“focused on regulation and decriminalisation have worked”
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Sting
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known as Sting, is an English musician, songwriter and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for the rock band the Police. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.
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entertainment · English musician and songwriter (born 1951) · actor · singer-songwriter · bassist · guitarist · composer · lutenist · film actor · record producer · teacher · school teacher · also Sting, Sting (musician), Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, Gordon Sumner, G.M. Sumner
Born 2 October 1951 · Q483203
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2026· 15 entries
“so we wanted to start having him meet actors and hear them sing at the earliest possible point.”
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Published video “Sting - All This Time (Live at the Rijksmuseum/Audio)”.
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Published video “Sting - Fields Of Gold (Live at the Rijksmuseum/Audio)”.
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Published video “Sting - Message In A Bottle (Live at the Rijksmuseum/Audio)”.
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Published video “Sting - The Night The Pugilist Learned How To Dance (Live at the Rijksmuseum/Audio)”.
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Published video “Sting - What Say You Meg? (Live at the Rijksmuseum/Audio)”.
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Published video “Sting - Every Breath You Take (Live at the Rijksmuseum/Audio)”.
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Published video “Sting - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Live at the Rijksmuseum/Audio)”.
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Published video “Sting - The Last Ship (Live at the Rijksmuseum/Audio)”.
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Published video “Sting - Shape Of My Heart (Live at the Rijksmuseum/Audio)”.
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Published video “Sting - Roxanne (Live at the Rijksmuseum/Audio)”.
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Released album “The Night Watch (Live at the Rijksmuseum)”.
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The Guardian: The Last Ship review – Sting’s sincere but cloying musical stars the man himself – and Shaggy
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The Guardian: ‘A nasty little song, really rather evil’: how Every Breath You Take tore Sting and the Police apart
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2025· 2 entries
Fact Crescendo rated the claim “Sting Energy Drink causes impotence in humans and therefore should not be used.” Misleading.
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Released album “3.0 Live”.
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2024· 7 entries
Reported claimRated The claim came from an Italian website known for publishing Russian disinformation - according to the Italian land registry, the villa in Tuscany still belongs to Sting. · StopFake
StopFake rated the claim “Volodymyr Zelensky Bought Sting’s Italian Villa for €75 Million” The claim came from an Italian website known for publishing Russian disinformation - according to the Italian land registry, the villa in Tuscany still belongs to Sting..
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Zelensky bought a Tuscan winery from Sting” Counterfeit.
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WCNC rated the claim “Peeing on a jellyfish sting relieves the pain.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Rapper Diddy pays former Police frontman Sting $2,000 a day for sampling the song "Every Breath You Take" on Diddy's "I'll Be Missing You."” Unproven.
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The Guardian: Coldplay and Sting call for release of Toomaj Salehi, Iranian rapper sentenced to death
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The Guardian: Admit women or we quit, Sting and Stephen Fry tell Garrick
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Released album “All We Get Is Life”.
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Punk, Sting and ‘electrified zombies high on glue’: Stewart Copeland on how the Police formed
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Released album “Nothing Like the Rising Sun”.
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2022· 2 entries
Telugu Post rated the claim “Images of men dead due to caterpillar’s sting” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Joe Biden caught in sting by Dateline's Chris Hansen on To Catch A Predator” Video Mashup.
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2021· 4 entries
Released album “The Bridge”.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “The sting of a trapdoor spider could kill humans in five minutes.” False.
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Released album “Duets”.
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“in a year of global pandemic, personal loss, separation, disruption, lockdown and extraordinary social and political turmoil”
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2020· 2 entries
Sting was listed as number 32 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 50 greatest bassists of all time
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Released album “A Touch of Jazz”.
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2019· 3 entries
Released album “My Songs (Live)”.
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Released album “My Songs”.
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Received a BMI Award when "Every Breath You Take", a hit single by the Police, became the most-played song in radio history
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2018· 4 entries
Released ep “Running Down Again”.
