When vinyl was first pronounced dead, at the beginning of the 1990's, record companies stopped making 7" singles for shops. Howev...

When Police frontman Sting starred in the movie Brimstone and Treacle, an adaption of a play of the same name, he wrote and co-wrote the maj...

'Englishman in New York' was taken from Sting's 1987 album 'Nothing like the sun'. The 'Englishman' in question ...

'Love is the seventh wave' was the second single from Sting's 1985 solo debut album 'The dream of the blue turtles'. The...

'We'll be together' was originally written by Sting for a beer commercial for Kirin Brewery Company. The original recording incl...

Sting commented about 'All this time': 'It's about the death of my father, so its pretty dark as a record but on this song t...

'The soul cages' was released in 1991 as Sting's third solo album. The album was written as a concept album, focused on the deat...

'Englishman in New York' was originally a track on Sting's second album 'Nothing like the sun'. When it was released as ...

'If I ever lose my faith in you' was released as the second single from Sting's 1993 album 'Ten summoner's tales' in...

Although 'Fields of gold' was covered by Eva Cassidy and reportedly brought many people to tears, it still is a bit of an overlooked...

Bizarrely, Mark Knopfler from the Dire Straits wrote 'Money for nothing' during a visit at a New York appliance store. At the back o...

Sting released his third solo album 'The soul cages' in 1991. The album was dedicated to his recently deceased father and had a suit...

Although the Police never formally broke up, 1985 was the year in which all three members started concentrating on solo projects. The most s...

In 1987, Sting was going through his messiah phase, thinking that his status as a rock star could give him the power to save the world. He t...

'Moon over Bourbon Street' is a track from Sting's debut solo album 'The dream of the blue turtles'. The lyric of the so...

Earlier this year, Sting released 'If on a winter's night', a collection of not necessarily Christmas songs, but Winter songs. B...

Sting wrote 'Fortress around your heart' in the studio in Barbados in 1985. He commented about the song: '[it] is about appeasem...

'Why should I cry for you?' was the fourth and last single released from Sting's third solo album 'The Soul Cages'. It w...

'Fragile' was released as a single from Sting's 1987 album 'Nothing like the sun'. It was released as a limited edition ...

The song that embodied the Christmas spirit in the Eighties was Band Aid's 'Do they know it's Christmas?'. The project initi...