The pop-singer and Dowland admirer has closed on a penthouse apartment in New York for $65.75 million.
It was the city’s biggest real-estate in July, local media report.
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I think pop singers should leave classical music alone. The result is , without exception, always worse than when classical musicians try their hand in popular music.
Debatable
Until you hear Placido Domingo duet with John Denver on “You Fill Up My Senses,” a perfectly nice little song when Denver sang it alone and utterly ghastly in the duet. Domingo’s voice is much too big for the tune, even though he is obviously holding back. Voices like that need some musical architecture to support them.
Generally speaking I am not a fan of “mixing and matching” but I think there is one real exception to this, Pavarotti singing with U2, Eno et al in a live performance of Miss Sarajevo, simply wonderful with Pavarotti in full voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWXQdw-YvVM
I agree with Ricardo: I don’t know which is worse.
While I hold Sting in very high regard, and while I respect his originality and musicality even when he sings Downland, I’d rather listen to Barbara Bonney’s rendition of “Come again”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EBnIiiELVQ
Over paid, overrated and over there.
I do hope he will stay there permanently
Funny he’s buying when all the rich sold – and started renting there instead – a decade ago!
Maybe he knows something they don’t!
65 million? Is that all?