Sting in
concert.
Background information
Birth name
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner
Born
October
2, 1951 (1951-10-02)
(age 55)
Origin
Wallsend, England
Genre(s)
Rock
Pop
New
Wave
Jazz
Classical
Occupation(s)
Musician
Songwriter
Producer
Actor
Instrument(s)
Vocals
Bass
Guitar
Guitar
Lute
Archlute
Pan
flute
keyboards
Saxophone
Mandolin
Synclavier
Harmonica
Turkish Clarinet
Tambourine
Oboe
Hurdy-Gurdy
Years active
1974 — Present
Label(s)
A&M
Records
Deutsche Grammophon
UMG
Associated
acts
The
Police
Website
Sting
Notable instrument(s)
Fender Precision Bass
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born 2 October 1951), universally
known by his stage name Sting, is
an English
musician
from Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to
starting his solo career, he was the principal composer, lead singer and bass player of
the rock band The Police.
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Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Early
life
- 1.2 Origin
of nickname
- 1.3 The
Police
- 1.4 Early
solo work
- 1.5 1980s
- 1.6 1990s
- 1.7 2000s
- 2 Acting
career
- 3 Activism
- 4 Personal
life
- 5 Sting
in other pop culture
- 6 Discography
- 6.1 Albums
- 6.2 Live
albums
- 6.3 Compilations
- 6.4 Soundtracks
and multi-artist albums
- 6.5 Foreign
language albums
- 6.6 Singles
- 7 Bibliography
- 8 See
also
- 9 References
- 10 External
links
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Biography
Early life
Sumner was born in Wallsend, near Newcastle
upon Tyne in northeast England,
to Audrey Cowell and her husband, Ernest Sumner. He is the eldest of
four children and has a brother, Philip, and two sisters, Angela and
Anita. His father managed a dairy, and as a boy he would often assist
him with the early morning milk delivery rounds. Sumner was raised in
the Roman
Catholic tradition, due to the influence of his paternal grandmother,
who was from an Irish
family.
He attended St. Cuthbert's Grammar
School in Newcastle upon Tyne, and then the University
of Warwick in Coventry,
which he left after only one term. During this time, he would often
sneak into nightclubs like the Club-A-Go-Go. Here, he would watch acts
such as Jack
Bruce and Jimi Hendrix who would later influence
his music. After jobs as a bus conductor, a construction labourer and a
tax officer, he attended Northern Counties Teachers' Training College,
which later became part of Northumbria University, from
1971 to 1974. He then worked as a teacher at St. Paul's First School in
Cramlington
for two years.
From an early age, Sumner knew that he wanted to be a musician. His
first music gigs
were wherever he could get a job, performing evenings, weekends, and
during vacations from college and teaching. He played with local jazz bands such as the
Phoenix Jazzmen, the Newcastle Big Band, and Last Exit.
Origin of nickname
Sting has stated that he gained his nickname while with the
Phoenix Jazzmen. He once performed wearing a black and yellow jersey
with hooped stripes that bandleader Gordon Solomon had noted made him
look like a bumblebee;
thus Sumner became "Sting." He uses Sting almost exclusively, except on
official documents. In a press conference filmed in the movie Bring
on the Night, he jokingly stated when referred to by a
journalist as Gordon, "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me
Sting, who is this Gordon character?"
The Police
-
In January 1977, Sting moved from Newcastle to London, and soon
thereafter he joined Stewart Copeland and Henry
Padovani (who was very soon replaced by Andy
Summers) to form the New Wave band The
Police. Between 1978 and 1983, they released five
chart-topping albums and won six Grammy Awards.
Although their initial sound was punk inspired, The Police
soon switched to reggae-tinged
rock and minimalist pop. Their last album, Synchronicity,
which included their most successful song, "Every
Breath You Take", was released in 1983. Another popular song of the
Police is "Don't Stand So Close to
Me" which made number 1.
