Sting | Last Ship | CD

Sting is a British musician, singer, songwriter, composer, bassist, actor, author and activist. He was born in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, North East England, on 2 October 1951, and moved to London in 1977 to form a group with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers. That group released five studio albums, and Sting has also received an additional 11 Grammy Awards, two Brits, a Golden Globe and an Emmy.

The Last Ship is a 1 CD album by Sting, released by Cherrytree Records in 2013. It is Sting's eleventh solo studio album, with twelve tracks and guest appearances by Brian Johnson of AC/DC, Jimmy Nail, The Unthanks, The Wilson Family and Kathryn Tickell. Rob Mathes and Sting produced it, and Mathes also arranged and conducted the orchestral recordings, which include the single 'Practical Arrangement'. The album debuted at number 14 in the UK Albums Chart.

Track List

1. The Last Ship
2. Dead Man's Boots
3. And Yet
4. August Winds
5. Language of Birds
6. Practical Arrangement
7. The Night the Pugilist Learned How to Dance
8. Ballad of the Great Eastern
9. What Have We Got? (Feat. Jimmy Nail)
10. I Love Her But She Loves Someone Else
11. So to Speak (Feat. Becky Unthank)
12. The Last Ship (Reprise)