THIS CAPTION WAS FUNNIER IN THE ORIGINAL GERMAN

Sting and Shaggy, whose collaborative set 44/876 (A&M/Interscope) just dropped, visit the beautiful old town of Cologne, Germany, where they performed an acoustic WDR2 radio show at the exquisite KULTURKIRCHE, took off at regional iTunes and Amazon stores and, of course, looked both ways in case those two scary rap dudes from the Echos were somewhere nearby. Sting and Shaggy kick off a joint European tour on 6/19, with North America slated for the fall. Seen hoping for more ohrwurm and less weltschmerz are (l-r) UMG Germany GM Milijana Gojic, WDR2’s Stephan Laack and Manuel Unger, UMG Germany’s Ulf Zick, Sting, WDR2’s Monika Schumer, UMG Germany’s Markus “Mulle” Ulrich and Sabrina Winter, manager/Cherrytree Music Company Chairman Martin Kierszenbaum, UMG Germany’s Jan Hora, guitarist Dominic Miller and Shaggy.