Category:1999

• Sting recorded some demos for Brand New Day (then called "The Lovers") at the old A&M Studios in Los Angeles "at the start of this year" 1999 - Heat magazine; April 24, 1999 (mentioned in Outlandos newsletter June 1999)

• early March 1999 Sting donated blood in Florence and became a speaker for "Fratres" blood donators -- Dalla Stampa 2.3.1999 - http://www.rockol.it/news-11076/sting-invita-a-donare-il-sangue-toscana

• Lonn Friend wrote a book with a Sting 1999 chapter: https://books.google.de/books?id=YY3k_vlDd0MC&pg=PT77&lpg=PT77&dq=%22billy+francis%22+sting&source=bl&ots=naB_JbtYvo&sig=LKl9KsfO_r66oUXH00YsMJEKBHs&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJ16n9t8TMAhXJDMAKHcY0D3Y4ChDoAQg4MAM#v=onepage&q=%22billy%20francis%22%20sting&f=false

- he heard a Brand New Day mix on June 20, 1999 - a week later he heard the whole album presented by Miles (probably in LA) - sometime later: Paris - day 1 7pm dinner with Sting and record company people at the Eiffel Tower --- day 2 recording Windmills Of Your Mind in a Paris studio --- day 3 Lonn left a book for Sting at the front desk (hotel?), so Sting was staying in Paris

- Outlandos newsletter July 1999 mentions such a company record presentation in Paris for late June