Sting - 6 Night Sold Out Shows At London Palladium – still great doesn’t he just know it Editor Steve Hart 24/4/22 Pop Icon Sting - still shows he can pull in the crowd. After he sold out 6 shows at the London Palladium. Ex police singer opens his set with Russians, a 1985 single about the cold war which he reworked and reissued to raise funds for a Ukraine relief charity Sting told the crowd “I’ve hardly played it in years, because I thought it wasn’t relevant any more,” he sighs. “But, in light of recent events …” Accompanied only by a Ukrainian cellist, Yaroslava Trofymchuk, the black-pleather-clad 70-year-old singer sings the song’s chorus and earnest central message: “Russians love their children too.” He cautions us: “Don’t forget, a lot of brave Russians are protesting against this war.” It could be mawkish, but Sting carries it off through his evident sincerity and, primarily, its haunting melody, pulled in part from Prokofiev. Sting has always been a di...