Wait two years! The Würzburg Sting concert is postponed by one year. Our author is saddened to buy the cards ages ago – and has a suggestion.
Dear Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, I am grateful that in your early youth you were not quite sure about the taste and were happy to wear such a strange yellow and black striped sweater. It was very reminiscent of a wasp, which is why they were simply called Sting by their bandmates. A really nice way I came to my nickname story.
Sting can be noticed just as easily as Police. Without your previous band, my youth would have been pretty unthinkable. Every breath you take ?? every breath was important. You don’t believe what such songs do with 16 year olds. When she started her solo career, we became two great friends again. Back then, in 1994, I was a volunteer. And as it should be, used for a few weeks in the culture department. At that time I was given a new spiked CD with the note: ?? Listen to it and write a few lines as you find it! ??
The volunteer as a critic
In my hand I held the musical journey through time ?? Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting (1984 ?? 1994) ??. It was incredible: a small volunteer should judge the big sting. Me as your critic – Manno man. Of course the meeting was a revelation: I literally bathed in “When we dance”, “If you love somebody” and “Englishman in New York” – and of course in “Fields of Gold”. My criticism at the time, I think I vaguely remember, was a fairly revolutionary contribution to cultural reporting, but unfortunately it has been lost at some point in the past 25 years.
Even if it quickly became clear that the cultural department and I would not have an intimate relationship, I still had the sting man in my life. Just like a CD, which I probably played as often as no other.
A remedy for tangled heads
And, quite honestly: Even if your music had only been half as good, you would still have been extremely likeable to me as a person. Anyone who was a bus driver and construction worker before his music career and has a milkman as a father must be a cool guy. And maybe guys like you and David Bowie, Elton John or Adele are the reason why I still believe in the British after all. In other words, without guys like you, the confused Boris Johnson of this world would be a lot more unbearable.
Sting not to like ?? is that possible? Especially since you have always been there. I would even say: a constant in my life. Incidentally, this is one of the few advantages of being in this beautiful world for a few days longer: Those who grow old together have a special connection. Something has grown there. Til today.
Which is why it was absolutely clear: a Sting concert on the Würzburg Residenzplatz is a must. Especially since the parking lot has proven itself as an open-air arena: Anyone who has experienced Rod Stewart or Peter Maffay here will definitely find it under? Unforgettable? have saved ?? and always want to go back when in doubt. And, please, if you can go musically in front of a genuine, magnificent UNESCO World Heritage Site!
From this point of view, it was high time that you, dear Sting, would now experience the magic of this place in front of the Würzburg landmark. Believe me: in the heart of Würzburg, the hearts of Würzburg are conquered in flight.
So far the plan. Then Corona came. Then the cancellation for your complete concert tour and thus for July 11th in Würzburg.
Two years waiting
I’m not quite through with the topic: not a concert this summer? Kind of hard to believe. No major events, nowhere. After all, there is now an alternative date: almost exactly a year later, on July 10, 2021. But that is still so terribly far away! Especially since the cards were bought last summer? so makes two years of waiting. How can you endure this? Just listening to a CD is not really a substitute.
But. Dear Sting: Now that 100 people are allowed to meet outdoors again in Bavaria, could we perhaps make an appointment spontaneously? Saturday in two weeks in the residential car park. As a car concert, too. How about that, dear Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner? Flasher for the Englishman! Deal?
And, promised: If I was allowed to, I would, in this case, even take over the cultural reporting.
Best Regards,
Frank Weichhan, editor
Someone gets mail: the “Saturday letter”
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