Sting Reveals The Long Road To 'The Last Ship' (A Top Story)
. "I've been thinking about this project for a long long time," he says. "I've probably been thinking about it my whole life! This is the town I was born and raised in, I'm telling the story of my young life in allegorical form. I come from a very tough town in the north of England, it's tough economically too, so I'm telling my story. This is where I come from!" It probably would have been more commercially viable for the legendary artist to include lots of hits from his catalog in the show, there are only three songs from his pre-2013 catalog included (in 2013, he released a solo album, also called The Last Ship, featuring songs that are used in the musical). And the older songs he did decide to include in the show aren't necessarily his most popular ones: it features "Island of Souls" and "All This Time," both from 1990's The Soul Cages (the latter song was actually a top ten hit at the time) and "When We Dance," a song written for 1994's Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994. He explains why he used those three songs: "It's set in a shipyard in the north of England. I wrote an album called The Soul Cages in 1990, which really was about that very subject. so it was fitting to begin the play there. There's a song called 'Island of Souls' and a song called 'All This Time.' And then we go into new material." But surely the inclusion of songs from Sting's past may have tempted the show's other producers to ask for more catalog hits. "I could have done a 'jukebox musical' but I didn't want to," he says. Read more - here. Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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