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Police & Sting items on eBay
by Andi Hazelwood 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZaQ2ehaze Yet another batch of memorabilia and records up for sale... good luck! Andi _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Muzak Sucks!
by Phil Carreon 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

I'm sure most of you would agree, but Muzak is from the pit of Hades! I work in a large Mercedes dealer outside of LA. This crap is piped throughout the entire building. I work 11 hours a day and after hearing the same Shania Twain or same Rod Stewart song for the 42nd time in the same day, I want to walk around my office with pillows stuffed in my ears!

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From Film Stew.com - The Constant Sting of Constantine
by Anne Robinson 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Saturday, February 19, 2005 The Constant Sting of Constantine For some, the fact that Gordon Sumner, a.k.a. Sting, never got a chance to play the British comic book superhero that he inspired is a slap in the face of synchronicity. Back in 1985, when British comic book writer Alan Moore first introduced a character by the name of John Constantine, Sting was a full bore multimedia superhero. He had conquered arenas with The Police, begun a solo career and was starring in films such as Dune, Plenty and Brimstone and Treacle. So perhaps it’s no surprise that when Moore first turned to writers Steve Bissette and John Totleben around that time and asked them for a wish list of things they would like to add to Swamp Thing, both of them mentioned the idea of a character that looked like the runaway pop star. Thus, the supernatural detective John Constantine was born, although as Moore pointed out in a 1993 issue of Wizard Magazine, DC Comics went to great lengths thereafter to remove all traces of the character’s Gordon Sumner ties: ‘I think DC is terrified that Sting will sue them, although Sting has seen the character and commented in Rolling Stone that he thought it was great,’ Moore opined at the time. ‘He was very flattered to have a comic character who looked like him, but DC gets nervous about these things. They started to eradicate all traces of references in the introduction of the early Swamp Thing books to John Constantine's resemblance to Sting . But I can state categorically that the character only existed because Steve and John wanted to do a character that looked like Sting.’ Part of the reason the setting for this weekend’s Warner Brothers film was changed from London to Los Angeles is that it was felt Keanu Reeves – who took over the Americanized end of things from an originally attached Nicolas Cage – could not convincingly play a Brit. And so, the closest we’re left with is this actual Sting sighting by Moore, which gave him chills: ‘One day, I was in Westminster in London - this was after we had introduced the character -- and I was sitting in a sandwich bar,’ Moore explains in the same Wizard Magazine interview. ‘All of a sudden, up the stairs came John Constantine. He was wearing the trenchcoat, a short cut - he looked - no, he didn't even look exactly like Sting. He looked exactly like John Constantine.’ ‘He looked at me, stared me straight in the eyes, smiled, nodded almost conspiratorially, and then just walked off around the corner to the other part of the snack bar,’ adds Moore. ‘I sat there and thought, should I go around that corner and see if he is really there, or should I just eat my sandwich and leave? I opted for the latter; I thought it was the safest. I'm not making any claims to anything. I'm just saying that it happened. Strange little story.’ As Constantine begins racking up its record February box office numbers, you can bet more than a few blokes in pubs around the United Kingdom are bemoaning this weekend what could have been. But the way Hollywood works theses days, it’s still not too late for an animated TV series about a crime fighting English teacher from Newcastle who moonlights as a jazz musician. (Richard Horgan) ~Anne

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Wicked (yes Sting related)
by Josh Corwin 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Hey there...Nicki & I saw wicked on broadway two days ago...It was incredible. For all those in the NY area...it's really worth the ticket price. Amazing when I think about how much a Sting ticket is versus a broadway show. This was 30 people and 30 musicians for 1/4 of the price of a single ticket to Sting at the Borgata. Anyway, the related part of this is a quote I found about the composer of Wicked: When Stephen and I discussed Wicked, <http://www.musicalschwartz.com/wicked.htm> particularly the song "What is This Feeling," he suggested an amalgamation of influences, possibly from singer-songwriter Sting and from the musical Chess - music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (of ABBA) and lyrics by Tim Rice. Carol de Giere: ...You've talked about the "mishmash" of influences. Stephen Schwartz: All this stuff is around in your head, and I never know how it's all going to reconstitute and come out. Sting album cover <http://www.musicalschwartz.com/recordings/img-nonschwartzcds/sting.jpg> ...I'm a huge fan of Sting and he was very very influential in many ways on my writing. "Stranger to the Rain" in Children of Eden is so influenced by Sting. There's a song by Sting he does with the Police (The Very Best of... Sting <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000060KB6/musicalschwar-20> & the Police - Amazon.com link) [new browser window] called "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic." But again it's not like he ever used those chord changes or that particular rhythm but it's the sensibility.

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stingus
by mr beat 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Every time I go to log in at stingus.net It won't let me! WHats the deal? Is their a site admin I can contact to reset my password or sometin? ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Adrian Belew mentions Stewart
by Brian A Baker 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

In a recent interview, Adrian Belew breifly mentions Stewart... http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/Interviews05/adrianbelew.htm Brian

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Re: [Police] muzak EBYT
by Stingfan222＠aol.com 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

In a message dated 2/15/05 11:36:59 AM, krapola(a)shaw.ca writes: > If this happens to me, you are all intructed to euthanize me. > Get ready, it's happened to me. Other songs too. Just face it, not only is Sting getting old, we are too. Michelle in TX

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Re: [Police] story about "Roxanne" in Blender Magazine
by foxie 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

i will post this before the weekend - on bizness right now, away from my scanner... rich --- DtmrCls(a)aol.com wrote: > Great! > D. then > > > > will send you a copy, D. with pleasure... > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Sting - now an object of science!
by Mikkel Z. Herold 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

With all of this talk about Sting's music becoming muzak, I thought I'd share this one to balance things out: A group of Danish scientists at the Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience under the Danish National Research Foundation (http://www.cfin.au.dk/) have conducted a study about music in the brain. Basically, they had a group of expert musicians and a group of non-musicians, and they studied which parts of their brains were active when they listened to music that contained a "a non-musical break in the rhythm". What does this have to do with Sting? The song that they used in the experiment was The Lazarus Heart. The study has resulted in a paper entitled "Keep The Rhythm! Polymetrics in StingÂ’s music activate BrocaÂ’s area and its right hemisphere homologue". You can read about the project here: http://www.cfin.au.dk/index.php?menu=192 and those who understand Danish can check out a tv programme about the study here: http://www.dr.dk/Videnskab/viden_om/Programmer/Musik+pa+hjernen/0214125839.… (click the link "Se udsendelsen" in the top box). Mikkel -- "At first just a rustle of canvas And the gentlest breath on my face But a galloping line of white horses Said that soon we were in for a race" Sting - The Wild Wild Sea http://www.mzh.dk

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Muzak
by Sweetmomb＠cs.com 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Do you remember the bit on Saturday Night Live some years back? Paul Simon is in an elevator and they start playing muzak versions of his songs, and Jon Lovitz appears as the devil and says to him,"You're not in an elevator! You're in hell!!!" There ya go! ;-) Holly

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