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A Sting Thing

It's hard to explain, but I still need him.

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Apr 14, 2025
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Where do you go when you feel ungrounded and lost to yourself? I can always find myself in music, in certain songs and records. Sting is part of a small cohort of artists, including Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Kate Bush, Bono, and Sinead O’Connor, whose voices I know intimately, as I’d been raised in a house with them. You can needle-drop me into their r…

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