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I Burn For You Sting The Police backing track 6/8 Duration 5:04 This tracks tempo is “tempo mapped ” to Stings Live performance. Arrangement similar to live recording.Fran Merante on drums. 2 Mixes included here. The original track is available to listen to and purchase at itunes or Amazon. Be the first to create and share with us a Youtube video of yourself on this track!
I Burn For You Sting The Police backing track. Born 2 October 1951, in Walls end, north-east England, Gordon Sumner’s life started to change the evening a fellow musician in the Phoenix Jazz men caught sight of his black and yellow striped sweater and decided to re-christen him Sting. Sting paid his early dues playing bass with local outfits The Newcastle Big Band, The Phoenix Jazz men, Earth rise and Last Exit, the latter of which featured his first efforts at song writing. Last Exit were big in the North East, but their jazz fusion was doomed to fail when punk rock exploded onto the music scene in 1976. Stewart Copeland, drummer with Curved Air, saw Last Exit on a visit to Newcastle and while the music did nothing for him he did recognize the potential and charisma of the bass player. The two hooked up shortly afterwards and within months, Sting had left his teaching job and moved to London.
Seeing punk as flag of convenience, Copeland and Sting – together with Corsican guitarist Henri Padovani – started rehearsing and looking for gigs. Ever the businessman, Copeland took the name The Police figuring it would be good publicity, and the three started gigging round landmark punk venues like The Roxy, Marquee, Vortex and Nashville in London.
I Burn For You Sting The Police backing track grooves hard.
