Sting and Paul Simon announce On Stage Together tour of Australia

STING and Paul Simon are heading to Australia on a double bill that will see the two music greats on stage together, sharing bands and singing each other’s songs.

STING and Paul Simon are heading to Australia on a double-bill that will see the two music greats on stage together, sharing bands and singing each other’s songs.

The old friends, who have known each other for decades and lived in the same New York apartment block for more than 20 years, will tour wineries and arenas around the country next February with their successful On Stage Together show.

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Sting, 62, and Simon, 72, earned rave reviews for the US leg of the tour this year, which was conceived as “an experiment” after the pair first played together at a New York charity event in 2013.

Musical journey ... old mates Sting and Paul Simon lived in the same New York apartment building for decades.

Both Simon and Sting are regular visitors to Australia.

For years, they shunned the bands that first made them famous but have more recently come to embrace the music they made with them, returning for reunion tours.

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