While never formally breaking up, after Synchronicity,
the group agreed to concentrate on solo projects. As the years went by,
the band members, particularly Sting, increasingly dismissed the
possibility of reforming. In 2007, however, the band reformed and
announced a world tour.
Early solo work
In September 1981, Sting made his first live solo appearance,
performing on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty
International benefit The Secret Policeman's
Other Ball at the invitation of producer Martin
Lewis. He performed solo versions of "Roxanne"
and "Message in a Bottle",
playing the guitar.
He also led an all-star band (dubbed "The Secret Police") on
his own arrangement of Bob Dylan's, "I
Shall Be Released". The band and chorus included Eric
Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil
Collins, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure,
all of whom (except Beck) later worked together on Live Aid.
His performances were featured prominently in the album and
movie of the show and drew Sting major critical attention. Sumner's
participation in The Secret
Policeman's Other Ball was the beginning of his
growing involvement in raising money and consciousness for political
and social causes.
In 1982 he released a solo single, Spread a Little
Happiness from the a film version of the Dennis
Potter television play Brimstone
and Treacle. The song was a re-interpretation
of a song from the 1920s musical Mr.
Cinders by Vivian
Ellis, and was a surprise Top 20 hit in the UK.
1980s
Sting's first solo album, 1985's The Dream of the Blue
Turtles, featured a cast of accomplished jazz
musicians, including Kenny Kirkland, Darryl
Jones, Omar
Hakim, and Branford Marsalis. It included the
hit single "If You Love
Somebody Set Them Free". The single included a fan favorite non-LP
track titled "Another Day". The album also yielded the hits "Fortress Around Your
Heart", "Russians", and "Love is the Seventh Wave". Within a year, it
reached Triple Platinum. This album would help Sting
garner a Grammy nomination for Album of the
Year. The film and video "Bring On The Night" documented the formation
of the band and its first concert in France.
Also in 1985, he sang the introduction and chorus to "Money for Nothing", a
groundbreaking song by Dire Straits (because he
reused his melody from The Police hit "Don't Stand So Close to
Me for his vocal parts, he was given co-writer status and receives
royalties based around his somewhat minor performance. It is one of
only two shared songwriting credits on any Dire Straits album.) ". He
would perform this song with Dire Straits at the Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium. Sting also
provided a short guest vocal performance on the Miles
Davis album You're Under Arrest.
He also sang backing vocals in Arcadia's
single "The Promise" from their only
album, "So Red The Rose". He also
contributed a version of "Mack the Knife" to the Hal
Willner-produced tribute album Lost in
the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill.
Sting released ...Nothing Like the Sun
in 1987, including the hit songs "We'll Be Together", "Fragile",
"Englishman in New York", and "Be Still My Beating Heart", dedicated to
his recently-deceased mother. It eventually went Double Platinum. The
song "The Secret Marriage" from this album was adapted from a melody by
German composer Hans Eisler, and "Englishman In New
York" was about the eccentric writer Quentin
Crisp. The album's title is taken from William
Shakespeare's Sonnet #130.
Soon thereafter, in February 1988, he released Nada
Como el Sol, a selection of five songs from Sun
sung (by Sting himself) in Spanish and Portuguese.
Sting was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the
first in 1987 with noted jazz arranger Gil Evans who placed Sting in a big band
setting for a live album of Sting's songs (the CD was not released in
the U.S.), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 "Broadway
The Hard Way" album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of
"Murder By Numbers", set to the tune "Stolen Moments" by jazz composer Oliver
Nelson, and "dedicated" to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy
Swaggart.
October 1988 saw the release of Igor
Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale
with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Kent
Nagano. It featured Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Ian
McKellen and Sting in the role of the soldier.
