Friday, April 1, 2016

Wedding singer Sting witnesses that the Russians love their children too

http://www.theguardian.com/music/lostinshowbiz/2016/apr/01/wedding-singer-sting-russians-love-their-children-too

All in all, this is my favourite “off-diary” Sting gig since he took a million to perform for a family literally accused of boiling its enemies. That was back in 2010, when he got in a little metaphorical hot water himself for pitching up in Uzbekistan to collect a large cheque from the daughter of presidential tyrant Islam Karimov, whose horrors are deplored almost hourly by the UN, Amnesty and those generally against things such as the slaughter of innocents, the 80% draining of an entire sea, and boasting the world’s second-highest rate of human slavery.

Sting with Said Gutseriev at the billion-dollar wedding