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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 25 april 2019

Sting on Las Vegas residency, new album and Juice WRLD

By MESFIN FEKADU body Set Them Free.”
Associated Press “We weren’t treating the
NEW YORK (AP) — Sin City? original recordings as holy
More like Sting City. relics or museum pieces
Grammy-winning superstar ... we were just having fun
Sting is heading to Las Ve- with the songs,” said the
gas to launch a residency 67-year-old, adding that
next year. his voice is now “different
Sixteen performances of to what it was 30, 40 years
“Sting: My Songs” will take ago. It has more texture, a
place at The Colosseum at richness to it.”
Caesars Palace, beginning His song, “Shape of My
May 22, 2020. Shows are Heart,” will also appear on
also planned for June, Au- the new album. The tune
gust and September. has been sampled by a
“Visually, sound-wise, number of artists through-
dancing — it’s going to be out the years, from rapper
a Vegas show. I’m really Nas to Grammy-winning
committed to that,” Sting R&B singer Monica to Eng-
said in an interview with The lish singer Craig David, who
Associated Press. “I am a collaborated with Sting
little frightened and a little when he re-worked the
excited at the same time.” song in 2002.
Tickets for the general pub- The most famous version
lic, starting at $59, go on is Juice WRLD’s “Lucid
sale May 3. Dreams,” one of the big-
Sting said he’s been of- gest hits of the last year.
fered a residency in Ve- “I’m always intrigued by
gas in the past, but he felt that. I’m always pleased
it wasn’t the right time: “I This Jan. 28, 2018 file photo shows Sting performing at the 60th annual Grammy Awards in New by what I hear because
always thought, ‘I’m not York. they hear something in that
quite ready for that. I’m still Associated Press lovely, descending bass
a touring animal.’ (Now) Sting said he likes the idea be. I’ll be telling the story of album “44/876”); he has a line that makes for reflec-
I’m ready.” of performing at a single my life through songs. I’ve number of solo shows in the tion. That pleases me. And
Residencies in Vegas once venue every night, com- had a long, interesting life United States and around there have been some fab-
were meant for acts head- pared to traveling city-to- and I can’t wait.” the world; and he will re- ulous versions,” Sting said of
ing into retirement or in the city on a normal tour. Before he heads to Vegas, lease a new album, “My artists sampling “Shape of
final stretch of their careers, “Being in one place is ac- Sting has a string of projects Songs,” on May 24. My Heart.”
but that’s changed with tually a different, spiritual in the works: He will tour The album finds Sting re- “I was very impressed by
contemporary artists go- vibe,” the English performer the United Kingdom with shaping and re-imagining what he put on top of (my
ing to the city to perform, said. “Welcoming people Shaggy (they won the best some of his biggest hits, version),” he said of “Lucid
from Jennifer Lopez to Lady into your house — that’s reggae album Grammy this from “Every Breath You Dreams” specifically. “It’s a
Gaga. basically what it’s going to year for their collaborative Take” to “If You Love Some- really good song.”q

Erin Kelly’s new novel staggers at an asylum

By OLINE H. COGDILL Helen Greenlaw, the round- bills or child support. hospital and why she is try-
Associated Press ly hated chair of the local Marianne has spent de- ing to change the outdat-
“Stone Mothers: a Novel” health authority whose cades trying to escape her ed and cruel “lunacy laws”
(Minotaur), by Erin Kelly reputation for ruthlessness background. But now she’s that allowed her parents to
An imposing former mental rivaled that of Margaret back in Nusstead, helping put her in an asylum when
asylum reconfigured as a Thatcher. When they were to care for her mother who she was a rebellious teen-
high-end spa and apart- teenagers, Marianne and is suffering from dementia. ager. But neither Marianne
ment building looms over a her boyfriend, Jesse Brame, Consumed by jealousy at nor Jesse are interesting
remote England town and stumbled across forgot- how well Helen and Mari- enough to sustain their sto-
over the life of Marianne ten medical records in the anne have done, Jesse ries. That former hospital re-
Thackeray in this gothic-in- abandoned hospital prov- tries to bully his former girl- named Park Royal Manor is
spired thriller that languish- ing that Helen was once friend into blackmailing hardly threatening.
es in over-plotting. a patient there. They used Helen once again. If not, The dense plot of “Stone
At one time, Nazareth Men- these records to blackmail he will reveal Marianne’s Mothers” offers few sur-
tal Hospital was the main the rising politician. past as a blackmailer to her prises, dull-edged twists
employer in Nusstead, Eng- That was 30 years ago and husband and emotionally and uninspired characters.
land. Originally called the This cover image released the decades have been fragile daughter. “Stone Mothers” is so un-
East Anglia Pauper Lunatic by Minotaur shows “Stone good to Helen, who is now “Stone Mothers” alter- like Kelly’s 2017 outstanding
Asylum, the hospital was Mothers,” a novel by Erin Kelly. an MP — member of Par- nates in time as it explores outing, “He Said/She Said,”
built during the Victorian Associated Press liament — and Marianne, the past and present of a tense, gripping psycho-
era. Its closing during the many families — have nev- who is an architecture lec- the three characters. The logical thriller about a mar-
1980s plunged the town er recovered. turer and married to a lov- flashbacks of Helen are the riage and obsessions set
into an economic down- The person responsible for ing man. Jesse hasn’t fared most gripping as it reveals against the background of
turn from which it — and the hospital’s closing was as well, barely paying his why she shut the mental a solar eclipse.q