Name: 57th and 9th
Brand: Sting

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

5711774

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2016-11-11

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

00602557117745

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Sting

Genre GB

Classic

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Sting, born Gordon Sumner on October 2, 1951 in Wallsend, England, is a multi-talented artist known for his roles as a musician (bassist), composer, singer-songwriter, actor, author, and activist. In 1977, he formed the band *The Police* with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers. The band achieved great success with five studio albums and received numerous awards including six Grammy Awards and two Brits. They were also inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.
Sting's career started with his involvement in various bands such as *The Phoenix Jazzmen*. It was during this time that he acquired the nickname "Sting" due to his black and yellow jersey resembling a bumblebee. He has since used this name almost exclusively. With an impressive solo career following the disbandment of The Police, Sting has received numerous accolades including 11 Grammy Awards, two Brits, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, four Oscar nominations and more.
Besides his musical achievements, Sting is also recognized for his activism work supporting human rights organizations like the Rainforest Fund and Amnesty International. Alongside his wife Trudie Styler,* he founded the Rainforest Fund in 1989 to protect rainforests worldwide along with their indigenous communities. Throughout his successful career spanning both The Police era and solo endeavors combinedly selling close to 100 million

180 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve. Sting’s twelfth solo studio album, 57th and 9th is his first pop / rock project in over a decade. The ten-song collection represents a wide range of Sting’s musical and songwriting styles, the first single I Can't Stop Thinking About You, shows Sting at his most propulsive and danceable, evidence of the influence his music continues to have on pop today. The album, produced Martin Kierszenbaum, takes its title from the Manhattan street corner that the musician would cross each day as he walked to the studios in Hell’s Kitchen where the recordings were done. Sting notes that if there’s a theme to be found in the lyrics of 57th and 9th, it’s the idea of travel and motion, most apparent in the autobiographical Heading South On The Great North Road and in Inshallah, an account of the global refugee crisis from a humanitarian point of view.

57th and 9th

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