1990s
Sting's 1991 album The
Soul Cages was dedicated to his recently
deceased father and included the Top 10 song "All this Time" and the
Grammy-winning "Soul Cages". The album eventually went Platinum. The
following year, he married Trudie Styler and was awarded an
honorary doctorate degree in music from Northumbria University. In
1993, he released the album Ten
Summoner's Tales, which went Triple Platinum in
just over a year. Ten Summoner's Tales was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1993
and nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of
the Year in 1994. The title is wordplay on his surname,
Sumner and Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The
Canterbury Tales The single, "Fields of Gold" had moderate success on
radio airways. Concurrent video albums were released to support "Soul
Cages" (a live concert) and "Ten Summoner's Tales" (recorded during the
recording sessions for the album).
In May 1993, Sting released a cover of his own classic Police
song from the Ghost in the Machine
album, "Demolition Man" for the Demolition
Man film.
Sting reached a pinnacle of success in 1994. Together with Bryan
Adams and Rod Stewart, they performed
the chart-topping song "All For Love" from the film The Three Musketeers.
The song stayed at the top of the U.S. charts for five weeks and went
Platinum; it is to date Sting's only song from his post-Police career
to top the U.S. charts. In February, he won two more Grammy Awards and
was nominated for three more. The Berklee College of Music
gave him his second honorary doctorate of music degree in May. In
November, he released a greatest hits compilation called Fields
of Gold: The Best of Sting, which eventually was certified
Double Platinum.
Sting's 1996 album, Mercury
Falling debuted strongly, but it dropped
quickly on the charts. Yet, he reached the Top 40 with two
singles the same year with "You Still Touch Me" (June) and "I'm So Happy I
Can't Stop Crying" (December). During this period, Sting was also
recording music for the upcoming Disney film Kingdom of the
Sun, which went on to be reworked into The Emperor's New Groove.
The film went through drastic overhauls and plot changes, many of which
were documented by Sting's wife, Trudie Styler. She captured the moment
he was called by Disney who then informed him that his songs would not
be used in the final film. The story was put into a final product: The
Sweatbox, which premiered at the Toronto
Film Festival. Disney currently holds the rights to the film and will
not grant its release. That same year Sting also released a
little-known CD-ROM called All This Time, which was
well ahead of its time in providing music, commentary and custom
computer features describing Sting and his music from his perspective.
Also in 1996, Sting provided some vocals for the Tina
Turner single On Silent Wings as a part of her Wildest
Dreams album, this peaked at #13 in the UK.
"Moonlight," a rare jazz performance by Sting for the 1995
remake of Sabrina, written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and John
Williams, was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Song Written
Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television.
2000s
The Emperor's New Groove soundtrack was
released, however, with complete songs from the previous version of the
film, which included Rascall Flatts and Shawn
Colvin. This is seen by many as a move on Disney's part to soothe the
relationship with Sting and to keep open the door for future projects.
The final single used to promote the film was "My Funny Friend and Me".
Sting's September 1999 album Brand
New Day included the Top 40 hits "Brand New
Day" and "Desert Rose" (Top 10). The
album went Triple Platinum by January 2001. In 2000, he won Grammy
Awards for Brand New Day and the song of the same
name. At the awards ceremony, he performed "Desert Rose" with his
collaborator on the album version, Cheb Mami. For his performance, the
Arab-American Institute Foundation gave him the Kahlil
Gibran Spirit of Humanity Award. However, Sting was criticised for
appearing in a Jaguar advertisement using "Desert
Rose" as its backing track, particularly as he was a notable environmentalist.
In February 2001, he won another Grammy. His song "After The
Rain Has Fallen" made it into the Top 40. His next project was to
record a live album at his Tuscan villa, which was to be released as a
CD and DVD, as well as being simulcast in its entirety on the internet.
