Article: The years have been good to Sting

STING, Delta Center, Monday.

The Beatles have been stung. It happened during the Sting concert Monday.

Sting, the former Police chief, paid tribute to the Fab Four, his favorite band, and played "A Day In a Life" in its entirety.

The feat was done without keyboards and samplers. Instead, Sting, who was born Gordon Sumner, relied on his band -- himself on the bass, drummer Josh Freese (of A Perfect Circle) and guitarists Dominic Miller and Shane Fontaine -- to pull the progressive psychedelic stunts.

Ironically, Sting calls this round of concerts "The Broken Music Tour." Music is one thing that isn't broken.

Still, irony was one of the show's strong points.

First, there were no video screens. ...

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