In a recent interview, the bassist said he was reluctant to sing the line about “banging on the bathroom floor” in Shaggy’s It Wasn’t Me because “I’m Sting, for God’s sake”. The Official Sting Fan Club. Sting & Shaggy review – pop-reggae odd couple are far from boombastic Roundhouse, London Touring their Grammy-winning album, Sting is in decent voice, but Shaggy adds little of … You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. As one might expect, the Sting and Shaggy experience is not without its toe-curling moments. Firstly, it added some much-needed levity to Police songs, which I’ve always found straitjacketed by earnestness. And Sting’s painfully sincere and frankly awful Desert Rose was far too Womad for the night’s Notting Hill Carnival vibe. Even Shaggy looked flaggy at this point. Sometimes, it pays to let your guard down. Shaggy on Sting friendship, ... ‘Mr Boombastic was done in 1995, to have these records still so prominent in peoples’ minds… A kid said to me, “Ah Mr Boombastic!” Mr. Their joint album 44/876 – a reference to the international dialling codes for their respective homes of the UK and Jamaica – won the Grammy for ‘Best Reggae Album’ and the Roundhouse was packed for the London stop of their UK tour. Latest single Gotta Get Back My Baby was a sumptuous slice of palm-fringed pop on which Sting’s keening voice and Shaggy’s earthy rapping combined brilliantly.What’s more, Shaggy’s demonstrable silliness – at one point he was wearing a judge’s wig sentencing Sting to life in prison – makes him a good wingman for an artist who, left to his own devices, has a habit of disappearing up his own posterior. The mixture of The Police’s Roxanne with Shaggy’s Boombastic paired a song about prostitution with a song about a “fantastic lova”. Fey was joined by Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Robert de Niro, Cynthia Erivo, Jimmy Fallon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Billy Joel, Jennifer Lopez, Eli Manning, Idina Menzel, Bette Midler, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julianne Moore, Ben Platt, Chris Rock, Sting, Barbra Streisand, among others.Performed by @MrJoeCaff with words by Sting, and music written and performed by Sting, this is Our Michael which @OfficialSting wrote  for Joe after his last appearance on CTC (Coronavirus Theatre Club). However, as light-hearted experiments go, music’s odd couple hit all the right notes. The mixture of The Police’s Roxanne with Shaggy’s Boombastic paired a song about prostitution with a song about a “fantastic lova”. The latter is featured on some versions of the Boombastic album as a bonus track. It also caused something of a career flourish; 44/876 was Sting’s first UK top 10 album for 16 years and Shaggy’s first for 18 years.This concert worked for three reasons.

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic became the sun-kissed anthem it has always threatened to be. It spent a week at number one on the U.S. (The show also lent a touch – just a touch, mind – of musical heft to Shaggy songs). What started as a one-off collaboration between Sting and the self-styled Mr Lover-Lover in a Los Angeles studio in 2017 became an album called 44/876, named after the telephone calling codes for Britain and Jamaica.The record went on to win the Grammy for best reggae album earlier this year (pity fellow nominees and reggae stalwarts Black Uhuru, who 35 albums into their career were pipped to the award by these arrivistes).

Shaggy - Boombastic (Sting / Shaggy remix) Lyrics. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Media caption Sting and Shaggy's favourite reggae records. Bit weird. How about collaborating with Shaggy, the mastermind behind hits such as Mr Boombastic and It Wasn’t Me? What bonds the men is Jamaica.

Ultimately, few will be clamouring for a second Sting and Shaggy album or tour.

Boombastic (Sting / Shaggy Remix) Remix – Sting International: 2: Boombastic (Stonebridge Vocal Mix) Remix – StoneBridge & Nick Nice: Other Versions (5 of 21) View All. And Sting’s painfully sincere and frankly awful Desert Rose was far too Womad for the night’s Notting Hill Carnival vibe. With every sinew of my being, I expected this concert by Sting and Shaggy – the po-faced English multi-millionaire bass player and the cartoon-like Jamaican dancehall star, respectively – to be as enjoyable as hangover at a lute recital. "Boombastic" is a song by Jamaican-American musical artist Shaggy from his third studio album, Boombastic. “The ghost of Bob Marley haunts me to this day,” sang Sting in his dodgy white patois.

Released in June 1995, the single achieved commercial success in many countries, including Ireland, UK, Sweden, New Zealand, and Australia, where it topped the singles charts. Read our community guidelines in full Lyrics to 'Boombastic' by Shaggy. Sting and Shaggy's album 44/876 is released on Friday. Sometimes, it pays to let your guard down. I was going to give this concert four stars because in the review world five stars are reserved for infinitely credible, genre-defining shows, but my ear-to-ear grin on the Tube journey home convinced me otherwise. They played up to their differences. Sting, 67, wore “serious” figure-hugging black while Shaggy, 50, sported the works: a white stetson, billowing white shirt, shades and chunky jewellery.But, my goodness, it was fun.