{"id":949,"date":"2005-01-18T14:19:46","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=949"},"modified":"2005-01-19T02:01:06","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T07:01:06","slug":"an_englishman_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/an_englishman_i\/","title":{"rendered":"An Englishman in New Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I don&#8217;t drink coffee, I drink tea, my dear&#8230; Sting is giving a concert at Delhi&#8217;s Nehru Stadium <A href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/991112.cms\">on Feb. 6th<\/A>. Be still my beating heart.<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>On the occasion of his concert, a special Limited tour Edition of his latest album <SPAN style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">Sacred Love <\/SPAN>, which contains his rare singles, is being put together.&nbsp;The single, <SPAN style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">Sacred Love <\/SPAN>also has an Indian touch since it features Anoushka Shankar on the sitar.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>With Sting&#8217;s long-standing interest in yoga (he owns&nbsp;a studio in New York) and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/entertainment\/story\/sm_816090.html\">professed mastery<\/A> of tantric sex, it&#8217;s surprising he doesn&#8217;t play India more often. Maybe his Englishness gets in the way.<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<P style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">&#8220;&#8230; I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn&#8217;t say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.&#8221;<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P><EM>Please<\/EM> don&#8217;t label this the highlight of his career:<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Sting&#8217;s career hit a real high note in &#8217;94, when he, together with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, performed <SPAN style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">All For Love <\/SPAN>for the film, <SPAN style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">The Three Musketeers&#8230;<\/SPAN> [ToI]<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>What a repugnant thought.&nbsp;Sting, like Bono, is that rarest of birds, a thinking rocker with fractal lyrics that unfold. I spent many delicious hours on a bus through the USSR listening to &#8216;Russians&#8217; and &#8216;Fortress Around Your Heart.&#8217; U2&#8217;s &#8216;Vertigo&#8217; has bite, but they&#8217;ve both been putting out geriatric stuff lately which makes the young&#8217;uns look askance when you admit to being a fan. Plus there&#8217;s the whole megagroup thing, hipster ammo; screw it, I sometimes drink Starbucks.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t drink coffee, I drink tea, my dear&#8230; Sting is giving a concert at Delhi&#8217;s Nehru Stadium on Feb. 6th. Be still my beating heart. On the occasion of his concert, a special Limited tour Edition of his latest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/an_englishman_i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}