Nothing Like The Sun - Album
Nothing Like The Sun (Album) by Sting
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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE Born 2 October 1951 Known As Sting Is An English Musician And Actor. He Was The Frontman Songwriter And Bassist For New Wave Rock Band The Police From 1977 Until Their Breakup In 1986. He Launched A Solo Career In 1985 And Has Included Elements Of Rock Jazz Reggae Classical New-Age And Worldbeat In His Music. 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. In 2019 He Received A BMI Award For "Every Breath You Take" Becoming The Most-Played Song In Radio History. In 2002 Sting Received The Ivor Novello Award For Lifetime Achievement From The British Academy Of Songwriters Composers And Authors And Was Also Inducted Into The Songwriters Hall Of Fame. He Was Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame As A Member Of The Police In 2003. In 2000 He Received A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame For Recording. In 2003 Sting Received A CBE From Elizabeth II At Buckingham Palace For Services To Music. He Was Made A Kennedy Center Honoree At The White House In 2014 And Was Awarded The Polar Music Prize In 2017. With The Police Sting Became One Of The World's Best-Selling Music Artists. Solo And With The Police Combined He Has Sold Over 100 Million Records. In 2006 Paste Ranked Him 62nd Of The 100 Best Living Songwriters. He Was 63rd Of VH1's 100 Greatest Artists Of Rock And 80th Of Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Musical Stars Of The 20th Century. He Has Collaborated With Other Musicians On Songs Such As "Money For Nothing" With Dire Straits "Rise & Fall" With Craig David "All For Love" With Bryan Adams And Rod Stewart "You Will Be My Ain True Love" With Alison Krauss And Introduced The North African Music Genre Raï To Western Audiences Through The Hit Song "Desert Rose" With Cheb Mami. 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. Full Wikipedia Article Https //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Sting_ Musician Studio Albums
The Dream Of The Blue Turtles 1985 ...Nothing Like The Sun 1987 The Soul Cages 1991 Ten Summoner's Tales 1993 Mercury Falling 1996 Brand New Day 1999 Sacred Love 2003 Songs From The Labyrinth 2006 If On A Winter's Night... 2009 Symphonicities 2010 The Last Ship 2013 57th & 9th 2016 44/876 2018 With Shaggy My Songs 2019 The Bridge 2021
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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE Born 2 October 1951 Known As Sting Is An English Musician And Actor. He Was The Frontman Songwriter And Bassist For New Wave Rock Band The Police From 1977 Until Their Breakup In 1986. He Launched A Solo Career In 1985 And Has Included Elements Of Rock Jazz Reggae Classical New-Age And Worldbeat In His Music. 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. In 2019 He Received A BMI Award For "Every Breath You Take" Becoming The Most-Played Song In Radio History. In 2002 Sting Received The Ivor Novello Award For Lifetime Achievement From The British Academy Of Songwriters Composers And Authors And Was Also Inducted Into The Songwriters Hall Of Fame. He Was Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame As A Member Of The Police In 2003. In 2000 He Received A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame For Recording. In 2003 Sting Received A CBE From Elizabeth II At Buckingham Palace For Services To Music. He Was Made A Kennedy Center Honoree At The White House In 2014 And Was Awarded The Polar Music Prize In 2017. With The Police Sting Became One Of The World's Best-Selling Music Artists. Solo And With The Police Combined He Has Sold Over 100 Million Records. In 2006 Paste Ranked Him 62nd Of The 100 Best Living Songwriters. He Was 63rd Of VH1's 100 Greatest Artists Of Rock And 80th Of Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Musical Stars Of The 20th Century. He Has Collaborated With Other Musicians On Songs Such As "Money For Nothing" With Dire Straits "Rise & Fall" With Craig David "All For Love" With Bryan Adams And Rod Stewart "You Will Be My Ain True Love" With Alison Krauss And Introduced The North African Music Genre Raï To Western Audiences Through The Hit Song "Desert Rose" With Cheb Mami. 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. Full Wikipedia Article Https //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Sting_ Musician Studio Albums
