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Thread started 01/07/17 4:15am

Michael7

"50,000"

Hi, everyone. I read somewhere that Sting's song, "50,000", from his new album was written after Prince's passing. I wish that I could cite the source. Here is a bit of the chorus:

"50,000 voices rising every time he'd sing
And every word he ever wrote reflecting back to him"

I downloaded the song from iTunes a while back. Have you heard the song, and what are your reactions to it? Blessings.

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Reply #1 posted 01/07/17 5:37am

Noodled24

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Reply #2 posted 01/07/17 6:23am

brassneck

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I heard Sting on the Howard Stern show, and he elaborated on the song. He said it's about Prince, Bowie and a few others:

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"Mortality does sort of rear its head, particularly at my age – I'm 64," Sting told Rolling Stone. "It's really a comment on how shocked we all are when one of our cultural icons dies: Prince, David [Bowie], Glenn Frey, Lemmy. They are our gods, in a way. So when they die, we have to question our own immortality (sic)."

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https://www.howardstern.c...ew-single/

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Reply #3 posted 01/07/17 3:33pm

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There's a thread still active discussing it: http://prince.org/msg/8/435870

Use the search feature.

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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