Sting, (born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner; 2 October 1951) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, activist, actor and philanthropist.
Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist of the rock music band The Police. As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, and receiving an Oscar nomination for best song. He is a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the first solo and debut studio album released by British pop singer-songwriter Sting, released in the United States on June 1, 1985. It includes ten tracks and was released in 1985, only a year after The Police had unofficially broken up. The album features some of Sting's strongest political songs, including "Russians" (about Cold War nuclear anxieties, which had peaked in the 1980s); "Children's Crusade" (comparing the destruction of the younger generation in World War I to the devastation brought about by heroin addiction in modern-day London); and "We Work the Black Seam" (about the recent U.K. Miners' Strike).
Track listing
All songs written by Sting except as noted.
1. "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" – 4:14
2. "Love Is the Seventh Wave" – 3:30
3. "Russians" (Prokofiev, Sting) – 3:57
4. "Children's Crusade" – 5:00
5. "Shadows in the Rain" – 4:56
6. "We Work the Black Seam" – 5:40
7. "Consider Me Gone" – 4:21
8. "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" – 1:15
9. "Moon over Bourbon Street" – 3:59
10. "Fortress Around Your Heart" – 4:48
…Nothing Like the Sun is a 1987 album by Sting. The title comes from Shakespeare's Sonnet #130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"), which Sting used in the song "Sister Moon". He added that his inspiration for this was a close encounter with a drunk, in which Sting quoted the sonnet in response to the drunk's importunate query, "How beautiful is the moon?"
The album won Best British Album at the 1988 Brit Awards.
Track listing
All songs by Sting except as noted.
1. "The Lazarus Heart" – 4:34
2. "Be Still My Beating Heart" – 5:32
3. "Englishman in New York" – 4:25
4. "History Will Teach Us Nothing" – 4:58
5. "They Dance Alone" – 7:16
6. "Fragile" – 3:54
7. "We'll Be Together" – 4:52
8. "Straight to My Heart" – 3:54
9. "Rock Steady" – 4:27
10. "Sister Moon" – 3:46
11. "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix) – 5:04
12. "The Secret Marriage" (Eisler, Sting) – 2:03
The Soul Cages is the third full length studio album released by Sting. Released in 1991, it became his second No. 1 album in the United Kingdom. It spawned four singles: "All This Time", "Mad About You", "Why Should I Cry For You" and "The Soul Cages". The latter won the 1992 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.
Track listing
All songs by Sting.
1. "Island of Souls" – 6:41
2. "All This Time" – 4:54
3. "Mad About You" – 3:53
4. "Jeremiah Blues (Part 1)" – 4:46
5. "Why Should I Cry For You?" – 4:54
6. "Saint Agnes and the Burning Train" – 2:43
7. "The Wild Wild Sea" – 6:41
8. "The Soul Cages" – 5:52
9. "When the Angels Fall" – 7:48
Ten Summoner's Tales is the fourth solo studio album by the rock musician Sting. The title is a combined pun of his given name, Gordon Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the summoner. Released in 1993, it explores themes of love and morality in a noticeably upbeat mood compared to his previous release, the introspective The Soul Cages.
Track listing
All songs written by Sting unless otherwise noted:
1. If I Ever Lose My Faith in You – 4:30
2. Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven) – 5:11
3. Fields of Gold – 3:42
4. Heavy Cloud No Rain – 3:39
5. She's Too Good for Me – 2:30
6. Seven Days – 4:40
7. Saint Augustine in Hell – 5:05
8. It's Probably Me (Sting, Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen) – 4:57
9. Everybody Laughed But You – 3:53 (Excluded from original Canada/US releases)[1]
10. Shape of My Heart (Sting, Dominic Miller) – 4:38
11. Something the Boy Said – 5:13
12. Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me) – 3:39
Mercury Falling is the fifth studio album released by Sting. The album was marked by its tight studio production and use of brass reminiscent of recordings made at FAME Studios in the 1960s. His release was considered by many fans to signal the beginning of Sting's transition from heavier jazz-inspired rock to the adult contemporary genre.
Track listing
All songs written, arranged and composed by Sting except "La Belle Dame Sans Regrets" written, arranged and composed by Sting and Dominic Miller.
1. "The Hounds of Winter" – 5:27
2. "I Hung My Head" – 4:40
3. "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" – 6:41
4. "I Was Brought to My Senses" – 5:48
5. "You Still Touch Me" – 3:46
6. "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" – 3:56
7. "All Four Seasons" – 4:28
8. "Twenty Five to Midnight" – 4:09 (excluded from original Canada/US releases)[1]
9. "La Belle Dame Sans Regrets" – 5:17
10. "Valparaiso" – 5:27
11. "Lithium Sunset" – 2:38
Brand New Day is Sting's sixth solo album. A Grammy Award winner, it peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 and sold over 3,000,000 copies. The song "Desert Rose" prominently features popular Algerian Raï singer Cheb Mami. Originally, Sting's usual producer Hugh Padgham was to produce the record, but Sting was happy with the work done by Kipper, and Padgham was never called. Many sounds from Spectrasonics can be heard in Kipper's work on the record.
