Sting really got carried away with the idea that his supporting crew for Dream of the Blue Turtles was a real jazz band. He plucked them straight out of Wynton Marsalis'...
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This album consists of five songs from Nothing Like the Sun re-recorded in Spanish and Portugese. This was a well-done project -- the translations are good and Sting manages...
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A well-conceived solo album, this may be Sting at his peak; aside from containing some of his very best songs ("They Dance Alone," "Englishman In New York," and "We'll Be...
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If Dream of the Blue Turtles was an unabashedly pretentious affair, it looks positively lighthearted in comparison to Sting's sophomore effort, Nothing Like the Sun, one of...
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After the harrowing--make that depressing--songs of The Soul Cages, the comparative lightness of the material here came as a welcome relief. Opening track "If I Ever Lose My...
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After two albums of muted, mature jazz-inflected pop, the last being an explicit album about death, Sting created his first unapologetically pop album since the Police with...
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Emboldened by the enthusiastic response to the muted Nothing Like the Sun and reeling from the loss of his parents, Sting constructed The Soul Cages as a hushed mediation on...
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Made while he was still a member of the Police, Dream teams Sting with a fabulous cast of jazz players and includes such songs as "If You Love Somebody Set Them...
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The Police never really broke up, they just topped working together -- largely because they just couldn't stand playing together anymore and partially because Sting was...
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Early in his solo career, Sting defined himself as a man of taste, choosing to work with jazz musicians instead of rockers. Inevitably, this meant he walked the thin line...
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A disappointing seller, this was the first indication that Sting's tremendous media exposure--there since the dawn of MTV--might have started being more hurtful than helpful...
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In the summer of 1997, Puff Daddy took "I'll Be Missing You," a sappy reworking of "Every Breath You Take," to the top of the charts across the world; it became the biggest...
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It's easy to forget that Sting once was the bloke who fronted the happy-go-lucky, reggae-fied punk band, the Police. His solo albums and their jazz-fusion-pop complexities...
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By the late '90s, Sting had reached a point where he didn't have to prove his worth every time out; he had so ingrained himself in pop culture, he really had the freedom to...
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Gordon Sumner has been many things to many people: new wave ska rocker to Police fans, save-the-rainforest swooner to yuppie chardonnay sippers, tantric sex guru to the...
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In the summer of 1997, Puff Daddy took "I'll Be Missing You," a sappy reworking of "Every Breath You Take," to the top of the charts across the world; it became the biggest...
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