The CD and DVD were to be entitled "On such a night" and should feature
re-workings of Sting favourites such as "Roxanne" and "If You Love
Somebody Set Them Free." The concert, however, was scheduled for September
11, 2001 and due to the terrorist attacks in
America that same day, the project was altered in various ways. The
webcast was shut down after one song (a reworked version of "Fragile"),
after which Sting let it be up to the audience whether or not to
continue with the show. Eventually they decided to go through with the
concert, and the resultant album and DVD was released in November under
a different title, "...All This Time". Both are dedicated "to all those
who lost their lives on that day."
He performed a special arrangement of "Fragile" with Yo-Yo Ma and
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
during the opening ceremonies of the 2002
Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
In 2002 Sting won a Golden Globe Award and in June,
he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
In the summer, Sting was awarded the honour of Commander of the Order of the British
Empire (CBE). In 2003 with, he released Sacred
Love, a studio album featuring collaborations
with hip-hop
artist Mary J. Blige and sitar maestro Anoushka
Shankar. He and Blige won a Grammy for their duet, "Whenever
I Say Your Name."
His autobiography Broken Music was
published in October. Sting embarked on a Sacred Love
tour in 2004 with performances by Annie
Lennox. Sting went on the Broken Music tour, touring smaller
venues, with a four piece band kicking off in Los Angeles on 28 March 2005 and ending this
"College Tour" on 14
May 2005. Continuing with his involvement in Live Aid, he
appeared at Live
8 in July 2005. During 2006, Sting collaborated with Roberto Livi in
producing a Spanish language version of his cult classic "Fragile"
entitled "Fragilidad" on the album "Rhythms Del Mondo" by Latino
recording legends "The Buena Vista Sound" (previously known as the
Buena Vista Social Club) available via www.apeuk.org
In October 2006, Sting released an album, to mixed reviews,
entitled Songs from the Labyrinth
featuring the music of John Dowland (an Elizabethan-era
composer) and accompaniment from Bosnian lute player Edin
Karamazov.
As a part of the promotion of this album, he appeared on the fifth
episode of Studio 60 during which
he performed a segment of Dowland's "Come
Again" as well as his own "Fields of Gold" in the arrangement
for voice and two archlutes. Reports surfaced in early 2007
that Sting would reunite with his former Police bandmates for a 30th
anniversary tour. These rumours were confirmed by posts on the popular
fanzine Stingus and on various other newswebsites
such as De
Standaard, Yahoo!
etc.
On February 11, 2007, Sting reunited with the other members of
the Police as the introductory act for the 2007 Grammy
Awards, singing "Roxanne", and subsequently announced The Police Reunion Tour, the
first concert of which was held in Vancouver on May 28 in front of
22,000 delighted fans at one of two nearly sold-out concerts. Opening
with "Message in a Bottle" Sting and his bandmates Stewart Copeland and
Andy Summers served up two hours of blockbuster hits much to the
excitement of all who attended. The Police will be on tour for
approximately a year, beginning with North America and eventually
crossing over to Europe.
Acting career
Sting occasionally has ventured into acting. Notable
film roles include:
- The Ace Face, the King of The Mods, a.k.a. The Bell Boy in
the movie adaptation of The Who album Quadrophenia
(1979)
- Martin Taylor, a drifter in Brimstone
and Treacle (1982)
- Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in the movie Dune
(1984)
- Mick, a black-marketeer in Plenty
(1985)
- Baron Frankenstein in The
Bride (1985)
- Himself in the documentary film Bring on the Night
(1985)
- A "heroic officer" in The Adventures of
Baron Munchausen (1988)
- Finney, a nightclub owner in Stormy
Monday (1988)
- Daniel, a British gentleman in Julia and Julia
(1988)
- Fledge in The
Grotesque (1995), in which he appears nude
- Himself on The Simpsons episode Radio Bart
(1992)
- J.D., Eddie's father and owner of a bar, in Lock, Stock,
and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
- Himself on the Vicar of Dibley Comic
Relief special (2007)
Sting narrated the American premiere of the musical Yanomamo
(1983), by Peter Rose and Anne
Conlon outlining problems that existed in the Amazon Rainforest. This
was made into a film and later broadcast as Song of the Forest
(currently available from WWF-UK). Other appearances on the stage and television
include guest spots on Saturday
Night Live and Ally
McBeal. He also provided the voice of Zarm on the 1990s
television show Captain Planet and
the Planeteers. In 1989 he starred as Macheath
(Mack the Knife) in the The Threepenny Opera, the
classic 1928 German musical work by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in
New York and Washington. He most recently appeared as a musical guest
on the fictional series Studio 60 on the
Sunset Strip.
