{"id":3165,"date":"2013-05-23T05:40:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T05:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/05\/23\/sting-extends-sonyatv-deal\/"},"modified":"2013-05-23T05:40:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T05:40:39","slug":"sting-extends-sonyatv-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/05\/23\/sting-extends-sonyatv-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sting extends Sony\/ATV deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/78\/Sting_2009_portrait.jpg\/220px-Sting_2009_portrait.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"121\" height=\"157\" \/><br \/>Sony\/ATV has extended an administration agreement with Sting dating backing more than a decade and a half.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The former Police frontman initially inked a deal with what was separately EMI Music Publishing back in 1997. Now that the relationship has been lengthened further in a new deal described as a &#8220;long-term&#8221; extension and announced by Sony\/ATV chairman and CEO Marty Bandier whose company headed a consortium takeover of EMI Publishing last year.<\/p>\n<p>The deal covers songs from Sting&#8217;s Police days such as Every Breath You Take, Walking On The Moon and Roxanne, solo career works including Fields Of Gold and If I Ever Lose My Faith In You and also the likes of the Oscar-nominated You Will Be My Ain True Love from the award-winning film Cold Mountain and Until from Kate &amp; Leopold.<\/p>\n<p>Bandier, who was running EMI Publishing when the original deal was struck in 1997, said: \u201cSting is one of the world\u2019s greatest living songwriters. He is an award-winning artist and his distinct musical style makes him beloved by a global audience. We are delighted to continue our relationship with Sting for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony\/ATV has extended an administration agreement with Sting dating backing more than a decade and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}