Monday Open Thread | Sting Week

Posted on October 22, 2018 by rikyrah

Hello Everyone. I’ll be off for a week of spiritual nourishment.

Say well and BE.YOUR.BEST.SELF.

Sixteen-time Grammy-award winning British rock star, Sting has released his first collection of original songs in a decade. The album’s entitled, 57th

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1985, and launched a solo career in 1986.
He has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age and worldbeat in his music.

As a solo musician and a member of the Police, he has received 16 Grammy Awards (his first in the category of best rock instrumental in 1980, for “Reggatta de Blanc”), three Brit Awards, including Best British Male in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2002, he received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording. In 2003, Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music. He was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at the White House in 2014, and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2017.

With the Police, Sting became one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Solo and with the Police combined, he has sold over 100 million records. In 2006, Paste ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters. He was 63rd of VH1’s 100 greatest artists of rock, and 80th of Q magazine’s 100 greatest musical stars of the 20th century.He has collaborated with other musicians, including “Money for Nothing” with Dire Straits, “Rise & Fall” with Craig David, “All for Love”, with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, “You Will Be My Ain True Love” with Alison Krauss, and introduced the North African music genre raï to Western audiences through his international hit “Desert Rose” with Cheb Mami.


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60 Responses to Monday Open Thread | Sting Week

  5. Ametia says:
    October 22, 2018 at 4:06 pm
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    • Liza says:
      October 22, 2018 at 12:54 pm

      I don’t see how this guy escaped life without parole. That should have been his sentence.

      His son who survived has cerebral palsy. And now this POS is saying he wants custody. The kid’s grandmother says it will never happen.

      Carruth should count his blessings that he’s been released and then GO AWAY and leave those people alone.

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    • Liza says:
      October 22, 2018 at 8:43 am

      They cut people’s heads off all the time in Saudi Arabia. It was just business as usual. And they are our “allies.”

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    • Liza says:
      October 22, 2018 at 8:54 am

      Andrew Gillum can win this. If the Democrats do as well as they did in 2016 AND flip Duval County (which they can), Andrew Gillum is the next governor of Florida!

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    • Ametia says:
      October 22, 2018 at 10:45 am

      GOOD! Remember what the ugly racists Republicans are saying when they use Jim crow tactics of voter suppression and gerrymandering is

      WE KNOW YOU’RE NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR OUR RACISTS, NASTY, POWER-HUNGRY, WHITE SUPREMACIST ASSES,

      SO YOU.CAN’T VOTE AT ALL.

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  39. rikyrah says:
    October 22, 2018 at 6:35 am

    There was a debate between the candidates for Governor in Florida last night.

    https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1054184368212766720

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  40. rikyrah says:
    October 22, 2018 at 6:35 am

    I 😍😍😍 Sting

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  41. vitaminlover says:
    October 22, 2018 at 6:34 am

    Good morning, rikyrah!

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  42. rikyrah says:
    October 22, 2018 at 6:16 am

    Good Morning Everyone 😄😄😄

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