Sting - 1988-05-06 - Verona, Italy (FM)

Sting

1988-05-06

Verona Arena

Verona, Italy

FM broadcast

256 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Lazarus Heart > Too Much Information

02. We'll Be Together

03. Englishman In New York

04. Sister Moon

05. Rock Steady

06. Straight To My Heart

07. One World (Not Three)

08. If You Love Somebody

09. Bring On The Night > When The World Is Running Down

10. They Dance Alone

11. Consider Me Gone

12. King Of Pain

13. Be Still My Beating Heart

14. Walking In Your Footsteps

15. Fragile

16. Little Wing

17. Russians

18. Fortress Around Your Heart

19. Don't Stand So Close To Me

20. Caro Mio Bien

21. Every Breath You Take

22. Message In A Bottle

Sting - 1988-05-06 - Verona, Italy (FM) 

This FM broadcast from May 6, 1988, 24 years ago today, features Sting in Verona, Italy on tour in support of the album Nothing Like The Sun. The album went to #9 in the US, propelled to that spot by the single, We’ll Be Together, which rose to the #7 position on the Billboard charts. The disc did even better in other parts of the,world, reaching the #1 position, for example, in the UK, Japan and Italy, as climbing to the #3 spot in France, Canada, Austria and Switzerland. In addition to We’ll Be Together, the album spawned 2 other top 100 singles in the US, Englishman in New York which charted at #84 and Be Still My beating Heart, which rose to the #15 position. As mentioned in the Buenos Aires concert post, the album was inspired by 2 tragic events in Sting’s life - the death of his mother and the civil oppression in Latin America that he had witnessed while participating in a 1986 Amnesty International tour. The somber tone of the album, however, did not stop it from becoming Sting’s best selling disc worldwide, with sales of over 11 million copies. Download this on, therefore, to hear Sting play tunes from his best-selling album along with his earlier solo work and a host of songs from his days with the Police.