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Ever since Sting finished up his reunion tour with The Police back in 2008, I haven’t heard much the singer which was a bummer for me because I absolutely love the guy. He must have been hard at work though because Sting recently announced that he is planning a world tour this summer, in which he will be performing his greatest hits re-worked for symphonic arrangement with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. The tour begins on June 2 in Vancouver and will go through North America before the UK leg of the tour is announced. Sting talked about the tour saying “I’m delighted by this new opportunity to tour with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and reinterpret the songs I’ve been playing for many years.”

Category : Concert, Sting

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Here’s the list of high-profile celebrities who will feature in George Clooney’s telethon for earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

From New York: Wyclef Jean, Jennifer Hudson, Bruce Springsteen, Mary J. Blige, Shakira and Sting.

From Los Angeles: Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, and Taylor Swift will make appearances. Keith Urban, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow will perform together.

From London: Coldplay will drop in, while Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z and Rihanna will perform together.

RadarOnline provided the exclusive on the list after teasing it earlier this week. The Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief telethon will take place on Friday. Clooney plans to helm from Los Angeles, Jean from New York and Anderson Cooper to report from Haiti.

Category : Keith Urban, Sting

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The singer is apparently getting tangled up in the political scene these days. Sting has expressed his full-fledged support of president Barack Obama whom he reveres very much. In addition, Sting also said the following about the presidents opposition: “It’s aggressive and violent and full of fear. They don’t want change, they want things to feel the same because they feel safe there. My hope is that we can start talking about real issues and not caring about whether God cares about your hemline or your color. We are here to evolve as one family, and we can’t be separate anymore.” Strange how some people find that the USA is the world and only what happens there is truly significant. You’d expect somebody who preaches change to be a little less narrow-minded.

Category : Barack Obama, Sting

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Attention fans. You can now have a piece of Sting in Vintage formula. This after Gordon Sumner aka Sting announed he would bottle his own wine straight from his own estate. Sting is the newest in the long lien of celebrities inclduing Francis Ford Coppola, Madonna and Paul Newman to have launched their own bottles of wine. Sting is set to come out with 30,000 bottled of red wine straight from his Tuscan Estate by September.

Sting said he will market two types of red wines inlcuding Chianti DOC and one vased on the Sangiovese grape. The 57-year old singer has not yet decided on a name for his Vintage wines but suffice it to say that his produce can be characterized as “rocl music wine” as his estate manager Paolo Rossi would like us to believe. Sting and his wife Trudie Styler owns a 300-hectare Italian villa which they purchased back in 1997. The villa, which is now a workign organic farm, will produce not only wine but also olive oil and honey. Sting’s honey and olive oil products are being sold under the name II Palagio Sumner Family through the Harrods Department Store.Incidentally, a certain percentage of the earnings from the wine will go to the Rainforest Foundation and the Soil Association.

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Which is more likely – Sting writing ‘Roxanne’ about prostitutes while traveling in Paris or Sting co-writing it in the basement of his Reno home with a guy he met at a restaurant? According to a police report filed by Roy Smith, Sting heard him singing at Molly’s Garden Restaurant in 1977, thought he was good and asked him to hang out. They hung out in Sting’s basement drinking beers, during which time, Smith told Sting about an ex named Roxanne who was a prostitute and about writing letters to his late father which he then put in a bottle. Smith claims that Sting agreed to give him royalties for the songs, but never did. But that’s not all – Smith also claims that Sting tried to contact him through his mom but that she didn’t relay the messages because she though that the real police were after her son. Stupid!

Category : Funny, Rocker, Rumor, Song, Sting

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