25 Years 3CD / 1DVD

A career retrospective assembled to mark twenty-five years of Sting's solo work, presented as three CDs and a DVD inside a hardcover book. The audio spans the whole solo catalogue, from the jazz-inflected band of The Dream Of The Blue Turtles through Nothing Like The Sun, The Soul Cages, Ten Summoner's Tales, Mercury Falling, Brand New Day and on into later, more exploratory records. "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free," "Fortress Around Your Heart," "Englishman In New York," "Fragile" and "Be Still My Beating Heart" appear alongside live performances and less obvious selections, all newly remastered at Masterdisk in New York. The DVD captures a full performance recorded live at Irving Plaza in New York in May 2005, during the Broken Music tour. The set is housed in a substantial hardcover book featuring intimate photographs, complete lyrics and a newly written introduction by Sting himself, making it as much a document of the writing as of the recordings.