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Article: The years have been good to Sting
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 13, 2005
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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. ...