What genre is nothing like the Sun by Sting?

Singles from …Nothing Like the Sun. …Nothing Like the Sun is the second solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Sting. The album was originally released on 13 October 1987 on A&M (worldwide). The album explores the genres of pop rock, soft rock, jazz, reggae, world, acoustic rock, dance-rock, and funk rock.

When did the last ship by Sting come out?

Sting’s eleventh studio album, titled The Last Ship, featuring music from, or originally intended for the musical, was released on 24 September 2013.

What was Sting’s inspiration for the musical the last ship?

Inspired by Sting’s own childhood experiences and the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, the musical premiered in the summer of 2014, at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, before moving to the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway.

What is the story behind the last ship?

The Last Ship, which would cost around $15 million to stage, was initially inspired by Sting’s 1991 album The Soul Cages and Sting’s own childhood experiences. It tells the story about community and the demise of the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, with the closure of the town’s Swan Hunter shipyard.

What do you think of Sting’s’The Sting’album?

A powerful, often hypnotic album that blends jazz and rock styles into a thoughtful suite of twelve songs about love, politics and the meaning of the individual life – avoids the self-conscious stiffness that marred Sting’s first solo LP, ‘The Dream of the Blue Turtles’.

Is nothing like the Sun written by Anthony Burgess?

For the Anthony Burgess novel, see Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare’s Love Life. …Nothing Like the Sun is the second solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Sting. The album was originally released on 13 October 1987 on A&M (worldwide).

What does Sting’s sonnet’nothing like the Sun’mean?

Against the extravagant imagery of much Elizabethan love poetry, that sonnet articulates a human-scale vision of love for a flesh-and-blood woman, who far from standing on a pedestal, “treads on the ground.” Similarly, on ‘…Nothing Like The Sun’, Sting resists, for the most part, his tendency to drift into the mystic.