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Released album “44/876: The Remixes”.
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Released album “44/876”.
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Scheduled a musical and story-telling performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art honouring Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole
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2017· 4 entries
Released album “Live at the Olympia Paris”.
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Awarded Polar Music Prize (2017).
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Released album “57th & 9th: Live From Chicago”.
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Released album “Live at the Bataclan”.
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2016· 4 entries
Released album “57th & 9th”.
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Released album “The Studio Collection”.
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Awarded German Radio Award (2016).
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Sting performed a 19-date joint concert summer tour of North America with Peter Gabriel
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “The Last Ship: Original Broadway Cast Recording”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “The Last Ship”.
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2012· 2 entries
Released ep “If I Ever Lose My Faith”.
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Released album “Fifteen Healing Bites”.
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2011· 5 entries
Time magazine named Sting one of the 100 most influential people in the world
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Sting joined more than 30 others in an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron for "immediate decriminalisation of drug possession" if a policy review showed it had failed
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“I was never called Gordon. You could shout”
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Released album “25 Years”.
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Released album “The Best of 25 Years”.
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “Live in Berlin”.
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Released album “Symphonicities”.
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And released an accompanying Symphonicities album the same year, which consisted of classical symphonic reinterpretations of his work
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2009· 4 entries
Released album “If on a Winter’s Night…”.
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Sting appeared at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert, playing "Higher Ground" and "Roxanne" with Stevie Wonder and "People Get Ready" with Jeff Beck
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Backed a supporters' campaign against the plan of owner Mike Ashley to sell off naming rights of the club's home stadium St James' Park
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Released album “Duetos”.
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Sting contributed to Songs for Tibet to support Tibet and the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
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Was reported to practise Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation technique
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2007· 5 entries
Released album “The Album Collection”.
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Sting joined Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland for the closing set at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey
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Was to have been included on Scherzinger's shelved album, Her Name is Nicole
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The band did reform temporarily for the purpose of undertaking a reunion tour
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Released album “The Journey and the Labyrinth”.
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Songs From the Labyrinth”.
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Tomelty "just happened to be Trudie's best friend (Sting and Tomelty lived next door to Styler in Bayswater, west London, for several years before the two of them became lovers)"
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Released ep “XM Artist Confidential (live From the Labyrinth)”.
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Sting was on the Gregg Kofi Brown album, with "Lullaby to an Anxious Child" produced and arranged by Lino Nicolosi and Pino Nicolosi of Nicolosi Productions
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “My Funny Valentine: At the Movies”.
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded MusiCares Person of the Year (2004).
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Was nominated for the third time for an Academy Award for Best Song, for "You Will Be My Ain True Love", from Cold Mountain, sung in duet with Alison Krauss
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “Sacred Love”.
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Released album “Songs of Love (Victoria’s Secret exclusive)”.
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Sting released Sacred Love, a studio album featuring collaborations with hip-hop artist Mary J
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The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “The Best Of”.
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2001· 5 entries
Released album “…All This Time”.
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Released album “Andrea Griminelli’s Cinema Italiano: A New Interpretation of Italian Film Music”.
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Released album “Still Be Love in the World”.
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Released album “Live at the BBC”.
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“Cloudy Skies, Chance of Parade”
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2000· 6 entries
Released album “Brand New Day: The Remixes”.
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Released album “Dolphins”.
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Along with four bandmates: Dominic Miller, Jason Rebello, Chris Botti and Russ Irwin
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The soundtrack for The Emperor's New Groove was released with complete songs from the previous version of the film
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Won Grammy Awards for Brand New Day and the song of the same name
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Released album “The Brand New Day Tour: Live From the Universal Amphitheatre”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Brand New Day”.
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Released album “Forever Gold”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Unplugged”.
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Released album “Digitally Remastered”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “The Very Best of… Sting & The Police”.
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Released album “At the Movies”.
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “Mercury Falling”.
