The somber tune was also featured in a different key on the rockersmost recent album,57th & 9th.
Chair is one of the five Best Original Song nominees being performed throughout the evening.
Foleytells the story of journalist James Foley, who was killed by ISIS in 2014.
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Sting has said in interviews that seeing the film and then writing for it was extremely painful.
I said, I dont think I can,‘he toldDeadline.
Its too devastating, and Im not sure how a song could possibly end that thing.
I dont know what that song is, no idea.
I took the movie back home, showed it to my wife who was equally devastated by it.
What would you do, have an empty chair waiting for him?
