Sting: Mercury Falling (A&M)
Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, May 1996
Sting cannot be escaped. He's on TV (a commercial for Rover cars) in a film (The Grotesque), on two movie soundtracks (Leaving Las Vegas and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls), on the new John McLaughlin album, and headlines the Finsbury Park Fleadh on June 8.
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