[61] In 1984, Sting sang a re-worded version of "Every Breath You Take", titled "Every Bomb You Make" for episode 12 of the first series of the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image. In England, our house is surrounded by barley fields, and in the summer it's fascinating to watch the wind moving over the shimmering surface, like waves on an ocean of gold. He started his musical career in 1977 as a member of The Police, with whom he released five albums and countless hit singles. Sting is still a rock star. [149], In August 2014, Sting was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to reject Scottish independence from the UK in September's referendum on the issue. By GrantYoungg. The album went Triple Platinum by January 2001. Tom Dibb Sting sporadically glances up from between his cheekbones, to check we appreciate how clever he is being. He was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at the White House in 2014 and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2017.[6]. [127] Sting states, "before [the Ball] I did not know about Amnesty, I did not know about its work, I did not know about torture in the world. A big part of the original line-up will be moved to 2022. In Walking on the Moon, he squeezed in the reggae-infused Bob Marley classic Get Up, Stand Up while So Lonely added a lead from Mr. Sage. In 1989 he starred as Macheath (Mack the Knife) in John Dexter's Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. . $23.00. [43] The 1985 film Bring On the Night, directed by Michael Apted, documented the formation of his solo band and its first concert in France. [50], In May 1993, he covered his own Police song from the Ghost in the Machine album, "Demolition Man", for the Demolition Man film. 1988: Sting performed at Dane County Coliseum in Madison, USA. [110] A 16-date residency from 22 May to 2 September 2020 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada was rescheduled due to COVID-19, with the first date taking place on 29 October 2021. [77], Sting recorded a song called "Power's Out" with Nicole Scherzinger. Despite claiming he thought the concert was sponsored by UNICEF, he faced criticism in the press for receiving a payment of between one and two million pounds from Uzbek president Islam Karimov for the performance. [142] On 22 January 2010, Sting performed "Driven to Tears" during Hope for Haiti Now. The final single used to promote the film, "My Funny Friend and Me", was Sting's first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Song. [50] Written and performed by him, "Until" was his second nomination for an Academy Award for Best Song. Saturday nights Grand Rapids tour stop had the former Sting frontman unfurling more than 20 career-spanning songs, backed by a top-flight band. Mike DelGuidice $50.00. Every moment was enjoyed and the venue was amazing. Marvin Gaye The song, originally recorded in 2007, was to have been included on Scherzinger's shelved album Her Name is Nicole. The one digression from the string of hits was a four-song mini-set from The Bridge, Stings latest album, released late last year. ", "Sting '57th & 9th' Tour Theatre, Club and Arena Tour Announced", "Sting's Son to Join Him for Croatia Concert", "Avec Sting, le monde entier va voir le Bataclan revivre! [138][139][140], In 2007, Sting joined Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland for the closing set at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. For Her Love found the English-born songwriter perched on a stool, bass over his knee and heart on his sleeve. Sting closed the night on a mellow, somber note with what has become his cautionary tale to the human race, Fragile. He told the audience that the Amazon was burning, time to mobilize, as the repeated lyric how fragile we are pounded home his message. He was the frontman, songwriter and bassist for new wave rock band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. It went Double Platinum. 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[4], As a solo musician and a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards: he won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take", three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. [111][112] His 6 nights at the London Palladium were rescheduled to April 2022. The Cherrytree Music Company and Live Nation have confirmed that Sting will perform a special My Songs concert in Singapore at The Star Theatre on 22 March 2023.. Sting's My Songs concert is an exuberant and dynamic show featuring his most beloved songs, written throughout the 17-time Grammy Award winner's illustrious career both with The Police and as a solo artist. "Microsoft Hosted Sting Performance in Davos on Night Before Announcing Layoffs By Tom Dotan and Sam Schechner. Chuck Berry Sting will visit Concert Music Festival with his My Songs tour on August 4, 2022. [129], With his wife, Trudie Styler and Raoni Metuktire, a Kayapo Indian leader in Brazil, Sting founded the Rainforest Foundation Fund to