The Studio Collection

Tracklist

• 12" Vinyl 1: The Dream of the Blue Turtles
• 1
  If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
  3.8 ★
• 2
  Love Is the Seventh Wave
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Russians
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Children’s Crusade
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Shadows in the Rain
  3.8 ★
• 6
  We Work the Black Seam
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Consider Me Gone
  3.5 ★
• 8
  The Dream of the Blue Turtles
  3.8 ★
• 9
  Moon Over Bourbon Street
  3.6 ★
• 10
  Fortress Around Your Heart
  3.5 ★
• 12" Vinyl 2: … Nothing Like the Sun
• 1
  The Lazarus Heart
  4:34
  2.8 ★
• 2
  Be Still My Beating Heart
  5:32
  3.2 ★
• 3
  Englishman in New York
  4:25
  4.0 ★
• 4
  History Will Teach Us Nothing
  4:58
  2.2 ★
• 5
  They Dance Alone (Cueca solo)
  7:16
  2.8 ★
• 6
  Fragile
  3:54
  4.4 ★
• 12" Vinyl 3: … Nothing Like the Sun
• 1
  We’ll Be Together
  4:52
  2.8 ★
• 2
  Straight to My Heart
  3:54
  2.2 ★
• 3
  Rock Steady
  4:27
  1.8 ★
• 4
  Sister Moon
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Little Wing
  5:04
  3.0 ★
• 6
  The Secret Marriage
  2:03
  2.2 ★
• 12" Vinyl 4: The Soul Cages
• 1
  Island of Souls
  6:41
  1.5 ★
• 2
  All This Time
  4:54
  2.8 ★
• 3
  Mad About You
  3:53
  3.2 ★
• 4
  Jeremiah Blues (Part 1)
  4:54
  2.0 ★
• 5
  Why Should I Cry for You?
  4:46
  2.4 ★
• 6
  Saint Agnes and the Burning Train
  2:43
  2.4 ★
• 7
  The Wild Wild Sea
  6:41
  2.0 ★
• 8
  The Soul Cages
  5:52
  3.0 ★
• 9
  When the Angels Fall
  7:48
  2.0 ★
• 12" Vinyl 5: Ten Summoner’s Tales
• 1
  If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
  4:31
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)
  5:11
  2.5 ★
• 3
  Fields of Gold
  3:42
  3.6 ★
• 4
  Heavy Cloud No Rain
  3:47
  3.2 ★
• 5
  She’s Too Good for Me
  2:30
  2.5 ★
• 6
  Seven Days
  4:39
  2.5 ★
• 7
  Saint Augustine in Hell
  5:17
  2.5 ★
• 8
  It’s Probably Me
  5:09
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Shape of My Heart
  4:38
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Something the Boy Said
  5:28
  2.0 ★
• 11
  Epilogue (Nothing ’Bout Me)
  3:41
  2.5 ★
• 12" Vinyl 6: Mercury Falling
• 1
  The Hounds of Winter
  5:26
  3.4 ★
• 2
  I Hung My Head
  4:40
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
  6:43
  3.0 ★
• 4
  I Was Brought to My Senses
  5:50
  2.6 ★
• 5
  You Still Touch Me
  3:46
  2.6 ★
• 6
  I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying
  3:57
  2.4 ★
• 7
  All Four Seasons
  4:28
  2.4 ★
• 8
  Twenty Five to Midnight
  4:08
  3.0 ★
• 9
  La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
  5:16
  2.4 ★
• 10
  Valparaiso
  5:27
  2.4 ★
• 11
  Lithium Sunset
  2:37
  2.2 ★
• 12" Vinyl 7: Brand New Day
• 1
  A Thousand Years
  5:57
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Desert Rose
  4:45
  4.4 ★
• 3
  Big Lie Small World
  5:05
  2.5 ★
• 4
  After the Rain Has Fallen
  5:03
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Perfect Love... Gone Wrong
  5:25
  2.5 ★
• 12" Vinyl 8: Brand New Day
• 1
  Tomorrow We’ll See
  4:48
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Prelude to the End of the Game
  0:20
  1.5 ★
• 3
  Fill Her Up
  5:38
  2.5 ★
• 4
  Ghost Story
  5:29
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Brand New Day
  6:20
  2.6 ★
• 12" Vinyl 9: Sacred Love
• 1
  Inside
  4:46
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Send Your Love

