Difference between revisions of "Category:1990"

• around March - Stewart and Sting contribute to Godley & Creme's One World, One Voice project
• in spring - Stewart was in Argentina to play polo and buy a new polo pony
• around May - Sting is in Paris recording music for The Soul Cages (Studio Guillaume Tell)
• around May - Stewart / Animal Logic perform As Soon As The Sun Goes Down on the TV show "New Visions" with Nile Rodgers
• in June - Stewart is was back at his Buckinghamshire farmhouse - spending the summer there
• around June / July - Sting is in Italy (Pisa) to record the vocals for The Soul Cages with the Voyager Mobile Recording Unit - maybe this went on until early September (when apparently their baby was christened in Pisa)
• after some gigs in London (July 21-26) Branford Marsalis and Kenny Kirkland will fly to Italy to work with Sting
• around September - Sting will mix the record in West London, before leaving for America (probably to Malibu)

• early 1991 magazines suggest that Sting also did final LP mixes in Los Angeles and also produced a jazz singer there...

• mid-September - Stewart flew from London to the States to work on the Fort Worth production of Holy Blood and Crescent Moon - and composing / recording music for a Nissan spot - it seems he stayed there until December
• (all Outlandos newsletters - June and September 1990)

• Vinnie Colaiuta auditioned for Sting in London while the latter was mixing The Soul Cages - he got from Sting's management and then flew to London.

After having a lasagna Sting's manager gave a The Soul Cages DAT cassette to Vinnie to which he listened to for about forty-five minutes. Then they sat down to play some songs, the first being Every Breath You Take and then some other Police material. Then they played The Soul Cages songs. all in all about 90 minutes - just Sting, Dominic Miller, and Vinnie.

A day and a half later he was confirmed as Sting's new drummer. Vinnie went to England, the new band rehearsed for five days. About two days into rehearsal, Peter Gabriel showed up and they rehearsed for the upcoming Amnesty concerts in South America.

http://www.effingham.com/bishop/VinnieColaiutaInterview.htm

• The European (October 12-14, 1990) reports that Sting has just completed the narration for Peter And The Wolf.

• December 1990: Rolling Stone from Feb. 1991 features a Sting interview / report with these facts day 1: BMI Awards for 2 million plays of Every Breath You Take, day 2: interview at his Hampstead home (Anthony De Curtis), day 3: shooting Mad About You video in Moroccan outfit and with white horse

+ "I was in the jungle last week" + he managed that Raoni met Collor in a the jungle, but Sting had to spend the night in another village