Activism
While with the Police, Sting wrote "Driven to Tears," an angry
indictment of apathy in the face of world hunger, and it preceded his
work on Sir Bob Geldof's "Feed The World" project. Sting sang
on "Do They Know It's Christmas?" -- a hit single from Geldof's pop
music super-group called "Band Aid" which eventually led to the Live Aid
Concert in July of 1985, in which Sting also took part, performing with
Branford Marsalis, Phil Collins, and with the group Dire Straits.
Throughout the 1980s, Sting strongly supported environmentalism
and humanitarian
movements, such as Amnesty International. In 1986
he was interviewed by the BBC about the origins of his support for
Amnesty International and he stated: "I've been a member of Amnesty and
a support member for five years, due to an entertainment event called The
Secret Policeman's Ball and before that I did not know about
Amnesty, I did not know about its work, I did not know about torture in
the world."
Sting's first involvement in the human rights cause occurred
in September 1981 when he was invited by producer Martin
Lewis to participate in the fourth Amnesty International gala The Secret
Policeman's Other Ball following the example
set at the 1979 show by Pete Townshend.
Sting performed two of his Police compositions as a soloist - Roxanne
and Message In A Bottle - appearing on all four
nights of the show at the Theatre Royal in London. Sting also led an
impromptu super-group of other musicians (dubbed The Secret
Police) performing at the show including Eric
Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil
Collins, Donovan, Bob Geldof
and Midge
Ure in the show's grand finale - Sting's own reggae-tinged arrangement
of Bob
Dylan's I Shall Be Released. The event was the
first time that Sting had worked with Geldof, Collins and Ure - an
association that developed further with 1984's Band Aid
and 1985's Live Aid. Sting's performance - his
first live appearances as a solo performer - was prominently featured
on the album of the show (being its lead tracks) and in the film. In
1986, Sting was one of the headline performers on Amnesty's Conspiracy Of
Hope tour of the US.
The summit of his many contributions to the human-rights cause
came in 1988, when he joined a team of other major musicians -
including Peter Gabriel and Bruce
Springsteen - assembled under the banner of Amnesty International for
the six-week world tour Human Rights Now! Tour
celebrating the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
In 1988, he released the single "They Dance Alone" which
chronicled the plight of the mothers, wives and daughters of the
"disappeared", the innocent victims of the Pinochet
regime in Chile.
Unable to publicly voice their grievances to the government about their
missing loved ones, for fear that they would "go missing" too, the
women of Chile would pin photos of their "disappeared" relatives on
their clothing, and dance in silent outrage against the government in
public places.
With his wife Trudie Styler and Raoni Metuktire, a Kayapó Indian leader in Brazil, Sting
founded the Rainforest Foundation to help
save the rainforests.
His support for these causes continues to this day, and includes an
annual benefit concert held at New York's Carnegie Hall with Billy
Joel, Elton John, James Taylor and other music superstars. A species of
Colombian tree frog, Dendropsophus stingi,
was named after him in recognition of his "commitment and efforts to
save the rain forest" (Kaplan 1994).
In the early 1990s, Sting performed with Don Henley
and Billy
Joel in New York's Madison Square Garden at The Concert for Walden
Woods. He also took part in the post-9-11 rock telethon to raise money
for the families of the victims of terror attacks in the United States,
and performed at the Live 8 concert, the follow up to 1985's Live Aid
Concert.
