THE WAIT IS (ALMOST) OVER!

Ladies and gentlemen, save the date: February 8, 2010. Just in time for Valentine's Day, Sade will finally make her return with Soldier Of Love, the first album from the band that bears her name since 2000's Lovers Rock. It better be good. It's got to be good, right?

Lovers Rock was playing in the background during much of the Milan leg of my great 2000 romance with Paolo. (Unfortunately, the New York City leg, in the summer of 2000, preceded the album's release.) I already know that Soldier Of Love will be playing in the background for much of 2010. I wonder what will be happening in the foreground.