Sting and Stevie Wonder - Fragile (live)
Here is Sting with Stevie Wonder - "Fragile" (From Sting's 60th birthday celebration, 10/1/11 at the Beacon Theater in NYC).
Sting and Stevie Wonder with Dominic Miller (gtr), David Sancious (kbs), Christian McBride (bass), Vinnie Colaiuta (dms) and Rhani Krija (perc).
"Fragile" is a song composed by English musician Sting from his 1987 album ...Nothing Like the Sun. Released as a single the following year, it placed to number 70 on the UK Singles Chart.
Sung additionally in both Spanish and Portuguese under the titles Fragilidad and Fragil, it appeared twice more on his 1988 EP variant of the album, Nada como el sol.
The song is a tribute to Ben Linder, an American civil engineer who was killed by the Contras in 1987 while working on a hydroelectric project in Nicaragua.
It was one of the songs that it appeared in the 1992 Academy Award winning documentary film "The Panama Deception", about the U.S. Invasion of Panama in December 1989.
"Fragile" was the opening song in Sting's ...All This Time concert, recorded on the evening of the September 11 attacks in 2001.
The song also appears in the closing scenes of "Come from the Shadows", episode 59, of 21 Jump Street, the fourth episode of Season Four.
The song also appears in the 1995 Oscar nominated documentary The Living Sea.
Covers
The song has been covered by many international artists including Québécois singer Bruno Pelletier, Turkish bağlama artist Ahmet Koç, American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, American trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, American soul singer Isaac Hayes, Mercedes Sosa and Pedro Aznar from Argentina, Nils Landgren, Shirley Clamp, Dionne Warwick, Julio Iglesias, Anita Lipincka, Jesse Cook, Stringmansassy and Holly Cole.
It was performed during the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
It has scored rendition on the instrumental music side as well, trumpeter Bruce Glover covered the song from his 2005 album "Fragile."
In 2006, saxophonist Michael Lington covered the song from his album "A Song for You."
The following year, guitarist Blake Aaron covered the song from his album "Desire."
Brazilian recording artist Marina Elali recorded a Brazilian version of the song for her self-titled debut album, also singing some parts in English.
A version is on this post, played by Sting with Stevie Wonder.
The lyrics:
If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star, like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are, how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star, like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are, how fragile we are
How fragile we are, how fragile we are
