sancious hits the road with Sting and talks to the Times Colonist...

David Sancious has played with everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Santana, Seal and Bryan Ferry. Nine weeks of world travel started Tuesday morning for keyboardist David Sancious, who won't return to his home in Woodstock, New York, until the second week of August. Not that the 59-year-old is complaining. "When we go out on tour with Sting, it's as nice as it could be," Sancious said Monday, prior to departing for Kelowna and the start of Sting's Back to Bass Tour. "We fly in a private plane, most of the time, and with [an instrument] technician at our beck and call. But as high as it has gotten for me, I don't lose touch with the basics of what it means to be a musician..."

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