{"id":816,"date":"1988-09-14T11:00:44","date_gmt":"1988-09-14T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2026-02-25T21:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:36:05","slug":"matr-bruce-springsteen-and-sting-cant-stand-losing-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1988\/09\/14\/matr-bruce-springsteen-and-sting-cant-stand-losing-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Stand Losing You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A one-time-only performance: Bruce and Sting perform the Police classic &#8220;Can&#8217;t Stand Losing You&#8221; on the eve of Sting&#8217;s 60th birthday, October 1, 2011.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/drRydmHvI0I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=683&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The original, of course, was by Sting&#8217;s former band, The Police. Released in 1978 as the follow-up single to the monumentally popular &#8220;Roxanne,&#8221; &#8220;Can&#8217;t Stop Losing You&#8221; stopped one spot shy of the top of the U.K. chart the following year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nH0vjLwMyc4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Can&#8217;t Stand Losing You<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>First Performed:\u00a0<\/strong>October 1, 2011 (New York City, NY)<br \/>\n<strong>Last Performed:\u00a0<\/strong>October 1, 2011 (New York City, NY)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 February 28, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one-time-only performance: Bruce and Sting perform the Police classic &#8220;Can&#8217;t Stand Losing You&#8221; on the eve of Sting&#8217;s 60th birthday, October 1, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3612,5],"tags":[399,240,398],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","category-great","category-meeting-across-the-river","tag-cant-stand-losing-you","tag-sting","tag-the-police"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/admin-ajax-39.jpg?fit=1180%2C1184&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-da","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16060,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/02\/cover-me-i-hung-my-head\/","url_meta":{"origin":816,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me: I Hung My Head","author":"Ken","date":"March 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Twice only: Bruce pays tribute to his good friend Sting with a rocking arrangement of Sting's 1996 Nebraska-ish \"I Hung My Head.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cover Me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cover Me","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/cover-me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hunghead.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hunghead.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hunghead.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hunghead.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hunghead.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8407,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1988\/04\/17\/matr-sting-and-bruce-springsteen-every-breath-you-take\/","url_meta":{"origin":816,"position":1},"title":"Every Breath You Take","author":"Ken","date":"April 17, 1988","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the nightly highlights of the Human Rights Now! 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