Over 18,000 fans sang along with famous rock-star Sting at his concert, forming part of Broken Music Tour, held at the Luxol Grounds on Tuesday night.

In Malta’s biggest concert organised so far, Sting played many songs from his Police days and alternated between slow and catchy songs.

He opened the concert with the famous Message in a Bottle, and continued with Fields Of Gold, Roxanne and Englishman In New York.

SOS, A Day In The Life and Shape Of My Heart were other favourites with the crowd who received each interpretation with loud rounds of applause.

Desert Rose was his first encore, much to the delight of the audience, followed by Every Breath You Take. Once the song was over, the crowds called for another encore and Sting sang one of his latest hits, Fragile.

He rarely spoke throughout the performance but he did say il-lejl it-tajjeb (good night) and grazzi (thank you).

However, he thanked the audience before leaving the stage and said he hoped to visit Malta again.

Fiction Plane, led by Sting’s son Joe Sumner, entertained the audience with several of their songs before Sting came on stage.

Fiction Plane is an English pop-rock band with Joe Sumner on lead vocals and guitar, Seton Daunt on guitar, Dan Brown on bass guitar, keyboard, backing vocals, Pete Wilhoit on drums.

Although the gates opened at 6pm, people were still walking in a few minutes before Sting was scheduled to play.

However, there were a few complaints about the seemingly short performance by Sting, which lasted less than two hours.

Parking was a big problem in spite of the fact that many people had the foresight to park their cars in the area in the early afternoon.

Although there was the usual traffic jam before and after the concert, traffic flowed smoothly and the roads were soon clear.