06.28.10
St Louis Adult Entertainment: Sting sings with strings and more at the UNO Lakefront Arena
Kerry Maloney / The Times-PicayuneSting presided over classical revisions of Police and solo hits, some more radical than others.
At 58, Sting’s voice is undiminished; he can still sustain high notes and dial up nuance. And unlike his grin-and-bear-it posture at that Police show three years ago, he was chatty and gregarious. He prefaced many songs with anecdotes and one-liners, which went a long way toward neutralizing the obvious potential for pretention.
He recalled visiting New Orleans for the first time in 1979 following a Police show in Baton Rouge. Walking from Bourbon Street’s epicenter to quieter blocks, he felt as if he was being followed; that was the genesis of “Moon Over Bourbon Street.”
When writing “Tomorrow We’ll See,” he said he let the music inspire the lyrics. “What emerged from the music disturbed me greatly” – the tale of a transsexual male prostitute.
See the full article from “NOLA.com”