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Released
  
8 March 1996

Length
  
48:08

Mercury Falling (1996)
  
Brand New Day (1999)

Release date
  
8 March 1996

Producers
  
Sting, Hugh Padgham

Recorded
  
1995

Label
  
A&M 540483

Artist
  
Sting

Genres
  
Rock music, Country music

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Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album

Similar
  
Sting albums, Rock music albums

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Mercury Falling is the fifth studio album by Sting, released in 1996. The album begins and ends with the words "mercury falling".

Contents

In 1997, the album earned Sting two Grammy nominations for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot".

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Background

There was one uplifting ballad, the second single, "You Still Touch Me".

The track "Twenty Five to Midnight" was excluded from the American and Canadian releases. It was included in the CD-Maxi Single of "You Still Touch Me", as the 4th track.

"Valparaiso" was used during the closing credits of the 1996 film White Squall.

Track listing

All songs written by Sting except where noted.

B-sides

  1. "Lullaby to an Anxious Child"
  2. "Giacomo's Blues"
  3. "Beneath a Desert Moon"
  4. "Moonlight"
  5. "This Was Never Meant to Be"
  6. "The Pirate's Bride"
  7. "The Bed's Too Big without You"

Personnel

  • Sting – vocals, bass
  • Dominic Miller – guitars
  • Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
  • Kenny Kirkland – keyboards
  • Branford Marsalis – saxophone
  • Andrew Love – saxophone
  • Gerry Richardson – Hammond organ on "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot"
  • Tony Walters – vocals
  • Lance Ellington – vocals
  • Shirley Lewis – vocals
  • East London Gospel Choir – vocals
  • Kathryn Tickell – Northumbrian pipes, fiddle
  • B. J. Cole – pedal steel
  • Wayne Jackson – trumpet
  • Songs

    1The Hounds of Winter5:27
    2I Hung My Head4:41
    3Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot6:43

    References

    Mercury Falling Wikipedia