Featured Fan: Pamela Hudson (Kimberly1967)

September 13, 2014

Name: Pamela Hudson

Username: Kimberly1967 (in honor of my sister)

Location: Washington, DC and Kentucky, USA.

Been a fan since: I was a school girl, enlivened by the energy of The Police. 'Reggatta de Blanc', 'Zenyatta Mandatta', 'Ghost in the Machine'. 'Synchronicity' was my first concert, my freshman year of college. His solo albums are all treasures as well.

Favourite Sting song: All.

Favourite Police song: All.

Favourite Sting album: All.

Favourite Police album: All.

Most memorable concert: I've been privileged to see a fair number of his concerts over the years. Each is special to me in its unique way. Symphonicity was particularly magical. I do hope that the best is to come!

Other favourite bands: U2, Coldplay, Dire Straits, Bruno Mars, Bob Marley, English Beat, Coletrane, Yellowjackets.

In your own words: The creative genius of Sting created a soundtrack for my life. His music has provided me with abundant comfort, joy, and inspiration. His global consciousness and ability to reach across artificial, man-made barriers facilitate creating something more universally appealing for humanity. He is clearly a thoughtful, diligent artist in perpetual motion. It would be very nice to meet him at some point and thank him for his work. He's simply amazing!

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Sep 9, 2014

The new Sting production, The Last Ship, is a reflection on the singer's past and a study of working-class woes. There's nothing campier than the collapse of a British industrial town. Or at least that's what a handful of recent Broadway shows would have us believe. In the past decade, we’ve seen musicals about unemployed blokes who are saved from despair by drag queens (Kinky Boots) and male stripping (The Full Monty), and even Billy Elliot took a break from the hero's tender ballet dreams to stage a zany puppet show about Margaret Thatcher. It all makes losing your job seem kind of fabulous. But Sting might disagree. This fall the singer pays tribute to his own working-class roots with The Last Ship, a Broadway production inspired by the demise of the shipbuilding trade in his hometown of Wallsend near Newcastle. Though it's filled with feeling (and plenty of comic relief), the show won'’t be shooting glitter - literally or metaphorically - over its audience...