Sting Ten Summoner's Tales

180g Vinyl LP Mastered By Abbey Road Studios!
Ten Summoner's Tales is the fourth solo studio album by English musician Sting. The title is a combined pun of his family name, Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the summoner. Released in 1993, it explores themes of love and morality in a noticeably upbeat mood compared to his previous release, the introspective The Soul Cages, released in 1991 after the loss of both his parents in the 1980s.
This album contains two US hits; "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" reached No.17 on the Billboard Hot 100 while "Fields of Gold" got to No.23.
Ten Summoner's Tales was shortlisted for the 1993 Mercury Prize. In 1994, it was nominated for six Grammy awards including Album of the Year (losing to Whitney Houston‘s The Bodyguard), winning Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("If I Ever Lose My Faith in You") and Best Long Form Music Video, while "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" was also nominated for Record and Song of the Year.
A LaserDisc and VHS of the album were released, containing live performances of all songs on the album at Lake House.
A promotional disc was made where Sting discusses some of the songs on the album. There was also an unofficial live album produced during the Ten Summoner's Tales era, entitled Meadowlands of Gold, which contained 13 tracks performed at the Meadowlands Arena on February 26, 1994, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The songs consisted of tracks from the album, and a few songs by The Police plus a cover of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life".
In February 2023, Ten Summoner's Tales a digital-exclusive 30th anniversary deluxe edition was released, which included the original track listing and 15 bonus tracks.
The set is packaged in an exact replica of the original artwork, on 180g heavyweight vinyl. The new vinyl master was cut at the legendary Abbey Road Studios to ensure exceptional audio quality.
"...his best solo record....more consistently satisfying than anything else in his catalog." - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic.com, ★★★★½

Features:

• 180g Vinyl
• Mastered at Abbey Road Studios
• Packaged in an exact replica of the original artwork
  

Selections:

Side A
1. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
2. Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)
3. Fields Of Gold
4. Heavy Cloud No Rain
5. She's Too Good For Me
6. Seven Days
Side B
1. Saint Augustine In Hell
2. It's Probably Me
3. Shape Of My Heart
4. Something The Boy Said
5. Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)