ON THIS DAY...

2015: Sting appeared as Jackie White in The Last Ship at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York.
1993: Sting was rehearsing his new 'Summoner's Tales' material at a studio in Camden Town, London.
SUMMONER'S TALES...
"I would play 33 rpm records at 45 rpm and hear the bass parts revealed, rescued from the bowels of the arrangement an octave higher, and the fast sections of the upper octaves on forty-fives so that they could be learned at a slower speed. I realised from these experiments that anything, no matter how complex, could be deconstructed and learned if you slowed it down enough to really hear it."