Sting Finds His Groove With a New Band on 'Bring on the Night'Subscribe to Diffuser. Restless in the Police, Sting did something that came naturally: He shook things up. At first, that meant gathering a series of world- class jazz musicians to record a solo debut, then inviting a film crew to document the band’s genesis. This same kind of gumption once led Sting to abandon a reliable career in teaching, “because I knew exactly what lay ahead for me. I could almost see what I was going to look like.
Log in with either your Library Card Number or EZ Login. Library ID (No Spaces!) or EZ Username Last Name or EZ Password. Sting of Death is a 1965 B-horror film directed by William Grefe and written by Al Dempsey and Herschell Gordon Lewis. Lotte Lenya, Actress: From Russia with Love. Lotte Lenya was a Tony Award-winning and Academy award-nominated actress and singer who is best remembered for her. 35 Years Ago: Remembering Joy Division’s Ian Curtis on the Anniversary of His Death. Float like a peace proposal, sting like a bumbling politician The press parses talks in Paris and a I prefer not knowing what’s around the corner.”Sting made those comments in Bring on the Night, the 1. Michael Apted of Coal Miner’s Daughter fame. An accompanying album didn’t arrive until July 3. Before I could tell everyone it was just a joke, there were 1. And I felt responsible, which is why I look so worried in the first part of the film.”The original movie focused on preparations for and their appearance in a Paris debut concert, and it pointedly avoided including any complete renditions of the songs. Bring on the Night, as an album, reaches past those early 1. By the time they reached in Rome, Arnhem and Paris (on a return trip), Sting and company had played more than 8. Only two of the album’s 1. Apted’s documentary. Gone, then, was the film’s inherent tension as Sting’s career veered away from Police drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers. So too were the tentativeness that surrounded his initial collaborations with a mixture of all African- American musicians. They included Darryl Jones, then of Miles Davis fame; drummer Omar Hakim, of Weather Report; vocalists Dolette Mc. Donald and Janice Pendarvis, veterans of tours with the Police and the Talking Heads; and keyboardist Kenny Kirkland and saxophonist Branford Marsalis, who’d both been working with Branford’s brother Wynton Marsalis. At this point, they’d become more than a new set of collaborators; they’d become a working group. Offering a collection of songs from The Dream of the Blue Turtles, Sting’s studio debut, and a sprinkling of choice Police songs . Music, for me, is difficult. I’ve always had to churn it out laboriously. Also, I am a pretty defensive person. They have a spontaneity that I lack in my own life. They help me let it out.”Listen to Sting Perform . Bring on the Night represented something in between, and in some cases it split opinion. That, as always, seemed fine with Sting . Or I could have just gone out and hired musicians to back me up. The third way was to form a new band. And that seemed to be the most natural, organic thing to do. The racial mix was accidental. I didn’t set out to hire all black musicians, but when I realized what was happening, I knew it was going to make an interesting clash.”In discussing this new direction, Sting was quick to to say that he didn’t think the rock music industry was racist. But it doesn’t make it easy for the musicians.”Free of convention, they eventually ran past the wide- open vistas of jazz improvisation, too. Their brand of reggae was rootsier than anything the Police had mustered, but they also pulled in elements of calypso, world music and pop. Stereotypes fell with each passing song, and Sting kept charging ahead. Marsalis recalled a particularly uncomfortable performance at the MTV Music Awards. You could just see the dislike on their faces, dislike of what we were doing. But no music survives in a vacuum. Musicians must take from each other or they stagnate. That’s why I’m working with Sting. His music has melody and something to say.”Sting’s desire to avoid standing pat also meant that Bring on the Night marked the end of an era. When 1. 98. 7’s Nothing Like the Sun arrived, only Marsalis, Kirkland and the singers Mc. Donald and Pendarvis returned as studio collaborators. They were all gone by. I’ve achieved everything I can with the Police, and there is nothing else for me to do there,” Sting told the Sun- Sentinel. But after a while, you get nothing but diminishing returns. Which is why I’m always looking for new things to do.”2. Summer Festival Guide. Next: Does the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Need Two Stings? Christ Has Conquered Death. Christ has risen from the dead! And because He lives, we who know Him shall live also. In the resurrection, Jesus Christ conquered sin and death and is alive forevermore. All over the world, churches are filled with worshipers because there is an empty tomb in Jerusalem. We worship a risen, living Savior, who has promised to give immortality to all who believe on His name. No longer do men and women need to stumble in the fog and the darkness of hopelessness. A Light shines brighter than the noonday sun, offering hope to everyone who has been born again. