Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Listen: Sting’s Sizzling New Single with Gritty Vocal Recalls Bo Diddley OG Rock

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Sting! The youngest of all the classic rock stars turns 73 October 2nd and has never looked or sounded better.

Today he dropped a new single, “I Wrote Your Name (Upon My Heart)” that sizzles with a gritty vocal over a Bo Diddley OG rock and roll beat. In other words, it rocks like hell and had a great hook.

Sting sets out on his 3.0 tour across America at the end of September. He has three nights at Brooklyn’s Paramount Theater that are already sold out. On November 9th, he hits Las Vegas with Billy Joel.

Will a new album follow the single? I hope so. Sting is writing the final chapter in classic rock, and it’s a doozy.

Who killed classic rock? Not the butler. It was Top 40 and classic rock radio which refuse to play new music by the legacy stars who made them. They did it to the Stones this year, and Green Day, they do it to Bruce Springsteen. They bite the hands that fed them!

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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