Track listing
All songs written by Sting, except where noted.
1. "A Thousand Years" (Kipper, Sting) – 5:57
2. "Desert Rose" (featuring Cheb Mami) – 4:45
3. "Big Lie, Small World" (featuring David Hartley) – 5:05
4. "After the Rain Has Fallen" – 5:03
5. "Perfect Love... Gone Wrong" (featuring Sté) – 5:24
6. "Tomorrow We’ll See" – 4:47
7. "Prelude to the End of the Game" – 0:20
8. "Fill Her Up" (featuring James Taylor) – 5:38
9. "Ghost Story" – 5:29
10. "Brand New Day" – 6:19
Sacred Love is the seventh studio album by Sting. The album was released on 30 September 2003. The album featured racier beats and experiments collaborating with hip-hop artist Mary J. Blige and sitar player Anoushka Shankar. Some songs like "Inside" and "Dead Man's Rope" were well received; and Sting had experimented with new sounds, in particular the more rock-influenced "This War".
Sting adapted the first quatrain of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence for the first four sung lines of "Send Your Love".
The music also bears huge relevance to Sting's autobiography Broken Music.
Track listing
All songs were written by Sting.
1. "Inside" – 4:46
2. "Send Your Love" (featuring Vicente Amigo) – 4:38
3. "Whenever I Say Your Name" (featuring Mary J. Blige) – 5:25
4. "Dead Man's Rope" – 5:43
5. "Never Coming Home" – 4:58
6. "Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)" – 3:56
7. "Forget About the Future" – 5:12
8. "This War" – 5:29
9. "The Book of My Life" (featuring Anoushka Shankar) – 6:15
10. "Sacred Love" – 5:43
Songs from the Labyrinth is a 2006 album of recordings of the music of John Dowland by Sting and Bosnian/Croatian lutenist Edin Karamazov. It entered the UK Official Top 75 Albums Chart at #24 and reached #25 on the Billboard 200. They are strong charting peaks for a classical record on the pop album charts, although the release was a slow seller for a Sting album.
Track listing
1. "Walsingham" – 0:38 [instrumental]
2. "Can She Excuse My Wrongs" – 2:35
3. "Ryght Honorable..." – 0:40 [letter to Sir Robert Cecil]
4. "Flow My Tears (Lachrimae)" – 4:42
5. "Have You Seen the Bright Lily Grow" – 2:35 [lyrics: Ben Jonson, music: Robert Johnson]
6. "...Then in Time Passing On..." – 0:32 [continuation of letter]
7. "The Battle Galliard" – 3:01
8. "The Lowest Trees Have Tops" [lyrics by Sir Edward Dyer] – 2:16
9. "... And Accordinge as I Desired Ther Cam a Letter..." – 0:55
10. "Fine Knacks for Ladies" – 1:50
11. "...From Thence I Went to Landgrave of Hessen..." – 0:24
12. "Fantasy" – 2:42
13. "Come, Heavy Sleep" – 3:46
14. "Forlorn Hope Fancy" – 3:08
15. "...And from Thence I Had Great Desire to See Italy..." – 0:28
16. "Come Again" – 2:56
17. "Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me" – 2:40
18. "...After My Departures I Caled to Mynde..." – 0:30
19. "Weep You No More, Sad Fountains" – 2:38
20. "My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home" – 1:34
21. "Clear or Cloudy" – 2:47
22. "...Men Say That the Kinge of Spain..." – 1:01
23. "In Darkness Let Me Dwell" – 4:12
If On a Winter's Night... is a studio album from British musician Sting. It was released on October 27, 2009 in the United States and November 2, 2009 in the United Kingdom.
Track listing
1. "Gabriel's Message" (2:34)
2. "Soul Cake" (3:29)
3. "There is No Rose of Such Virtue" (4:04)
4. "The Snow It Melts the Soonest" (3:44)
5. "Christmas at Sea" (4:38)
6. "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" (2:42)
7. "Cold Song" (3:16)
8. "The Burning Babe" (2:45)
9. "Now Winter Comes Slowly" (3:06)
10. "The Hounds of Winter" (5:51)
11. "Balulalow" (3:10)
12. "Cherry Tree Carol" (3:12)
13. "Lullaby for an Anxious Child" (2:50)
14. "The Hurdy-Gurdy Man" (2:51)
15. "You Only Cross My Mind in Winter" (2:36)
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