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. We expect death, but we always have a glimmer of hope that medical science will discover something that will keep us alive a little longer. Death carries with it a certain dread. From the day that Abel was killed, people have dreaded death. It has been the enemy, the great, mysterious monster, that makes people quake with fear. The Bible always links sin and death. Death is no respecter of race, color or creed. Its shadow haunts us day and night. We never know when the moment of death will come for us. Is there any hope? Is there a possibility of immortality? I take you to an empty tomb in the garden of Joseph of Arimathea. Mary, Mary Magdalene and Salome had gone to anoint the body of the crucified Christ. They had been startled to find the tomb empty. An angel sat on the stone by the door of the tomb and said, ! The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the chief proof of the Christian faith. It is the truth that lies at the very foundation of the Gospel. Other doctrines of the Christian faith are important, but the resurrection is essential. Without a belief in the resurrection there can be no personal salvation. Romans 1. 0: 9). In the resurrection of Jesus Christ we have the answer to the great question of the ages: . The greatest truth that you can ever hear is that Jesus Christ died but rose again, and that you, too, will die but can rise again into newness of life. The Bible teaches the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is not a spiritual resurrection, as some would have us believe. Though He is in His glorified body in Heaven, yet through the Holy Spirit He dwells in the heart of every Christian. The Christ of God, in whom . Colossians 2: 9), condescends to live within the hearts of people. This is a mystery that is beyond comprehension and yet gloriously true. When we come to Jesus Christ, we bring everything that we have. Our bodies with all their members, our faculties, our talents, our time, our money, our possessions, our hearts, our will, are all His. Our faces become the faces in which the resurrected Christ shows forth His beauty and His glory. Our eyes become the eyes of the resurrected Christ, to exhibit His sympathy and His tenderness. He wants to look on the world. Your eyes should never be lent to the devil; they belong to God. Be careful how you use your eyes! Our lips become the lips of the resurrected Christ, to speak His messages. The harsh, unkind words remain unspoken. Other people marvel at the gracious words that come out of our mouths. When He was on earth, the people said, . And this is the One who lives within you. Your lips become an instrument for the expression of His message. His words are spirit and life. The word going forth out of His mouth cannot return unto Him void. Remember, your lips are His; they should never be lent to the devil. Our ears become the ears of the resurrected Christ. They will be sensitive to every cry of spiritual need. Jesus living in us today listens through our ears and hears the plaintive cry of the world. Take heed what you hear. Refuse to hear the voice of the tempter or give your sanction to the spread of false reports and idle rumors concerning others. Cultivate spiritual thinking. Your intellect becomes His so that He may plan through you and you may be an instrument for the realization of His purpose. Yield your mind to Him so that you may know His secrets and be kept in His will. Never lend your mind to the devil; the mind is the devil. He will work through us. The living Christ dwells in our hearts and gives us power to live the victorious life. The Apostle Paul said that the same power that raised Christ from the dead is ours to enable us to live for Him! The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him throughout the earthly pilgrimage. Let your feet direct you only to those places where Christ wants you to go. We are to allow the resurrected Christ to allocate our time as His own; to control our money as His own; to energize our talents, our zeal and our ability with His resurrected life; to have complete right- of- way throughout our beings. He does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar. Not only does the resurrection give us hope of immortality but it also provides Life with a capital . Before the resurrection of Christ, the Holy Spirit came upon individuals only on certain occasions for special tasks. But now, after the resurrection, Christ through the Holy Spirit dwells in the heart of every believer to give us supernatural power in living our daily lives. The Scripture says that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead on the first Easter will raise us from the dead if the Spirit lives in us. Call upon His resources. His grace is more than sufficient; He will cause you always to triumph over the world, the flesh and the devil. Perhaps you do not know the power of the resurrected Christ. You have never knelt at the foot of the cross and had your sins forgiven. On that first Good Friday, Jesus Christ died on the cross in your place. He took your judgment, your sin, your death. That fact is a guarantee that the atoning work of Christ on the cross was acceptable to God in your place. Now you need to receive Him and to believe on Him. God says that He will clothe you in His righteousness. Everyone can know the power of the resurrected Christ. Through disappointments and trials, through all the circumstances of life, the resurrected Christ will go with you, if you will put your trust in Him by faith. At this glorious Easter season, what a time to give your life to Christ, to bend your will to His; to let the resurrected Christ come to dwell in your heart and give you supernatural power to meet the problems of the day. So many people are confused, lonely, discouraged. Give your life to Christ. Let Him transform your life so that you will have a glow on your face, a spring in your step and joy in your soul. First, you need to renounce your sins. Second, by faith receive Him as your Savior. Will you do that today? If you will, the resurrected Christ will come to live in your heart!
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