It was also apparently not enough for him that his subsequent solo music career encompassed jazz, opera and world music.

Restless as the bumblebee which inspired his nickname, the man born Gordon Sumner will be performing classical music in a concert next month at the Esplanade Concert Hall. Not just your average contemporary classical compositions, but 400-year-old Elizabethan pieces from Song From The Labyrinth, his 2006 album with Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov.

Read Eddino Abdul Hadi's full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.