  feat. Vicente Amigo
  4:38
  2.0 ★
• 3
  Whenever I Say Your Name

  Sting & Mary J. Blige
  5:27
  2.0 ★
• 4
  Dead Man’s Rope
  5:43
  2.0 ★
• 5
  Never Coming Home
  4:59
  2.5 ★
• 6
  Stolen Car (take Me Dancing)
  2.0 ★
• 12" Vinyl 10: Sacred Love
• 1
  Forget About the Future
  5:12
  2.0 ★
• 2
  This War
  5:30
  3.0 ★
• 3
  The Book of My Life

  feat. Anoushka Shankar
  6:15
  1.5 ★
• 4
  Sacred Love
  5:43
  1.0 ★
• 5
  Send Your Love

  feat. Vicente Amigo
  4:38
  2.0 ★
• 12" Vinyl 11: The Last Ship
• 1
  The Last Ship
  3:50
  2.0 ★
• 2
  Dead Man’s Boots
  3:29
  1.0 ★
• 3
  And Yet
  3:52
  1.0 ★
• 4
  August Winds
  3:17
  1.0 ★
• 5
  Language of Birds
  3:30
  1.0 ★
• 6
  Practical Arrangement
  3:19
  2.0 ★
• 7
  The Night the Pugilist Learned How to Dance
  4:13
  1.0 ★
• 8
  Ballad of the Great Eastern
  5:14
  1.0 ★
• 9
  What Have We Got?

  feat. Jimmy Nail
  3:34
  1.0 ★
• 10
  I Love Her but She Loves Someone Else
  3:41
  2.0 ★
• 11
  So to Speak

