Bilbao, Jun 1 (EFE).- Tonight in Bilbao, Sting has given the thousands of fans who have packed the Bilbao Arena a magnificent musical evening in which he has reviewed the songs of his life, including those that they brought him to stardom with the legendary The Police.
The British musician has arrived in the Biscayan capital as part of his “My Songs” world tour, which will also stop in the Tenerife town of Adeje on June 3; in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the following day, June 4; and at the Navarra Arena in Pamplona on December 16.
For more than an hour and a half, Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, Sting, has accompanied a dedicated audience on a musical journey through his long and successful career with the songs that led him to triumph first as the frontman of The Police, at the end of the 1990s. 70’s and early 80’s, and then solo.
From that first musical period in which he shared the stage with the guitarist Andy Summers and the drummer Stewart Copeland there have been no shortage of songs like “Roxane”, “So lonely” or “Every breath you take”, and among those of the second have been ” Englisman in New York”, “Fragile” and “If I ever lose my faith in you”.
His son Joe Sumner has been the guest artist who has preceded Sting on the stage of the Bilbao Arena and, in addition, has shared a performance with his father in the final stretch of the concert to interpret “King of pain” along with the one who was the voice of the remembered The Police.
A song by the British trio opened Sting’s concert on time, the classic “Message in a bottle”, enthusiastically received from the first chords by an audience that chanted the song, as they did with the following two, “ English man in New York” and “Every little things she does is magic”.
Then came another of Sting’s classics, “If you love somebody set them free”, after which the British took the opportunity to express his joy at performing in Bilbao and presenting the outstanding band that accompanies him on tour and that has made enjoy a surrendered pavilion.
After the presentations, the song “If you love somebody set them free” has arrived, with which Sting has begun the review of his solo stage that has led him to show some songs from his latest album “The Bridge”, such as the excellent “Rushing water”, and previous and better known songs.
Thus, there has been no shortage of “If I ever lose my faith in you”, “Fields of gold”, with which Sting has captivated the attendees who have used their mobiles to save the moment, or “Shape of my heart” and “Heavy cloud no rain”, perhaps two of the most outstanding tonight from his solo stage.
For the end, he returns to the time of The Police with “Walking on the Moon” and “So lonely”, where he has interspersed a fragment of Bob Marley’s “No woman no cry” and after a parenthesis with the Arabic ” Desert Rose”, another of the British trio’s hits, “King of pain”.
Then “Every breath you take” has unleashed madness on the dance floor and in the stands with the audience on their feet chanting the song and dancing to, in a tremendous and false ending, accompany Sting and his band who have withdrawn for a few minutes and has returned with the inevitable encores.
Back on stage, the first guitar chords have exalted the pavilion that has enjoyed, and recorded with mobile phones, the classic “Roxane”, and finally Sting has changed the bass for acoustic guitar to offer the delicate “Fragile” , with whom he has fired a concert to remember with applause.
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