''My Songs'' is the fourteenth studio album by British singer-songwriter

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and his second studio album to feature new renditions of previously released material (after 2010's '' Symphonicities''). The album was released on 24 May 2019.

Background

The album features fifteen reworked versions of a selection of Sting's most widely recognised songs from across his career. Via his social media outlets, Sting described the new versions of the songs as being "reconstructed", "refitted" and "reframed", but "with a contemporary focus". Some songs on the album have been remixed using elements of the original tracks, while others are complete re-recordings. A remixed version of "

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" produced for ''My Songs'' was released on 31 December 2018. This version was first performed live in Times Square on the same day. A remixed version of " Desert Rose" and a newly recorded version of " Demolition Man" were made available to download on 28 March 2019. The ''My Songs'' tour commenced on 28 May 2019 in Paris.

Track listing

Personnel

* Sting – vocals, bass (1, 2, 4-15),

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VG-8 guitar synthesizer (1, 2), electric guitar (3), acoustic guitar (11),

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

(14), saxophone (14) * Dominic Miller – guitars (1, 2, 4-7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15), vocals (15) * Rufus Miller – guitars (4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15), vocals (15) * Jerry Fuentes – guitars (7, 8), backing vocals (7, 15), bass (8), percussion (15) *

BJ Cole Brian John Cole is an English pedal steel guitarist, who has long been active as a session and solo musician. Coming to prominence in the early 1970s with the band Cochise, Cole has played in many styles, ranging from mainstream pop and rock to ...

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pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...

(1, 2) * Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar (14) * Darryl Jones – bass (3) * Kipper (Mark Eldridge) – keyboards (1, 2), drum programming (1, 2) * Dave Audé – additional programming (1, 2, 3, 11, 13, 14), additional instruments (1), arrangements (1, 3, 11, 13) * Jason Rebello – acoustic piano (1, 2),

clavinet The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tension ...

(1, 2) * Don Blackman –

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

(1, 2) * Dave Hartley – Hammond organ (1, 2) *

Kenny Kirkland Kenneth David Kirkland (September 28, 1955 – November 12, 1998) was an American pianist and keyboardist. Biography Early life Born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, Kirkland was six when he first sat down at a piano keyboard. After years ...

– keyboards (3, 11, 13) * Danny Quatrochi –

Synclavier The Synclavier is an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont. It was produced in various forms from the late 1970s into the early 1 ...

(3), backing vocals (3) * Jason Robinson – additional programming (3, 11) *

Martin Kierszenbaum Martin Kierszenbaum, also known by his pseudonym Cherry Cherry Boom Boom, is an American music personality. As a songwriter and producer he worked with Lady Gaga, Sting, Madonna, Mylène Farmer, Keane, Tokio Hotel, Far East Movement, Robyn, Fei ...

– acoustic piano (4), keyboards (4),

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(5, 6, 8, 10) * David Sancious – keyboards (7, 14) * Kevon "Webbo" Webster – keyboards (9) * Vinnie Colaiuta – drums (1, 2, 5, 7, 14) * Manu Katché – drums (1, 2, 11, 13) * Omar Hakim – drums (3) *

Josh Freese Joshua Ryan Freese (born December 25, 1972) is an American session drummer. He is the son of tuba soloist Stan Freese and the older brother of musician Jason Freese. He is a member of the Vandals (since 1989) and Devo (since 1996), having forme ...

– drums (4, 6, 8, 10, 12) *

Andy Newmark Andrew Newmark (born July 14, 1950)

– additional drums (11, 13) *

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– percussion (1, 2, 11, 13),

vocoder A vocoder (, a portmanteau of ''voice'' and ''encoder'') is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation. The vocoder was ...

(13) * Ettamri Mustapha –

darbouka The goblet drum (also chalice drum, tarabuka, tarabaki, darbuka, darabuka, derbake, debuka, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, toumperleki, tumbak, or zerbaghali; arz, دربوكة / ALA-LC romanization, Romanized: ) is a single-head membrano ...

(2) * Tony Lake – percussion (9) *

Stevie Wonder Stevland Hardaway Morris ( Judkins; May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, who is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include rhythm and blues, Pop musi ...

