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cover story
Sting says he knew it was the last
thing he wanted for himself.
Since the 1980's Sting has
"It was a dark, terrifying place
answered the call and cover
given his
story
with an awful health and safety
talents to help people in need and
record, with terrible chemicals.
a planet in crisis. He stepped in
People got diseases, and industrial
for victims of natural disasters like
accidents occurred. So, I did everythe 2004 tsunami and Hurricane
thing I could not to have that as
Sandy.
my destiny," he told The National's
He has called attention to man* Facebook: Dan
Susan Ormiston in an interview in
made calamities like deforestation,
posts almost daily
Toronto. The Last Ship premiered
and communicates
hunger, human rights atrocities...
in Chicago during the summer of
with an audience in
even the loss of our bees. And he
the millions
2014 before moving to Broadway
lent his talents to give financial
that September, closing after a little
and emotional support to victims
* News And Guts.
more than four months. It was subcom: like it sounds,
of terror, from the 2001 World
sequently staged in Salt Lake City
politics and world
Trade Center attack to the mass
affairs that matter
during the fall of 2016, in Finland
shooting at the Bataclan night
during the fall of 2017 and in the
club in Paris, where he first per* The Big Interview
and
Ireland during 2018. "I think it's a real story," Sting says. "It's about real issues.
AXS TV
- weekly
formed in 1979. In 2011, Sting was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most onU.K.
one-hour
It's notinterviews
a fairy tale or Disney property, you know? It's something that's relevant. I think
influential people in the world.
with
news makers
people
find a resonance in it. That's unusual in a musical. It's also telling the story of
the community I came from. There's probably more of me in it than I intended, but
* Film documentaNow
riesthat's
in the OK.
works.I'm enjoying the hell out of it."
Sting has taken on a completely new challenge, writing the music and lyrics for See Fail
State,
The
New York Times called it an "ambitious, earnest musical ... (that's) buoyed by
fraud in
The Last Ship, an original musical. The musical was inspired by Sting's own child- exposing
a seductive score that ranks among the best composed by a rock or pop figure for
for-profit
education
hood experiences and the shipbuilding industry.
Broadway."
As a boy, Sting reports that, as a boy, he woke every morning to the sounds
* Current best-sellof one of the biggest shipyards in the world situated just at the end of his street. ing book:
Practically everyone in town worked at the shipyard, but even from a young age What Unites

Activism

Where in the World is Dan Rather? Everywhere!

"

Us: Reflections
on Patriotism.
A must-read!

"There's probably more of me in it than I intended,
but that's OK. I'm enjoying the hell out of it."

country appeal to all ages.
Dan Rather's voice of reason and love of
with just one of his many
Pictured here at a California book signing
Gen-Xer fans, Ashley Mercier.
20 GRAND

SEPT-OCT 2019

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JANUARY FEBRUARY 2018

Jonathan Micocci is
president of GRAND
Media. He's a native of
Washington DC, but can be
found at home in Florida
when he's not visiting his
grandkids in California.


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