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Some of the highlights included older songs like ``Fields of Gold,'' ``An Englishman in New York,'' ``If I Ever Lose My Faith in You,'' ``Every Breath You Take'' (unofficially known as the stalker song), ``Moon Over Bourbon Street'' (with a nice Louis Armstrong growl and driving trumpet) plus songs off his new album such as ``After the Rain Has Fallen'' and ``Fill Her Up.
If author-wit-gay hero Quentin Crisp had a mantra, it might have been a line from the song "An Englishman in new York," Sting's musical homage to Crisp: "Be yourself, no matter what they say.
Crisp--author (The Naked Civil Servant), artist's model, Sting's inspiration fo "An Englishman in New York," and actor (he was the luxuriantly bejeweled Elizabeth I in Sally Potter's Orlando)--deals the Horatian maxim Ut pictura poesis another blow: in Crisp's high-toned estimate, artists are every bit as illiterate as Americans generally.
 
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