  feat. Becky Unthank
  4:06
  1.0 ★
• 12
  The Last Ship (reprise)
  3:19
  1.0 ★

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Release credits

• Ada Dyer
  background vocals [3]
• Al Stone
  assistant [1-4, 6-9]
• Althea Rodgers
  background vocals [2]
• Andrew Bradfield
  assistant [1, 3]
• Andrew Love
  saxophone [2-3, 5, 7-8]
• Andy Summers
  guitar [1-2]
• Anoushka Shankar
  guest [3], sitar [3]
• Aref Durvesh
  tabla [3]
• BJ Cole
  pedal steel guitar [7.2, 6.6, 6.11]
• BT
  additional [5]
• Becky Unthank
  vocal [11]
• Bob Carlisle
  French horn [1-2, 12]
• Bob Vogt
  assistant [2.1-6, 3.2-6]
• Branford Marsalis
  clarinet [2], saxophone [1.1-10, 6.3-4]
• Brian Scheuble
  assistant [1-4, 6-9]
• Bruce Keen
  assistant [1, 4, 6-9]
• Bruce Keene
  assistant [2-3]
• Bryan Loren
  producer [1]
• Cheb Mami
  guest [2]
• Chris Botti
  trumpet [9.3, 7.2]
• Chris Komer
  French horn [1-2, 12]
• Christian McBride
  double bass [3]
• Chœur de Radio France
  choir vocals [3]
• Clark Gayton
  trombone [3]
• Danny Quatrochi
  additional [1-10], synclavier [1-10]
• Darryl Jones
  bass guitar [1-10]
• Darryl Tookes
  background vocals [2]
• Dave Hartley
  Hammond organ [2], arranger [3]
• Dave O’Donnell
  assistant [3.2-6, 2.1-6]
• David Foxxe
  spoken vocals [7]
• Dennis Collins
  background vocals [2]
• Dolette McDonald
  background vocals [1-10]
• Dominic Miller
  guitar [7.2, 9.3, 6.1-11]
• Dominic Muldowney
  arranger [8-9]
• Don Blackman
  Hammond organ [2]
• Donal Hodgson
  task [9.1-6, 10.1-3, 10.5]
• Donna Gardier
  background vocals [3]
• East London Gospel Choir
  additional [3-4]
• Eddy Grant
  congas [7]
• Efren Herrera
  assistant [1-4, 6-9]
• Eric Clapton
  guitar [5]
• Ettamri Mustapha
  darbuka [2]
• Fareed Haque
  guitar [5]
• Frank Opolko
  trombone [2]
• Gavyn Wright
  strings [8.1, 7.3]
• Gerry Richardson
  Hammond organ [3], additional [3]
• Graeme Perkins
  background vocals [3-4]
• Hiram Bullock
  guitar [5]
• Hopps
  assistant [10.1-3, 10.5, 9.1-6]
• Hugh Padgham
  engineer [6.1-11, 5.1-11], mix [5.1-11, 2.1-6, 6.1-11, 4.1-4, 4.6-9, 3.2-6], producer [5.1-11, 6.1-11, 4.1-9], remixer [5]
• Jacqueline Thomas
  cello [3]
• James Taylor
  guitar [3], vocal [3]
• Janice Pendarvis
  background vocals [7.2, 1.1-10]
• Jason Rebello
  Rhodes piano [3], clavinet [2], piano [9.3, 7.2]
• Jeff Kievit
  trumpet [1-2, 12]
• Jeff Young
  Hammond organ [3]
• Jim Scott
  engineer [1-10], mix [1-3, 9]
• Jimmy Nail
  vocal [9]
• Joe Mendez
  background vocals [2]
• John Hegedes
  assistant [1]
• Joy Rose
  background vocals [3]
• Kathryn Tickell
  Northumbrian pipes [7.2, 6.10], fiddle [6.4, 7.2]
• Ken Blair
  assistant [3.2-6, 2.1-6]
• Ken Helman
  piano [6]
• Ken Williams
  background vocals [2]
• Kenny Kirkland
  keyboard [1.1-10, 6.1-11]
• Kenwood Dennard
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Kipper
  drum machine [2], keyboard [9.3, 7.2], producer [9.1-6, 8.5, 10.1-3, 10.5, 7.2], programming [3], vocal [3]
• Lance Ellington
  additional [3-4]
• Lévon Minassian
  duduk [3]
• Manu Katché
  drums (drum set) [9.3, 7.2]
• Marcus Rojas
  tuba [1-2, 12]
• Mark Egan
  bass guitar [5]
• Mark Knopfler
  guitar [5]
• Mark Mazzetti
  additional [5]
• Mark McKenna
  assistant [2.1-6, 3.2-6]
• Marlon Saunders
  background vocals [2]
• Mary J. Blige
  guest [3], lead vocals [3]
• Mike Davis
  tenor trombone [1-2, 12]
• Mino Cinelu
  percussion [2]
• Monica Reid‐Price
  additional [3-4]
• Neil Dorfsman
  mix [2.1-6, 3.2-6], producer [2.1-6, 3.2-6]
• Omar Hakim
  drums (drum set) [1-10]
• Paul McKenna
  mix [1]
• Pete Lewis
  assistant [1, 3]
• Pete Smith
  engineer [1-10], mix [1-3, 9], producer [1-10]
• Philip White
  chorus master [3]
• Richard Harris
  euphonium [1-2, 12]
• Rubén Blades
  spoken vocals [5]
• Shirley Lewis
  additional [3-4]
• Simon Osborne
  assistant [1-4, 6-9], co [8.5, 7.2], engineer [7.2, 8.5, 6.1-11], mix [10.1-3, 10.5, 9.1-6, 7.2, 8.5], recording [10.1-3, 10.5, 9.1-6]
• Simon Osbourne
  assistant [1, 3]
• Stevie Wonder
  harmonica [5]
• Sting
  arranger [6.8, 1.3, 3.1-4, 3.6, 2.1-6], bass [6.1-11, 9.3], clarinet [3], double bass [9], guitar [2.4, 2.6, 9.3, 1.1-10], keyboard [3], lead vocals [1.1-10, 2.3, 2.5-6, 8.5, 9.3, 5.1-11, 4.2-3], producer [5.1-11, 3.1-6, 9.1-6, 7.2, 6.1-11, 1.1-10, 8.5, 10.1-3, 10.5, 2.1-6, 4.1-9], vocal [10.1-3, 10.5, 6.1-11, 7.2, 9.1-2, 9.4-6]
• Sté Strausz
  spoken vocals [5]
• Tawatha Agee
  background vocals [2]
• The Gil Evans Orchestra
  additional [5], performing orchestra [5]
• The Wilson Family
  vocal [1, 8-9, 12]
• Tony Kadleck
  trumpet [1-2, 12]
• Tony Walters
  additional [3-4]
• Valérie Denys
  castanets [3]
• Vaneese Thomas
  background vocals [2]
• Vicente Amigo
  flamenco guitar [10.5, 9.2], guest [9.2, 10.5]
• Victor Calderone
  additional [10.5, 9.2]
• Vinnie Colaiuta
  drums (drum set) [7.2, 9.3, 6.1-11]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [2-3, 5, 7-8]
• Yves Jajaget
  assistant [1-4, 6-9]
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  The Studio Collection

  11x 12" Vinyl
  30 September 2016