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Article: Sting gives Elizabethan composer new voice.(ARTS & CULTURE)(MUSIC)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 14, 2006
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Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The late science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick prophesied that songs by the Elizabethan composer John Dowland would one day by covered by a pop singer named Linda Fox, a thinly disguised version of Linda Ronstadt.
Such a scenario seemed less likely to materialize than Mr. Dick's predictions of a police state but now a single-monikered pop phenomenon has released an album of Dowland songs on one of the world's foremost classical music labels.
Judging from the tale Sting tells in his intelligent liner notes, the pairing was inevitable.
The actor John Bird first mentioned Dowland's name to Sting in 1982, when ...