Sting
Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
Between a midnight skyful of stars and the sparkling carpet of Seattles city lights a small jetplane winks and twinkles. Within, knee to knee in the rather dowdy and over-intimate confinement of a four-seater at 28,000 feet, sit Sting, his co-manager Kim Turner, and Q.
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