Sting is known to support cannabis
reclassification in the United Kingdom. Following Tony
Blair's intention to revoke the rescheduling of cannabis executed in
January 2006, he has joined a list of prominent figures who have
written to the Prime Minister urging him to keep cannabis as a class C
drug.
Personal life
Sting married actress Frances Tomelty from Northern
Ireland, on 1
May 1976.
Before they divorced in 1984, the couple had two children: Joseph
(born 1976) and Fuchsia Catherine (born 1982). Joe is following in his
father's musical footsteps and is a member of the band Fiction
Plane.
In 1982, shortly after the birth of his second child, Sting
separated from Tomelty and began living with actress (and later film
producer) Trudie Styler. The couple eventually
married in 1992. Sting and Styler have four children: Bridget Michael
(a.k.a. "Mickey," born 1984), Jake (born 1985), Eliot Pauline
(nicknamed "Coco", born 1990), and Giacomo Luke (born 1995).
Both of Sting's parents died from cancer in 1987. He did not,
however, attend either funeral claiming that the media fuss would be
disrespectful to his parents.
Sumner owns several homes worldwide, including Elizabethan
manor house Lake House and its 60-acre country estate in Wiltshire, England, a
country cottage in the Lake District, a New
York City apartment, a beach house in Malibu,
California, a 600-acre estate in Tuscany, Italy, and two properties in
London: an apartment on the Mall and an 18th century terrace
house in Highgate.
According to an interview he did for German television broadcaster NDR in 1996, Sting chose a
tree on the Lake House estate beside which he wishes to be buried
someday.
To keep physically fit, for years Sting ran five miles a day,
and performed aerobics.
However, around 1990 he met Danny Paradise who introduced him to yoga. Soon after,
Sting began practicing yoga regularly. His practice consists primarily
of an Ashtanga Vinyasa series, though he has experimented with other
forms. He has practiced with notable teachers: K. Patthabi Jois, Sharon
Gannon, David Life, Maty Ezraty, James Brown, and Seane Corn. Although
Sting famously claimed to have had long bouts of tantric
sex with his wife, he has more recently said that it was a dinner-party
joke that took on a life of its own.
Sting in other pop culture
- Sting was the artist's inspiration for the physical
appearance of the character John Constantine in the Hellblazer
comic book series. This resemblance was not carried over to the 2005
film adaptation of the series, Constantine,
starring Keanu Reeves.
- Sting was a fan and frequent passenger of British
Airways' supersonic Concorde. He appeared in several
documentaries and publications as an unofficial spokesperson for the
high-speed service, during both its November 2001 relaunch (following a
crash and the subsequent grounding of the aircraft) as well as the
service's October 2003 retirement.
- 2005 Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo is named after Sting's son.
- Wrote the song "Lullaby To An Anxious Child" for his son
Giacomo. Released the song on the You Still Touch Me
CD
Maxi Single in 1996.
- Sting has recorded a version of his song A
Thousand Years with the fado singer Mariza
- An entire episode of the television sitcom Friends revolved
around Phoebe getting tickets to a Sting concert, going to the extent
of posing as Susan, Ross' son's lesbian mother, and ends up having a
restraining order placed against her.
- He is an avid Newcastle United supporter.
- Sting was spotted as a name in the address book of Clark
Devlin in the movie The Tuxedo.
