Test-Bring On The Night-ALT

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"Bring On The Night"
"Bring On The Night (song)" by Sting first appeared on The Police album Reggatta de Blanc.
Song written by Sting
Written in: TIME PERIOD
Originally recorded by: The Police
Also recorded by: Sting

Andy Summers

TEST VERSION "Bring On The Night" is a song written by Sting.

About the song

Bring On The Night first appeared as a track on the 1979 Police album Reggatta de Blanc. A live recording appeared on Live! in YEAR.

The song was later recorded as a live performance by Sting in YEAR on ALBUM and as a collaboration of Andy Summers with classical guitarist Ben Verdery in YEAR on First You Build A Cloud.

Something about fan love for the song and its few appearances in the 2007-2008 Reunion Tour.

Recording History

Police Albums

Bring On The Night appears on the following album releases by The Police<ref>ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 21 April 2008. <http://www.thepolice.com/discog/?v=a&a=2&id=30></ref>, <ref>ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 21 April 2008. <http://www.thepolice.com/discog/?v=a&a=2&id=38></ref>, <ref>ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 21 April 2008. <http://www.thepolice.com/discog/?v=a&a=2&id=34></ref>, <ref>ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 21 April 2008. <http://www.thepolice.com/discog/?v=a&a=2&id=331></ref>:

Cover art Track title Album title Release date Release country
Police-album-reggattadeblanc.jpg "Bring On The Night" Reggatta de Blanc 1979-10-02 United Kingdom
Police-album-messageinaboxthecompleterecordings.jpg "Bring On The Night" Message In A Box: The Complete Recordings 1993-09-30 United Kingdom
Police-album-live!.jpg "Bring On The Night" The Police Live! 1995-06-13 United Kingdom
Police-album-thepolice.jpg "Bring On The Night" The Police 2007-06-11 United States

Sting Albums

Bring On The Night appears on the following album releases by Sting.

Cover art Track title Album title Release date Release country
45rpm.png "Bring On The Night"/"When The World Is Running Down..." Bring on the Night live album date country

Andy Summers Albums

Bring On The Night appears on the following album releases by Andy Summers.

Cover art Track title Album title Release date Release country
AndySummers-album-firstyoubuildacloud.jpg "Bring On The Night" First You Build A Cloud date country

?Video?

"Bring On The Night" appears on the following video and dvd releases:<ref>ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 21 April 2008.<http://www.thepolice.com/discog/?v=a&a=2&id=308></ref>, <ref>ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 21 April 2008.<http://www.thepolice.com/discog/?v=a&a=2&id=304></ref>, <ref>ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 21 April 2008.<http://www.thepolice.com/discog/?v=a&a=2&id=305></ref>

Cover art Video title Release date Release country
Police-aroundtheworld.jpg Around the World 1983-02-01 United Kingdom
Police-outlandostosynchronicities.jpg Outlandos to Synchronicities: A History of The Police Live! 1995-05-01 United Kingdom
Police-liveghostinthemachine.jpg Live Ghost In The Machine 2001-10-01 Japan

Lyrics

Lyrics are property and copyright of their owners, and provided here for educational purposes only. 

The afternoon has gently passed me by 
The evening spreads itself against the sky 
Waiting for tomorrow, just another day 
God bid yesterday good-bye 

Bring on the night 
I couldn't spend another hour of daylight 
Bring on the night 
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight 

The future is but a question mark 
Hangs above my head, there in the dark 
Can't see for the brightness is staring me blind 
God bid yesterday good-bye 

Bring on the night 
I couldn't spend another hour of daylight 
Bring on the night 
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight 

I couldn't spend another hour of daylight 
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight

<ref>ThePolice.com. UltraStar Entertainment LLC. 21 April 2008. <http://www.thepolice.com/discog/?v=so&a=2&id=106></ref>

Quotations and trivia

"This was another guitar riff I was deeply proud of but unable to find a home for. The dog was hopelessly resigned about his walk this time as well, so the song ended up as another one about longing. The second line was shamelessly lifted from T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'. What was it Eliot said? "Bad Poets borrow, good poets steal"?"

"'Bring On The Night' was originally called 'Carrion Prince'. I got the title from a Ted Hughes poem called 'King Of Carrion'. It was about Pontius Pilate and so was the song originally. Now it's about Gary Gilmore! I didn't realise it until I read 'The Executioner's Song' by Norman Mailer, the story of Gary Gilmore. 'Bring on the night / I couldn't stand another hour of daylight.' Gilmore's death wish. This very abstract thing I wrote fits this incredible true story. I sing it with him in mind and it's got to be the theme song if they ever make a movie of his life."

"I had read 'The Executioner's Song' by Norman Mailer, and I was struck by the darkness of that character, Gary Gilmore. The Adverts had done that song 'Gary Gilmore's Eyes' - I still perform it on stage and use it as a springboard for a piano solo. I was off and on as a personality at that time. The seven years of the Police really were the best years of my life and the worst. I was at the top of the tree, but at the same time my marriage (to the actress Frances Tomelty) was breaking up. Then I had to go through the bullshit business of fame, wondering whether it was real. The songs reflected this: there'd be the happy go lucky pop stuff and then occasionally something darker."

"'Bring On The Night', recorded by the Police in '78, was written almost three years earlier, or at least adapted from a song that was written at that time. I see no reason why songs shouldn't be rifled and developed to produce something new. If I can borrow from T.S. Eliot, I can certainly borrow from myself."

"When I use my fingers I play more with the flesh of the fingers than the nails. It's much more a rhythmic thing than classical guitar style. There is one number, 'Bring On The Night', which is all classical arpeggios up and down the fingerboard, through a flanger. When you're playing it at 2,000 watts through the PA it sounds great."

"I think that's a good record and that particular song is very good. It is flattering that other people take your music and reinterpret it. I don't complain about that. Even though they make different decisions from yours. That makes it good."


Alternative and cover versions

Cover art Track title Artist(s) Album title Release date Release country
Outlandosdamericas.jpg Traeme La Noche Gustavo Cerati and Andy Summers Outlandos d'Americas 1998 Europe


See also

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