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Sting " Until... " is a waltz/ballad song written and performed by Sting , from the 2001 Academy Award -nominated and Golden Globe -winning film Kate & Leopold . [ 1 ] The song won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for the Academy Award in the same category.
"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" is a song by the Police, released as a single in 1980. Released as the lead single in the US and second single in the UK from their album Zenyatta Mondatta , the song was written by Sting as a comment on how people love simple-sounding songs.
The song is in the key of A minor. [8] It incorporates a powerful eight bar guitar solo by Police guitarist Andy Summers, one of his few solos on Zenyatta Mondatta. [2] [9] Author Erica Starr has described Stewart Copeland's drum playing on the song as "jerky" and "syncopated" but that the beats "float around with great ease," noting that the song has "tremendous energy and forward momentum."
The 2008 re-release adds two live recordings of Sting-penned songs performed on lutes, as well as a live recording, in the same style, of "Hellhound on My Trail" by another Robert Johnson - the Delta blues musician, and an alternate version of "Have You Seen the Bright Lily Grow". The latter is omitted from the 2013 "Dowland Anniversary Edition ...
Brand New Day is the sixth solo studio album by English musician Sting, released by A&M Records on 27 September 1999. Promoted heavily by the success of the album's second single, "Desert Rose" (featuring popular Algerian Raï singer Cheb Mami), the album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 and sold over 3.5 million copies in the United States.
"Nothing 'Bout Me" is a song by English singer-songwriter Sting as the final single from his fourth studio album, Ten Summoner's Tales (1993). In Canada, the single was released in autumn of 1993, although in the rest of the world, it was released in early February 1994 by A&M Records .
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The song was nominated for an Academy Award, a Grammy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. The song is a notable example of the modern use of a drone bass. Alison Krauss included it on her 2007 compilation, A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection and Sting re-recorded it for his 2010 album, Symphonicities .