On the night, 10 years after the famous concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Zu&Co. will reach the United States, since many Zucchero’s friends will take part to this special event: Sting, Sam Moore, Chris Botti, Fher Olver from Manà, Dolores O’Riodan from Cranberries, plus some other Italian special guests: Jovanotti, Elisa, Fiorella Mannoia and many others still to be announced. Zucchero will be on stage with: Polo Jones (bass), Kat Dyson (guitars and chorus), Adriano Molinari (drums), Nicola Peruch (keyboards), Horacio Hernandez El Negro (drums), Joaquin Nunez Hidalgo (percussions), Elmer Ferrer (guitars), Monica Messinger (violin), the Harlem Gospel Choir & the Sam Moore’s horn section. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.com.

Sting is a prolific songwriter, author of a decades-long career first with the Police and then on his own, filled with pop-chart toppers, platinum records and music industry trophies to show for it. Then came the drought. Sting explained at the TED Conference in Vancouver how he fought his way back to his art after a prolonged period of creative darkness, when the songs stopped coming. Hint: it took him back to his hometown, and ends where the neon lights are bright. Gordon Sumner grew up in the shadow of a shipyard in Newcastle, England. Every morning he watched thousands of men dragging themselves down the hill to work, and back up again at the end of the day...