help save the rainforests and protect indigenous peoples there. In 2007, however, the band did reform and undertook a reunion tour. SATAN IS BACK! Also in 1996, he sang for the Tina Turner single "On Silent Wings" as a part of her Wildest Dreams album. [36], His first solo album, 1985's The Dream of the Blue Turtles, featured jazz musicians including Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim and Branford Marsalis. Featuring the cream of America's young, black jazz musicians - Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, Omar Hakim and Darryl Jones - the album showed that Sting had lost none of his songwriting ability by being outside of the Police camp. Delmar Brown The former Police front person will play eight shows, including a handful of A Day on the Green events, with support from Joe Sumner. The album was produced by Sting's manager, Martin Kierszenbaum. [175], In 1969, Sting read the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake and later bought the film rights. Punter He named pets, a racehorse, his publishing company and one of his daughters (Fuschia, in the books actually Fuchsia) after characters from the books. Sting Gig Timeline. The message in a bottle was youre fired, read one tweet, referring to the 1979 Police hit Message in a Bottle.[126], Sting's involvement in human rights began in September 1981, when Martin Lewis included him in the fourth Amnesty International gala, The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, a benefit show co-founded by Monty Python member John Cleese. Wolfster69 [67] Initial reviews by fans that had access to early promotional copies were mixed, and some questioned Sting's artistic direction with this album. The sleek menace of Every Breath You Take still resonates 40 years on and, as a composer of infectious pop nuggets, Sting is near-peerless. mararubia Update - 4 October, 2022: With the first Sydney show sold out, Sting has added a second and final Sydney concert to his tour. EGA and the Boys A donation will be made by Sting and Live Nation to the Hawkes Bay Foundations CycloneRelief Fund. Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting 17 Dec 1995) Sumner. See all your opportunities to see them live below! You must be a logged-in member to add comments. Film, television and radio roles include: Sting narrated the American premiere of the musical Yanomamo (1983), by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, outlining problems that existed in the Amazon rainforest. At first, the long-running and Covid-delayed tour (named after his 2019 album . [7] In 2006, Paste ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters. Food for thought. 17 Apr 1982) Sumner. Gorehound1972 The artist behind "Roxanne" and "Message In A Bottle" will be at the Met Philadelphia on May 10 and 11. He reached the UK Top 40 with two further singles the same year with "You Still Touch Me" (#27 in June) and "I Was Brought To My Senses" (#31 in December). Sting introduced the ensemble as a family band, slyly remarking that bespectacled drummer Zach Jones was Police drummer Stewart Copelands son. Ray Charles The song stayed at the top of the U.S. charts for three weeks, topped multiple other charts worldwide and reached number two in the UK. The problem? Bands Sting Concerts Sting Concert History 2,593 Concerts Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician and actor. Sting's My Songs concert is an exuberant and dynamic show featuring his most beloved songs, written throughout the 17 . Blood, Sweat & Tears "[147], On 4 July 2011, Sting cancelled a concert for the Astana Day Festival in Astana, Kazakhstan. 15 in the UK Singles Chart, but the album soon dropped from the charts. [56] In June he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. At the 1994 Brit Awards in London, he was Best British Male. [50] Berklee College of Music awarded him his second honorary doctorate of music in May. As a primary and secondary marketplace, ticket prices may be above face value. denniscosma Joined by John Mayer and Kanye West, Sting and the Police ended the show singing "Message in a Bottle"[141] In 2008 Sting contributed to Songs for Tibet to support Tibet and the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. Sting Announces New 2021 Album 'The Bridge'. [50], In February 2001, he won another Grammy for "She Walks This Earth (Soberana Rosa)" on A Love Affair: The Music Of Ivan Lins. Sting tickets are available for purchase! Hit singles on the album include "Fields of Gold", a song inspired by the barley fields next to his Wiltshire home, with the music video featuring a silhouette of Sting walking through a village containing common features seen throughout the UK during that time such as a red telephone box and "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You", the latter earning his second award for best male pop singer at the 36th Grammy Awards. This is how concerts are meant to be and enjoyed. August 29th 2022. On 2 November 2012, Sting appeared on Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together and sang a version of "Message in a Bottle" to raise funds for those affected by a storm on the east coast of the US that week. Been to a few of his concerts and this was a low effort concert, Each band member brought their kid to chew up time. But you leave the Palladium knowing that if he could eat himself, he would. Abandoning his angry young rocker roots, Mr. Sumners more melodic Sting-lite songs such as Juliette offered soaring vocals that might work well in adult contemporary land while his closing number Jelly Bean would fit nicely in The Wiggles repertoire. Unique Sting Tour 2022 stickers featuring millions of original designs created and sold by independent artists. Legendary singer, songwriter, bassist, and former frontman for the seminal new wave band The Police, Sting, brought his My Songs tour to a receptive late-summer crowd at SPAC Wednesday night. [98][99] Named the 57th & 9th Tour, a world tour of theatres, clubs and arenas in support of 57th & 9th (with special guests Joe Sumner and the Last Bandoleros) began on 1 February 2017 in Vancouver at the Commodore Ballroom and continued into October. He also led other musicians (The Secret Police) including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Donovan, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in the finale Sting's reggae-tinged arrangement of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released". Loved everything about it! [37] Within a year, the album reached Triple Platinum. "[23] In 2011, he told Time that "I was never called Gordon. But there continued to be some instinct, against logic, against good advice, [that] told me I should quit. That notion is more welcome on stage than on record, as Tuesdays nearly two-hour set was packed with indelible melodies and catchy reggae-lite grooves. After moving to London in 1977, Sting founded his historic band, The Police, along with Stewart Copeland and . The summer US leg of the tour was an enormous hit and included VIP packages through OTLPresents. $25.00. Born 2 October 1951, in Wallsend, north-east England, Gordon Sumner's life started to change the evening a fellow musician in the Phoenix Jazzmen. Ive suffered for my art. On 4 September 1997, Sting performed "I'll Be Missing You" with Puff Daddy at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards in tribute to Notorious B.I.G. The film's overhauls and plot changes were documented by Sting's wife, Trudie Styler, as the changes resulted in some songs not being used. hbomb In 2018, he released the album 44/876, a collaboration with Jamaican musician Shaggy, which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2019. In addition to the Millers, the frontmans own son Joe Sumner opened the show with a half-hour set of his own songs (hell headline his own show at MilkBoy on Monday). It was preceded by the release of the lead single "If It's Love" on 1 September 2021. Giacomo Luke is the inspiration behind the name of Kentucky Derby-winning horse Giacomo. Products. Sting was on the 2005 Monkey Business CD by hip-hop group the Black Eyed Peas, singing on "Union", which samples his Englishman in New York. scramx26 In 1980, Sting became a tax exile[154][155][156] in Galway, Ireland. Sting takes the stage at the Met for the first of two nights. [135], On 15 September 1997, Sting joined Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Phil Collins and Mark Knopfler at London's Royal Albert Hall for Music for Montserrat, a benefit for the Caribbean island devastated by a volcano. The CD and DVD were to be entitled On Such a Night and intended to feature re-workings of Sting favourites such as "Roxanne" and "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". Ive hardly played it in years, because I thought it wasnt relevant any more, he sighs. KC you didnt disappoint. It featured Vanessa Redgrave, Ian McKellen, Gianna Nannini and Sting as the soldier.[47]. Sting Official Store Sting "The Bridge" Cassette. September 12, 2022 By Alex Gallagher Sting has announced an Australian tour for February 2023, returning for his first shows here in seven years. In January 1977, Sting moved from Newcastle to London and joined Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani (soon replaced by Andy Summers) to form the Police. Gerry Richardson has had a full and eventful career both as an accomplished musician and composer. First, to remember and honour those who lost their lives in the attack a year ago, and second to celebrate the life and the music that this historic theatre represents. Dystopia . Blind Foundation The Impressions, Helen55 Shop Sting Tour 2022 Hoodies and Sweatshirts designed and sold by artists for men, women, and everyone. Sting. Read more + February 19, 2023 T-shirts, stickers, wall art, home decor, and more designed and sold by independent artists. April 9 2022 at Caen - Znith (new show) Tickets for the show in Caen go on sale starting Friday the 4th of June 2021 . 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