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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor.He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986.
The music video was directed by Paul Boyd in October, 1999 [11] and features Sting taking a trip through the Mojave Desert in a Jaguar S-Type driven by a masked female chauffeur while recording himself on a JVC GR-DVX4 video camera, and then going to a nightclub in Las Vegas to perform the song with Cheb Mami, a violinist and two DJs in front ...
In 1974, he was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Sting. [1] Bertrand worked in the film industry for some 40 years prior to his retirement in the mid-1970s. [2] He served as the sound engineer for the TV series, Marcus Welby, M.D. for three years, and "for many other top productions". [2]
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 the 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.
The video was shot at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 23, 1979. It features the band miming to the track amidst spacecraft displays, interspersed with NASA footage. Sting plays a guitar rather than a bass, and Stewart Copeland strikes his drumsticks on a Saturn V moon rocket. It was directed by Derek Burbidge.
Sting returned to a 1985 song that he hoped would no longer be needed more than 30 years later. Shocking Band Exits Through the Years Read article “I’ve only rarely sung this song in the many ...
The Best of 25 Years is a compilation album by English musician Sting. It was released on 24 October 2011 through ... "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" (2011 Remix
"Be Still My Beating Heart" is a song by Sting, from his second studio album, ...Nothing Like the Sun; released as the second US single from the album. In 1989 the song was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards .