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Sting blasts government’s lack of ‘decency’ as he backs Afghan war hero

Exclusive: Sting is backing The Independent’s campaign to stop an Afghan pilot who served alongside coalition troops from being deported to Rwanda

The Independent UK

Sting, Nikki Sixx and Paul McCartney to guest on new Dolly Parton album

Rockstar sees McCartney reunite with Ringo Starr for a cover of The Beatles Let It Be, with Mick Fleetwood and Peter Frampton also making up the numbers

Guitar World

Dolly Parton has released the first single from her rock album and it most definitely rocks

World On Fire comes from Dolly Parton's upcoming album Rockstar - live video now online

Louder

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Sting weighs in on the Ed Sheeran Thinking Out Loud case and why he's not worried about AI songwriting: "It's soul work, and machines don't have souls"

"No one can claim a set of chords," he says of the recent court case in a new Music Week interview

MusicRadar

Live Theatre refunds ticket-holders following postponement of Nadine Shah's debut show

Singer-songwriter Nadine Shah had been set to make her playwriting debut and take a starring role in a new drama at the Newcastle theatre as part of its 50-year birthday celebrations

Chronicle Live

Dolly Parton reveals starry list of collaborators for first rock album

-U.S. country music star Dolly Parton has teamed up with the likes of former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, veteran singers Elton John and Sting as well as her goddaughter Miley Cyrus, for her upcoming record "Rockstar", her first rock album which will be released in November.

Reuters

Dolly Parton releases track list for first-ever rock album

Country star to be joined by Sir Elton John, Sting, Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr on first rock venture

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Dolly Parton details long-awaited, much-hyped, star-studded rock album

Dolly Parton's 30-song, 4LP Rockstar comes out in November and includes a stellar list of guest performers and versions of Free Bird, Purple Rain and We Are The Champions

Louder

Dolly Parton reveals star-studded tracklist for first-ever rock album

‘Rockstar’ features a Beatles reunion, Lizzo and Miley Cyrus

The Independent UK

Rarely-seen Jimmy Nail pictured on night out with Geordie legends Alan Shearer and Sting

Jimmy Nail caught up with Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer and singing superstar Sting on a night on the town and the Geordies had plenty to discuss after their football team's great season

Daily Mirror

PSA: The trailer for Dune: Part Two looks dope, whatever the rest of the PC Gamer team think

"Didn't all the interesting characters die?" is one of several takes I am choosing to ignore while clambering aboard the hype worm.

PC Gamer

Residents object to liquor licence to serve booze at next month's Malahide Castle concerts

Depeche Mode, Paolo Nutini, Blur, Sam Fender, Florence and The Machine, Sting and Hozier will headline over seven nights from June 14th to 30th

Irish Mirror

Sting will play a guitar made from migrant boat wood – and built by inmates – at an Italian jail housing mafia bosses

The Police songwriter is set to perform at a Naples prison and has said he’ll use an instrument that has been built by prisoners, using wood salvaged from a migrant craft

Guitar World

Sting backs teachers' strike and brands Tories 'a disgrace' over pay dispute

The 71-year-old was a primary school teacher before he found stardom, and he says educating children is too important to skimp on

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Chronicle Live

Alan Shearer in crowd as Sting performs special show in Newcastle with help from Jimmy Nail

Football legend Alan Shearer took to Twitter to share a photo of himself with Jimmy Nail and Sting in Newcastle

Chronicle Live

The crime movie with big-name stars that was filmed and set in 1980s Newcastle

Stormy Monday starring Sting, Melanie Griffith and Tommy Lee Jones had its premiere in America in April 1988, finally arriving in British cinemas the following year

Guitar World

Ian Bairnson, guitarist for the Alan Parsons Project and Kate Bush, dies aged 69

The Scottish session player performed the solo on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, and collaborated with the likes of Paul McCartney, Sting and Mick Fleetwood

Daily Mirror

Diddy admits he still pays Sting an eye-watering sum each day for sampling hit song

Diddy claims he still pays The Police star Sting thousands of pounds a day for sampling his hit Every Breath You Take in his 1990s record I'll Be Missing You

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France 24

IMF predicts five-year economic dip, with low-income countries hardest hit

We look at why the IMF's predicted economic growth of just 3 percent, the lowest forecast since 1990, could hurt developing nations most. We also take a closer look at Airbus's deal in China, as French President Emmanuel Macron meets his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Finally, we find out why…

Los Angeles Times

Sting said he got $2,000 a day off a rap sample. Diddy took 5 years to correct him

Thanks to "Every Breath You Take," Diddy is paying Sting every day he wakes — generously.

Fortune

‘Diddy’ says he pays Sting $5k every single day for sampling his hit song without permission

The Police frontman said he put his kids through college with the income.

MusicRadar

Diddy says that he has to pay Sting $5,000 a day for his use of the Every Breath You Take sample in I’ll Be Missing You

Every little play of it is magic for the former Police frontman, but not for guitarist Andy Summers…

The Guardian - UK

Shy by Max Porter review – exhilarating portrait of a lost boy in 90s Britain

A young delinquent takes stock of his bad luck and bad decisions in this brief but brilliant novel from the author of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers

Chronicle Live

The best April Fools Day pranks by celebrities - including Ant & Dec, Cheryl, James Corden & more

There have been a number of absolute corkers over the years by celebrities, both local and further afield. Here's our pick of the bunch.

The Orange County Register

Stewart Copeland breaks down The Police in a new book and orchestral live show

ANAHEIM, Calif. — As he sifted through the hours and hours of Super 8 footage for the 2006 rockumentary, “Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out,” The Police drummer Stewart Copeland knew he needed familiar music from the band to go along with the film.

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