Sting - The Arena, Verona, Italy, 5th June, 1988
[a.k.a. 'They Dance Alone']



01 The Lazarus Heart / Too Much Information
02 We'll Be Together
03 Englishman In New York
04 Sister Moon
05 Rock Steady
06 Straight To My Heart
07 One World [Not Three]
08 If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free
09 Bring On The Night / When The World Is Running Down
10 They Dance Alone

01 Consider Me Gone
02 King Of Pain
03 Be Still My Beating Heart
04 Walking In Your Footsteps
05 Fragile
06 Little Wing
07 Russians
08 Fortress Around Your Heart
09 Don't Stand So Close To Me
10 Cario Me Bien
11 Every Breath You Take
12 Message In A Bottle


Sound: Very good soundboard.

Comments: There are at least 3 different versions of this concert available. The first one is the version that I previously had, which was a 1 cd incarnation, and consisted of only the 2nd half of the concert. Totally incomplete. Another version I came across contained the complete concert, but was put together in such a manner that it required 3 cds, with some meaningless bonus tracks at the end of disc 3 (i.e. Puff Daddy's 'I'll Be Missing You'.... That kind of garbage). The version that I settled on is a 2 cd bootleg that contains the entire Verona '88 performance, with none of the filler/junk. Just the complete show. That's what you see here. You'll note that the audio on disc one is kind of sketchy. You can hear the audio cutting out on one channel quite frequetly. I don't know what to attruibute it to, but the worst of it is toward the beginning of the disc. There is no way to repair this, as the problems occur on both channels.