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Sacred Love

On the day that the second live album of Sting’s illustrious solo career (and third if you count the Police’s 1995 LIVE set) was to be recorded in Tuscany, Italy, the widely respected singer/songwriter/bassist was beset with one of the world’s worst horrors of all-time. The show was to be recorded and broadcast live on the web on September 11, 2001, the day of the World Trade Center tragedy. Instead of canceling it altogether, Sting went on with the recording (although the web broadcast was scrapped except for a single song), resulting in the release of the 15-song ALL THIS TIME, just two short months later. Featured are a trio of Police-era classics inventively re-arranged (“Roxanne,” “Don’t Stand So Close To Me,” and “Every Breath You Take”), plus renditions of such solo selections as the expansive “(If You Love Somebody) Set Them Free,” “Brand New Day,” “If I Ever Lose My Faith In You,” and the poignant folk-like ballad “Fields of Gold.”

SACRED LOVE seems like the culmination of a process that began 10 years earlier with Sting’s TEN SUMMONER’S TALES album. While his first three solo albums were dense, cerebral affairs, that one began a move towards simplification and broader commercial appeal. While SACRED LOVE’s predecessor was perhaps Sting’s slickest, most pop-oriented album, this one seems to strike an easy balance between his weighty lyrical concerns and a broad-based, accessible sound.

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british, classic rock, Pop, Rock, Sacred Love, singer-songwriter, Sting