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Article: STING ON THE RISE\With 'Mercury,' he plumbs new artistic depths.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- March 3, 1996
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Byline: Melinda Newman Billboard
Sounding like the schoolteacher he once was, Sting describes the meaning behind the title of his new A&M album, "Mercury Falling": "It's a phrase that I find laden with symbolic relevance. It means so many things. Mercury is a metal, a liquid, an element, a planet. It's an astrological symbol, an astronomical thing. You know, Mercury is the god of theft and commerce. He's the messenger, too. He's quite a complex character, this Mercury. As am I."
The material on the just-released album is similarly rife with different interpretations: musically divergent and lyrically ambiguous. But as his seventh solo outing, it ...
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