The Dream Of The Blue Turtles 1985 ...Nothing Like The Sun 1987 The Soul Cages 1991 Ten Summoner's Tales 1993 Mercury Falling 1996 Brand New Day 1999 Sacred Love 2003 Songs From The Labyrinth 2006 If On A Winter's Night... 2009 Symphonicities 2010 The Last Ship 2013 57th & 9th 2016 44/876 2018 With Shaggy My Songs 2019 The Bridge 2021 read less
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The Dream Of The Blue Turtles 1985 ...Nothing Like The Sun 1987 The Soul Cages 1991 Ten Summoner's Tales 1993 Mercury Falling 1996 Brand New Day 1999 Sacred Love 2003 Songs From The Labyrinth 2006 If On A Winter's Night... 2009 Symphonicities 2010 The Last Ship 2013 57th & 9th 2016 44/876 2018 With Shaggy My Songs 2019 The Bridge 2021 read less
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The Album Won Best British Album At The 1988 Brit Awards. Background
The Album Was Influenced By Two Events In Sting's Life First The Death In Late 1986 Of His Mother Which Contributed To The Sombre Tone Of Several Songs And Second His Participation In A Conspiracy Of Hope Tour On Behalf Of Amnesty International Which Brought Sting To Parts Of Latin America That Had Been Ravaged By Civil Wars And Introduced Him To Victims Of Government Oppression. "They Dance Alone Cueca Solo " Was Inspired By His Witnessing Of Public Demonstrations Of Grief By The Wives And Daughters Of Men Missing In Chile Tortured And Murdered By The Military Dictatorship Of The Time Who Danced The Cueca The Traditional Dance Of Chile By Themselves With Photos Of Their Loved Ones Pinned To Their Clothes. "Be Still My Beating Heart" And "The Lazarus Heart" Approach The Subjects Of Life Love And Death And Also Featured Police Guitarist Andy Summers. Elsewhere On The Album "Englishman In New York" In Honour Of Quentin Crisp Continues The Jazz-Influenced Music More Commonly Found On Sting's Previous Album As Does "Sister Moon".
The Album's First Single And Biggest Hit "We'll Be Together" Reportedly Not One Of Sting's Favorites Sported A Prominent Dance Beat And Funk Overtones It Reached #7 On The Billboard Hot 100 Charts In Late 1987 And Even Crossed Over To The R&B Charts. Overall The Album's Sales Now Stand At Over 2 Million Making It One Of Sting's Best-Sellers.
The Album Also Inspired A Spanish/Portuguese Counterpart The 1988 Mini-Album Nada Como El Sol. It Featured Four Of The Songs From The Album Sung In Either Spanish Or Portuguese And In The Case Of "Fragile" Both Languages.
Three Years After Its Initial Release On Both The Album And In Single Form "Englishman In New York" Was Remixed In Mid-1990 By Dutch Producer Ben Liebrand Apparently To Increase Sting's Commercial Viability After A Two-Year Absence In The Charts. Providing A Stronger Dance Beat As Well As An Extended Introduction The Song Was A Hit In Clubs And Reached Number 15 On The UK Pop Charts. The Maxi-Single Also Included A Dance Remix Of "We'll Be Together" As A B-Side.
...Nothing Like The Sun Was One Of The First Fully Digital Audio Recordings DDD To Achieve Multi-Platinum Status. It Is Also Sting's Biggest Selling Album Yet With Worldwide Sales Of 11 Million Copies As Of 1997. Tracklisting
The Lazarus Heart
Be Still My Beating Heart
Englishman In New York
History Will Teach Us Nothing
They Dance Alone Gueca Solo Fragile
We'll Be Together
Straight To My Heart
Rock Steady
Sister Moon
Little Wing
The Secret Marriage Singles
1987 - "We'll Be Together" #7 US
1988 - "Englishman In New York" #84 US #51 UK
1988 - "Be Still My Beating Heart" #15 US
1988 - "Fragile" #70 UK
1988 - "They Dance Alone" #94 UK
1990 - "Englishman In New York" Remix #15 UK Credits
Sting – Lead Vocals Bass Guitar On "History Will Teach Us Nothing" And "Fragile"
Renée Geyer – Background Vocals
Dollette McDonald – Background Vocals
Janice Pendarvis – Background Vocals
Vesta Williams – Background Vocals
Kenwood Dennard – Drums On "Little Wing"
Manu Katché – Drums
Andy Newmark – Drums
Gil Evans & His Orchestra On "Little Wing" Mino Cinelu – Percussion Vocoder