Discography
Albums
- The Dream of the Blue
Turtles (1985) UK #3, USA #2 US: Sales 3 million
- ...Nothing Like the Sun
(1987) UK #1, USA #9 US: Sales 2 million
- The Soul Cages
(1991) UK #1, USA #2 US: Sales 1 million
- Ten Summoner's Tales
(1993) UK #2, USA #2 US: Sales 3 million
- Mercury Falling
(1996) UK #4, USA #5 US: Sales 1 million
- Brand New Day
(1999) UK #5, USA #9 US: Sales 3 million
- Sacred Love
(2003) UK #3, USA #3 US: Sales 1 million
- Songs from the Labyrinth
(2006) UK #24, USA #25
Live albums
- Bring On the Night
(1986) UK #16
- Acoustic Live in Newcastle
(1991) UK Release
- ...All This Time
(2001) UK #3 US #32
- The Journey and the
Labyrinth (2007) UK #1 US #1
Compilations
- Fields
of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994(1994) UK
#2 USA #16 Sales 2 million
- The Very Best of
Sting & The Police (1997) UK #1 USA #46
USA Sales 500,000
- At the Movies
(1999) Japan Release</gallery>
Soundtracks and multi-artist
albums
- The Secret
Policeman's Other Ball - The Music (1982) US #29
- Demolition Man
(1993)
- The
Living Sea: Soundtrack from the IMAX Film (1995)
- Sabrina:
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1995)
- Dolphins: Soundtrack From The IMAX
Theatre Film (2000)
Foreign language albums
Singles
| Year |
Title |
Chart positions |
Album |
| U.S. Hot 100 |
U.S. Modern Rock |
UK Singles Chart |
| 1982 |
"Spread a Little Happiness" |
- |
- |
#16 |
Brimstone and Treacle OST |
| 1985 |
"If You Love
Somebody Set Them Free" |
#3 |
- |
#26 |
The Dream of the Blue
Turtles |
| 1985 |
"Love Is the Seventh Wave" |
#17 |
- |
#41 |
The Dream of the Blue Turtles |
| 1985 |
"Fortress Around Your
Heart" |
#8 |
- |
#49 |
The Dream of the Blue Turtles |
| 1985 |
"Russians" |
#16 |
- |
#12 |
The Dream of the Blue Turtles |
| 1986 |
"Moon Over Bourbon Street" |
- |
- |
#44 |
The Dream of the Blue Turtles |
| 1987 |
"We'll Be Together" |
#7 |
- |
#41 |
...Nothing Like the Sun |
| 1988 |
"Englishman in New York" |
#84 |
- |
#51 |
...Nothing Like the Sun |
| 1988 |
"Be Still My Beating Heart" |
#15 |
- |
- |
...Nothing Like the Sun |
| 1988 |
"Fragile" |
- |
- |
#70 |
...Nothing Like the Sun |
| 1988 |
"They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)" |
- |
- |
#94 |
...Nothing Like the Sun |
| 1990 |
"Englishman In New York" (Ben Liebrand remix) |
- |
- |
#15 |
-' |
| 1991 |
"All This Time" |
#5 |
#1 (2 weeks) |
#22 |
The Soul Cages |
| 1991 |
"Mad About You" |
- |
- |
#56 |
The Soul Cages |
| 1991 |
"The Soul Cages" |
- |
#9 |
#57 |
The Soul Cages |
| 1992 |
"It's Probably Me" (with Eric Clapton) |
- |
- |
#30 |
Ten Summoner's Tales |
| 1993 |
"If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" |
#17 |
- |
#14 |
Ten Summoner's Tales |
| 1993 |
"Seven Days" |
- |
- |
#25 |
Ten Summoner's Tales |
| 1993 |
"Fields Of Gold" |
#23 |
- |
#16 |
Ten Summoner's Tales |
| 1993 |
"Shape Of My Heart" (Also known as "Professional", it
was the soundtrack of Léon) |
- |
- |
#57 |
Ten Summoner's Tales |
| 1993 |
"Demolition Man" |
- |
- |
#21 |
Demolition Man OST |
| 1994 |
"All For Love"(with Bryan Adams
and Rod Stewart) |
#1 |
- |
#2 |
The Three
Musketeers OST |
| 1994 |
"Nothing 'Bout Me" ("Epilogue") |
#57 |
- |
#32 |
Ten Summoner's Tales |
| 1994 |
"When We Dance" |
#38 |
- |
#9 |
Fields
of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 |
| 1995 |
"This Cowboy Song" |
- |
- |
#15 |
Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 |