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Released album “Best Ballads”.
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Released ep “Live at TFI Friday”.
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1995· 2 entries
Sting gave evidence in court against his former accountant (Keith Moore), who had misappropriated £6 million of his money
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Released album “The Living Sea: Soundtrack From the IMAX Film”.
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1994· 4 entries
Released album “Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994”.
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Released album “Summoner's Travels Collector's Edition”.
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Released ep “Five Live!”.
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And Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2002; a Golden Globe; an Emmy; and four Academy Award nominations
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1993· 6 entries
Released album “Demolition Man”.
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Released album “Ten Summoner’s Tales”.
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And for the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1994
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Released album “Complete Chicago Sessions”.
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Released album “Cochise”.
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And went triple platinum in just over a year
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “Happy Birthday Sting”.
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Released album “Midnight At Noon (An Acoustic Session)”.
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Released album “Last Session”.
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1991· 17 entries
Released album “1991-11-30: Wembley Arena, London, UK”.
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Released album “1991-10-02: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, USA”.
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Released album “The Soul Cages”.
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Released album “Chicago ’91”.
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Released album “Live USA, Vol. 2”.
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Released album “Un Abrazo a La Esperanza”.
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Released album “All Thease Time/Unplugged Rehearsal + Live”.
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Released album “Live at the Hollywood Bowl”.
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Released album “Acoustic Live in Newcastle”.
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Released album “The Soul Cages Concert”.
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Released album “We've Been Waiting ... All This Time”.
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Released album “Live USA”.
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Released album “Acoustic Tales Live”.
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“We are a parliamentary democracy; we don’t function by plebiscite. It’s dangerous. I don’t believe in referendums – Hitler and Mussolini organised referendums”
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Released album “They Dance Alone”.
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Released album “Live USA, Vol. 1”.
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Performed "Come Down in Time" for the tribute album Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin
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1989· 2 entries
Flew to the Altamira Gathering to offer support while promoting his charity
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Received three Grammy nominations including his second consecutive nomination for Album of the Year
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1988· 6 entries
Released album “The Soldier's Tale”.
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Released album “Live in Verona 1988”.
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Released ep “…Nada como el sol: Selecciones especiales en español y portugués”.
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Released album “Compact Hits”.
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The single "They Dance Alone (Cueca Sola)" chronicled the plight of the mothers, wives and daughters of the "disappeared", political opponents killed by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile
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Joined musicians including Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen for a six-week Human Rights Now
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1987· 4 entries
Released album “…Nothing Like the Sun”.
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Jazz arranger Gil Evans placed him in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs, and on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way he performed an arrangement of "Murder by Numbers", set to "Stolen Moments" by O
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Released ep “We'll Be Together”.
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Including singles, "We'll Be Together", "Fragile", "Englishman in New York" and "Be Still My Beating Heart", dedicated to his mother, who had recently died
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Bring On the Night”.
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1985· 3 entries
Released album “The Dream of the Blue Turtles”.
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And has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music
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Sting provided spoken vocals for the Miles Davis album You're Under Arrest, taking the role of a French-speaking police officer
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Song of the Year for Every Breath You Take (1984).
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Sting sang a re-worded version of "Every Breath You Take", titled "Every Bomb You Make" for episode 12 of the first series of the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image
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After Sting's affair with actress Trudie Styler
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Don't Stand So Close to Me (1982).
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Released a solo single, "Spread a Little Happiness" from the film of the Dennis Potter television play Brimstone and Treacle
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After the birth of his second child, Sting separated from Tomelty
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1980· 1 entry
Sting became a tax exile in Galway, Ireland
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1978· 1 entry
Sting collaborated with members of Hawkwind and Gong as the Radio Actors on the one-off single "Nuclear Waste"
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1969· 2 entries
Enrolled at the University of Warwick in Coventry, but left after a term
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Sting read the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake and later bought the film rights
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1951· 1 entry
Born 1951-10-02.
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