Desert Rose, CD
The 'Brand New Day' album contained this classic track. 'Desert Rose' was a moderately successful UK single, but in the States it became a phenomenon, turning into one of the biggest sleepers for some time. A tie in with Jaguar who used the track in a TV commercial proved an excellent piece of marketing, with the song being continually exposed to mainstream TV audiences, who got 30 seconds of prime Sting when they least expected it. A spell of over 6 months on the US maxi-single chart accompanied by top ten achievements across Europe in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and the Czech Republic as well as in Israel. Several dance and club mixes of the song have been released some of them very good indeed. The song was, naturally, an ever present on the 'Brand New Day' world tour and achieved even greater exposure when Sting performed the song on the 2001 Superbowl Pre-Game show to an audience of millions. At it's strongest when Cheb Mami lent his vocals to live performances in major cities such as Los Angeles, New York and London, this one groundbreaking song was largely responsible for the breathtaking success of the 'Brand New Day' album.
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