| 1996 |
"Spirits in the Material World" (with Pato Banton) |
- |
- |
#36 |
Ace Ventura OST |
| 1996 |
"Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" |
#86 |
- |
#15 |
Mercury Falling |
| 1996 |
"You Still Touch Me" |
#60 |
- |
#27 |
Mercury Falling |
| 1996 |
"I Was Brought to My Senses" |
- |
- |
#31 |
Mercury Falling |
| 1996 |
"I'm So Happy I
Can't Stop Crying" (Ft Toby Keith)A |
#94 |
- |
#54 |
Mercury Falling |
| 1996 |
"On Silent Wings" (Tina
Turner Ft Sting) |
- |
- |
#13 |
Wildest Dreams
(Tina Turner album) |
| 1997 |
"Roxanne '97" (Puff Daddy Remix) (Ft Pras of The Fugees) |
#59 |
- |
#17 |
The Very Best of Sting & The Police |
| 1999 |
"Brand New Day" ("A Thousand Years") |
#100 |
- |
#13 |
Brand New Day |
| 2000 |
"Desert Rose" (Ft Cheb Mami) |
#17 |
- |
#15 |
Brand New Day |
| 2000 |
"After the Rain Has Fallen" |
- |
- |
#31 |
Brand New Day |
| 2003 |
"Rise & Fall" (Craig
David ft. Sting) |
- |
- |
#2 |
Slicker Than Your Average
(Craig David album) |
| 2003 |
"Send Your Love" |
- |
- |
#30 |
Sacred Love |
| 2003 |
"Whenever I Say Your Name" (with Mary
J. Blige) |
- |
- |
#60 |
Sacred Love |
| 2004 |
"Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)" (Ft Twista) |
- |
- |
#60 |
Sacred Love |
| 2005 |
"Taking the Inside Rail" |
- |
- |
- |
Racing Stripes soundtrack |
| 2006 |
"Always on Your Side" (with Sheryl
Crow) |
#33 |
- |
- |
Wildflower |
AAlso reached #2 on the Country
Tracks chart.
Bibliography
- 2003 Autobiography Broken Music, Simon
& Schuster, ISBN
0-7434-5081-7
- 2005 Biography Sting and I, James
Berryman, John Blake, ISBN
1-84454-107-X
- 1998 Biography Sting - Demolition Man,
Christopher Sandford, Little, Brown and Company, ISBN
0-316-64372-6
- M. Kaplan
(1994). "A new species of frog of the genus Hyla from the Cordillera
Oriental in northern Columbia with comments on the taxonomy of Hyla
minuta". Journal of Herpetology 28
(1): 79–87.
See also
- List of
number-one hits (United States)
- List
of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
- List
of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List
of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
- List of
bands/musicians from North East England
References
External links
Listening
| The Police |
| Sting | Andy
Summers | Stewart Copeland |
| Henry
Padovani |
| Discography |
| Studio albums:
Outlandos d'Amour
| Reggatta de Blanc
| Zenyattà Mondatta
| Ghost in the Machine
| Synchronicity |
| Compilations:
Every Breath You
Take: The Singles | Greatest Hits
| Message in
a Box: The Complete Recordings | Every Breath You
Take: The Classics | The Very Best of
Sting & The Police | The
Police |
| Live albums:
Live! |
| Tours |
| The Police Around
the World Tour | Zenyattà Mondatta Tour | Ghost in the Machine Tour
| Synchronicity Tour | A
Conspiracy of Hope Tour | The Police Reunion Tour |
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| Persondata |
| NAME |
Sting |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES |
Sumner, Gordon Matthew Thomas |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION |
Musician,
Songwriter,
Producer, Actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
2 October 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
Wallsend,
England
|
| DATE OF DEATH |
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| PLACE OF DEATH |
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