– harmonica (1) *

Larry Adler Lawrence Cecil Adler (February 10, 1914 – August 6, 2001) was an American harmonica player. Known for playing major works, he played compositions by George Gershwin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin. ...

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chromatic harmonica The chromatic harmonica is a type of harmonica that uses a button-activated sliding bar to redirect air from the hole in the mouthpiece to the selected reed-plate desired. When the button is not pressed, an altered diatonic major scale of the key ...

(14) *

Branford Marsalis Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed inst ...

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clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

(1, 2), percussion (3), saxophone (3, 11, 13) * Dave Heath –

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

(14) * Richard Edwards – trombone (14) * Mark Nightingale – trombone (14) * Chris Botti – trumpet (1, 2) * John Barclay – trumpet (14) *

Guy Barker Guy Jeffrey Barker, (born 26 December 1957) is an English jazz trumpeter and composer. Early life Barker was born in Chiswick, London, the son of an actress and a stuntman. He started playing the trumpet at the age of twelve, and within a year ...

– trumpet (14) *

Kathryn Tickell Kathryn Tickell, OBE, DL (born 8 June 1967) is an English musician, noted for playing the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle. Music career Early life Kathryn Tickell was born in Walsall, then in Staffordshire, to parents who originated from N ...

– Northumbrian pipes (1, 2, 14),

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

(1, 2, 14) * Farhat Bouallagui – string arrangements and conductor (2) * Moulay Ahmed – violin (2) * Kouider Berkan – violin (2) * Salem Bnoumi – violin (2) * Sameh Catalanm – violin (2) * Danny Dunlap – strings (14) * Sian Bell – cello (14) * James Boyd – viola (14) * Simon Fischer – violin (14) * Kathryn Greeley – violin (14) * Tawatha Agee – backing vocals (1, 2) * Dennis Collins – backing vocals (1, 2) * Joe Mendez – backing vocals (1, 2) *

Janice Pendarvis Janice Gadsden Pendarvis is an American singer, songwriter, and voiceover artist. She has worked with artists such as Sting, David Bowie, Steely Dan, Peter Tosh, Brandy, the O'Jays, Philip Glass, Jimmy Cliff, Laurie Anderson, the Naked Brothe ...

– backing vocals (1, 2, 3, 11, 13) * Althea Rodgers – backing vocals (1, 2) * Marlon Saunders – backing vocals (1, 2) * Vaneese Thomas – backing vocals (1, 2) * Darryl Tookes – backing vocals (1, 2) * Ken Williams – backing vocals (1, 2) *

Cheb Mami Mohamed Khelifati ( ar, محمد خليفاتي, ), better known by his stage name Cheb Mami ( ar, شاب مامي, link=no, , born 11 July 1966), is an Algerian musician and singer-songwriter. He sings and speaks in Algerian Arabic and sometim ...

– vocals (2) * Jane Alexander – backing vocals (3) * Stephanie Crewdson – backing vocals (3) * Elliot Jones – backing vocals (3) * Dolette McDonald – backing vocals (3, 11, 13) * Vic Garbarini – backing vocals (3) * Rosemary Purt – backing vocals (3) * Pete Smith – backing vocals (3) * Joe Sumner – backing vocals (3, 15) * Kate Sumner – backing vocals (3) * Mickey Sumner – backing vocals (3) * The Nannies Chorus – backing vocals (3) * Melissa Musique – backing vocals (9) * Gene Noble – backing vocals (9) * The Last Bandoleros erry Fuentes, Derek James, Diego Navaira and Emilo Navaira– backing vocals (10) *

Renée Geyer Renée Rebecca Geyer (born 11 September 1953) is an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B idioms. She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's Worl ...

– backing vocals (11, 13) *

Vesta Williams Mary Vesta Williams (December 1, 1957 – September 22, 2011) was an American singer-songwriter, who performed across genres such as pop, jazz, adult contemporary and R&B. Originally credited as Vesta Williams, she was simply known as Vesta begin ...

– backing vocals (11, 13) * Diego Navaira – backing vocals (15) * David Foxxe – narrator (14)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

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