RUSSIA: Sting wows Russian fans at sell-out concerts in Moscow

Record ID: 226805

  • Title: RUSSIA: Sting wows Russian fans at sell-out concerts in Moscow
  • Date: 11th March 1996
  • Summary: PEOPLE ARRIVING FOR CONCERT
  • Embargoed: 26th March 1996 12:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA2B1PS5I1LGVNXZ7580GX4EL89
  • Story Text: British rock star Sting arrived in Moscow on Monday (March 11) for his first concert in Russia at the start of a year-long world tour.
    The singer will perform at two sold-out concerts in Moscow's Kremlin Palace on Wednesday (March 13) and Thursday.
    Sting also has a new album under his belt, "Mercury Falling", released last week (March 4).
    Mixing blues with country and a slice of Celtic folk, the album is Sting's fifth since he left the group Police, where he first tasted fame.
    In the 12 years since The Police disbanded, Sting has developed into one of pop music's most thoughtful, literate and innovative recording artists.
    At a news conference shortly after his arrival in Russia, he described how for most of his life Moscow was "something like another planet to me".
    "So I am very happy to be here, to make new friends and if you like me I'll come back," he said.
    His new songs such as, "I Hang My Head", "I Was Brought To My Senses", Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot", and "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" have integrated Sting's changing attitude about life, family and the community around him.
    "The new album which is called "Mercury Falling" is a reflection of a man who is 44 years old, who is facing the second half of his life with a mixture of hope and exhaustion,"he said.
    But he says he's very happy with this stage of his life.
    "What I learned is that the most successful period of my life was probably the most unhappy. Now I am extremely happy," he said.
    A self-confessed user of the drug ecstasy, Sting has made the headlines in the United Kingdom recently calling for the drug to be legalised.
    "A couple of people have died from taking E in England," he said. "And my comment was that they died from ignorance. Ignorance compounded by propaganda from the media."
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