Two musical icons are combining forces and performing together LIVE this summer for a special once in a lifetime tour…
The Sting & Peter Gabriel Concert Denver will take place on Tuesday, July 12th 2016, at the Pepsi Center!
Their tour named Rock, Paper Scissors will feature Sting and Peter Gabriel performing both separately and together, playing their own songs as well as melding their bands to explore each other’s most celebrated hits.
“I’m very happy that we’re taking the chance to experiment this way. I think people will be intrigued, I certainly am.” stated Sting about the upcoming Rock Paper Scissors tour. He also added “I had a successful tour with Paul Simon, who is someone else I admire greatly, and that worked so well I thought I’d like to do this again… who could I tour with? And then I thought of Peter because we’ve known each other for so long”. He also added “The interesting thing for me is what happens to our songs when they are juxtaposed with each other’s songs. What I do will change what he does and vice-versa. The songs we trade and the songs that we sing together will have an unexpected result, we hope”. Whilst Peter Gabriel adds “For me it’s partly what sounds good in that present incarnation balanced with what people want to hear. You want to try and get both sides and throw in something unfamiliar as well as the hits”.
Sting is an English musician, singer & song writer. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the band, The Police from 1977 to 1983, before launching a solo career. As a solo musician and a member of The Police, he has received 16 Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and three Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Police in 2003. In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording. In 2003, Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music, and was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at the White House in 2014.
Sting is known for hits such as “Desert Rose”, “Shape of My Heart”, “Fields of Gold”, “Englishman in New York”, “If You Love Someone Set Them Free”, “Roxanne”, “Message in a Bottle”, “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You”, “It’s Probably Me” and “Every Breathe You Take” to name a few.
Peter Gabriel is also an English musician, singer & song writer. He rose to fame as the original lead singer of the band Genesis. In 1975 he ventured into a solo career. He has received six Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, 13 MTV Video Music Awards, the Q magazine Lifetime Achievement, the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Polar Music Prize. In recognition of his many years of human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and TIME magazine named Gabriel one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Peter Gabriel is known for hits such as “The Book of Love”, “Don’t Give Up”, “Sledgehammer”, “Solsbury Hill”, “In Your Eyes”, “Digging in the Dirt” & “I Have the Touch” to name a few.
Tickets will go on sale on Monday, February 1st 2016 at 10am.
Purchase tickets at: bit.ly/1Kqi7nO
Sting & Peter Gabriel Concert Denver
Tuesday, July 12th 2016
8pm
Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Cir, Denver 80204