Sting should retire

x-post-i will pick it up as soon as i can!

even though i want to hear the new missy too and i am not a rockefeller.
-- scott seward (skotro...), November 26th, 2003.

STING TO THREAD!!!

Words to live by.

Probably, yeah

haha, i was just searching for a thread to link this story.

What might save both me and you is that the megalomaniac Uzbek dictators love their children too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNt5iK8EuAU

He was going to turn it down until the president called him with a personal rendition of their national song, 'Uzbek's Too Big Without You'.

Sting just checkin' "play for the daughter of a brutal despot" off the list of childhood ambitions, good work Sting

xp A+++

englishman in tashkent

Tajikistan's So Close To Me

Looking back...

I'll probably end up hating him if there isn't a Police reunion tour sometime in the next 5 years.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:02 AM

been a few months, but i just want to note sting releasing possibly the most prententious christmas album of all time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_on_a_Winter%27s_Night...

pretentious, gah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAleFnbRgw

oh ffs ffs ffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCbCA5z1Ygs

They did a Spanish version of that too, I like the fact that the message of that one song was so important that language was not going to stop him from sharing it's beauty and truth with the largest non-English speaking record markets outside of Europe our brothers and sisters around the world.

He's not being allowed to get away with it

Guess his wife has eyed a few Louboutins again.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkTc7ORCUAAq4KZ.jpg

Ah, Langford.

Nooooo

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/theater/sting-to-join-the-cast-of-his-broadway-musical.html

Nooooooooooooo

“I’ve been working on this show for five years and been at every rehearsal, every performance, so it’s not like I’ve flown in from Planet Rock Star to save the day,” Sting said in an interview on Sunday before telling the cast members that he is joining them. He said he’d show his rear end “in Macy’s if it will help our show.”

My mom loves this drivel. I had to sit through this horrible track about his dad called Dead Man's Boots. Oh god. My other family members will be taking it up on thanksgiving.

Holiday music often ends up being kind of a Scylla and Charybdis deal.

i wonder whether if you're in a musical based on your life it eventually interferes with your memories, of everything depicted, like it's a few years later & you're remembering somebody you used to know or some night you first realised something about yourself & you can't remember if the whole thing happened just regularly in plain speech or melodically, surrounded by conspicuously fresh faced young people, under peppery torrents of synthetic rain

Because there's nothing like embattled ship builders to draw a crowd

Wow that picture, with him sitting there with a satisfied smile and the guy he's replacing (Jimmy Nail) looking heartbroken off to the right...

and then the producer Jeffery Seller in that pose looks like he's taunting Jimmy "Jim you're fired! We finally got some talent right here" points

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/11/24/arts/SUB-STING/SUB-STING-master675.jpg

Believe it is high time to revive the "Tell that to your new leader -- Sting!" meme

Should have just said: "Tell that to your new leading man -- Sting!"

"Uh, Sting, you know you're only a replacement chorus member, right?"

"What?"

"But we do want you to show your ass."

crew laughing, Jimmy staring coldly...

the yelp subscriptions department will be the only beneficiary if sting shows his rear end in macy's.

I would love to hear Americans trying to do a North East accent, that would be hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi22OFuVEag

That's actually far worse than I imagined an American doing a North East accent would be... unless it's a joke?

there's a naked rear end in a macy's shop
(that's my hole up there)

good grief that accent! had he just caught his tongue in a meat grinder or had dental surgery or something?

Remind me not to visit his dentist amirite ladiezngennelmen.

pretty sure you can see part of his rear end in that picture

good grief that accent! had he just caught his tongue in a meat grinder or had dental surgery or something?

― john wahey (NickB), Monday, November 24, 2014 1:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sounded more like a bad attempt at a Caribbean accent to me!

Sting is BACK and he's ready to ROCK!!!

And of course, Sting's appearances on No Jacket Required offer a nice assist to Phil.

Btw, I saw that Sting/Peter Gabriel tour, and I was surprised to see Sting playing bass for a bunch of the Gabriel set. He seemed to be having a lot of fun just being a musician in the background.

I still have a soft spot for Blue Turtles since that CD was playing all the time in the house when I grew up. Guessing I'd cringe a lot if I heard it now but some of the lyrics meant a lot to me when I was 12. That said the "Bring on the Night" live double disc is probably Sting's peak - one of the few live albums from a superstar act that actually shows how deep his catalogue really was, making a conscious decision to avoid nearly all his hits.

I think a good way to describe Sting is "pouty and horny"