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Classic DVD Review: Sting | Inside: The Songs of Sacred Love

The self-indulgent singer-bassist and his backing band let you into their rehearsals.

This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


It was impossible not to be moved by Sting’s last DVD for All This Time, which captured the singer-bassist and his musicians recording a live album in Italy in the hours after 9/11.

Inside follows the same behind-the-scenes format as All This Time, as the group rehearse the material for his latest disc Sacred Love. Thing is, without the urgency and emotion that gave the earlier disc its focus and humanity, this one just comes off like so much self-indulgent hot air. On the plus side, it does include swell versions of Police classics like Walking On The Moon, Roxanne and Every Breath You Take.