Sounds lovely! Please clarify if you know if Sting and Annie Lenox will continue this tour in Europe too or as soon as Sting is back here, there will be him only? Cheers, Panda p.s. I would like to thank everybody who got back to me regarding Newcastle! It was really nice of you too share your ideas. Looks like you've enjoyed your encounter with this wonderful city. I hope I will too. As for the local people's accent, I still don't understand what Paul Carter says (and he even isn't from Newcastle) so I take it's not a good sign but I will survive. :) And Paul, Sweetie, if you read this, you should know better then that that I'm not having fun on your expense. On the contrary, that's the sign of my eternal love to you! :) :) :) -----Original Message----- From: StingUs [mailto:frotri@panafonet.gr] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 3:01 AM To: stingus@yahoogroups.com Subject: [stingus] Tour by '80s icons Sting, Lennox 'a very nice idea' Tour by '80s icons Sting, Lennox 'a very nice idea' Web Posted: 09/16/2004 02:17 PM CDT Hector Saldaña San Antonio Express-News Sometimes deciding to go on tour can be as easy as a phone call. Just ask Annie Lennox when she got word from Sting. "I got a phone call, and he invited me to join him on tour," Lennox told CNN this month. "And I said yes straight away." "I wasn't planning on going on tour with Sting. It was nothing that was on my agenda, because I'm a mother, and I take my kids to school in the morning. So you know, I wasn't planning to do that. But when I heard that, I thought, 'Yes, that's a very nice idea.'" Of course, it helps that the former Eurythmics star has a great album to promote, "Bare." The CD was released last October to critical praise. It's her first studio solo effort in more than 11 years. That she agreed to tour is a rarity also. Sting and Lennox perform tonight at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. Longtime Sting guitarist Dominic Miller ("Shapes") opens. Showtime is 7 p.m. This Christmas, the lovely rock diva turns 50, a subject she addressed in the CNN interview. "I would like to think that perhaps I could inspire women of my own age that might feel that because - because our society concentrates on youth culture so much, that we don't have to think that we're washed out by the time we're in our 40s. And a lot of us do. Because everything is about beauty and youth," she said. "And I'm actually now coming to my prime with my singing and my performance, and I'm surprised, myself, at that. So I'm kind of inspired to carry on. And I hope that I inspire women in particular, you know, that it's not the end when you're 50." Sting, 52, who was last here in January at the Majestic Theater, is promoting his latest album "Sacred Love." He recently became a Billboard Century Award honoree. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame star isn't letting a few wrinkles slow him down, either. The two superstars perform separate sets but will come together for "We'll Be Together" off Sting's 1987 album, "Nothing Like the Sun." Lennox has called it "a nice little moment." "For me, it's creating one show out of what would normally be two shows," Sting told the Associated Press. "People know they are going to get quality. It's our stage, and I want people to go away thinking, 'That was the best show that I ever saw.'" Tonight's set will feature songs from their solo careers, as well as with the Police and the Eurythmics. The nostalgia factor will complement (read: kick up a notch) the '80s icons' penchant for smoother, New Age pop. The Police were already superstars when the Eurythmics scored with a song recorded on a simple eight-track deck. Lennox and then-husband Dave Stewart burst onto the pop scene in the early '80s with the synth-pop hit "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." The iconoclastic, if MTV-friendly, duo scored with follow-ups such as "Here Comes the Rain" and "Would I Lie to You." She went solo in the early '90s (though she reunited with Stewart in 1999 for the Eurythmics album "Peace") and forged a new, more sophisticated pop sound, characterized by lush balladry. Her sense of bizarre high style never faded. Lennox received an Academy Award and Golden Globe this year for the song "Into the West," which was part of the "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" blockbuster. Ironically, she beat out Sting - a nominee for "You Will Be My Ain True Love" from "Cold Mountain." Cheers, StingUs-team www.stingus.net