Rubén Blades – Vocals On "They Dance Alone Cueca Solo " Mark Egan – Bass On "Little Wing"
Hiram Bullock – Guitar On "Little Wing"
Eric Clapton – Guitar On "They Dance Alone Cueca Solo "
Fareed Haque – Guitar On "They Dance Alone Cueca Solo "
Mark Knopfler – Guitar On "They Dance Alone Cueca Solo " Andy Summers – Guitar On "The Lazurus Heart" And "Be Still My Beating Heart"
Kenny Kirkland – Keyboards
Ken Helman – Piano On "The Secret Marriage"
Branford Marsalis – Saxophone
Published: 11 Nov 2020, 14:14
...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. Background
The Album Was Influenced By Two Events In Sting's Life First The Death In Late 1986 Of His Mother Which Contributed To The Sombre Tone Of Several Songs And Second His Participation In A Conspiracy Of Hope Tour On Behalf Of Amnesty International Which Brought Sting To Parts Of Latin America That Had Been Ravaged By Civil Wars And Introduced Him To Victims Of Government Oppression. "They Dance Alone Cueca Solo " Was Inspired By His Witnessing Of Public Demonstrations Of Grief By The Wives And Daughters Of Men Missing In Chile Tortured And Murdered By The Military Dictatorship Of The Time Who Danced The Cueca The Traditional Dance Of Chile By Themselves With Photos Of Their Loved Ones Pinned To Their Clothes. "Be Still My Beating Heart" And "The Lazarus Heart" Approach The Subjects Of Life Love And Death And Also Featured Police Guitarist Andy Summers. Elsewhere On The Album "Englishman In New York" In Honour Of Quentin Crisp Continues The Jazz-Influenced Music More Commonly Found On Sting's Previous Album As Does "Sister Moon".
The Album's First Single And Biggest Hit "We'll Be Together" Reportedly Not One Of Sting's Favorites Sported A Prominent Dance Beat And Funk Overtones It Reached #7 On The Billboard Hot 100 Charts In Late 1987 And Even Crossed Over To The R&B Charts. Overall The Album's Sales Now Stand At Over 2 Million Making It One Of Sting's Best-Sellers.
The Album Also Inspired A Spanish/Portuguese Counterpart The 1988 Mini-Album Nada Como El Sol. It Featured Four Of The Songs From The Album Sung In Either Spanish Or Portuguese And In The Case Of "Fragile" Both Languages.
Three Years After Its Initial Release On Both The Album And In Single Form "Englishman In New York" Was Remixed In Mid-1990 By Dutch Producer Ben Liebrand Apparently To Increase Sting's Commercial Viability After A Two-Year Absence In The Charts. Providing A Stronger Dance Beat As Well As An Extended Introduction The Song Was A Hit In Clubs And Reached Number 15 On The UK Pop Charts. The Maxi-Single Also Included A Dance Remix Of "We'll Be Together" As A B-Side.
...Nothing Like The Sun Was One Of The First Fully Digital Audio Recordings DDD To Achieve Multi-Platinum Status. It Is Also Sting's Biggest Selling Album Yet With Worldwide Sales Of 11 Million Copies As Of 1997. Tracklisting
The Lazarus Heart
Be Still My Beating Heart
Englishman In New York
History Will Teach Us Nothing
They Dance Alone Gueca Solo Fragile
We'll Be Together
Straight To My Heart
Rock Steady
Sister Moon
Little Wing
The Secret Marriage Singles
1987 - "We'll Be Together" #7 US
1988 - "Englishman In New York" #84 US #51 UK
1988 - "Be Still My Beating Heart" #15 US
1988 - "Fragile" #70 UK
1988 - "They Dance Alone" #94 UK
1990 - "Englishman In New York" Remix #15 UK Credits
Sting – Lead Vocals Bass Guitar On "History Will Teach Us Nothing" And "Fragile"
Renée Geyer – Background Vocals
Dollette McDonald – Background Vocals
Janice Pendarvis – Background Vocals
Vesta Williams – Background Vocals
Kenwood Dennard – Drums On "Little Wing"
Manu Katché – Drums
Andy Newmark – Drums
Gil Evans & His Orchestra On "Little Wing" Mino Cinelu – Percussion Vocoder
Rubén Blades – Vocals On "They Dance Alone Cueca Solo " Mark Egan – Bass On "Little Wing"
Hiram Bullock – Guitar On "Little Wing"
Eric Clapton – Guitar On "They Dance Alone Cueca Solo "
Fareed Haque – Guitar On "They Dance Alone Cueca Solo "
Mark Knopfler – Guitar On "They Dance Alone Cueca Solo " Andy Summers – Guitar On "The Lazurus Heart" And "Be Still My Beating Heart"
Kenny Kirkland – Keyboards
Ken Helman – Piano On "The Secret Marriage"
Branford Marsalis – Saxophone