Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Sting - VH-1 Storytellers, Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett, NY, 7-15-1996

Next for the "VH-1 Storytellers" series is an episode by Sting, former lead singer of the band the Police.

In early 1996, Sting released his fifth solo studio album, "Mercury Falling." It did reasonably well by his standards, selling over a million copies in the U.S., but it didn't have any big hits in the U.S., a first for one of his albums. Only three of the songs performed here come from that album, "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot," "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying," and "Lithium Sunset."

This episode is rather unusual for the series, because Sting often stopped in the middle of performing a song to talk about the song structure. Then he would finish it off. That happened for five songs. It's an interesting technique, though I wish he would have saved the talking for before or after those songs.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 talk (Sting)
02 Message in a Bottle (Sting)
03 talk (Sting)
04 Message in a Bottle [Reprise] (Sting)
05 Every Breath You Take (Sting)
06 talk (Sting)
07 Every Breath You Take [Reprise] (Sting)
08 Fields of Gold (Sting)
09 talk (Sting)
10 Fields of Gold [Reprise] (Sting)
11 talk (Sting)
12 King of Pain (Sting)
13 talk (Sting)
14 King of Pain [Reprise] (Sting)
15 talk (Sting)
16 Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (Sting)
17 talk (Sting)
18 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Sting)
19 talk (Sting)
20 I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying (Sting)
21 talk (Sting)
22 I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying [Reprise] (Sting)
23 talk (Sting)
24 Roxanne (Sting)
25 talk (Sting)
26 Lithium Sunset (Sting)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17161582/STNG1996StrytllrsStphnTlkhuseAmgnsttNY__7-15-1996_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/X4fu4R6x

I couldn't find any really good images from this exact concert. So instead I used a photo taken somewhere in France some time in 1996.

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