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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor.He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986.
On 25 September 1976, [12] while on tour with the British progressive rock band Curved Air in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England, the band's American drummer, Stewart Copeland, met and exchanged phone numbers with ambitious singer-bassist Gordon Sumner, a.k.a. Sting, [13] who at the time was playing in a jazz-rock fusion band called Last Exit. [14]
The music video for "Invisible Sun" features a collection of video clips taken from the conflict in Northern Ireland. Owing to its subject matter, it was banned by the BBC. [3] In 1998, Sting recorded a new version of "Invisible Sun" with the British reggae group Aswad. The song was revised as a duet between Sting and vocalist Tony "Gad ...
Rock singer Sting has said he isn’t concerned that the allegations surrounding disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs will impact his classic hit, “Every Breath You Take”.. The Bad Boy ...
Sting won the 1983 Grammy Award for Song of the Year, and the Police won Best Pop Performance by a Duo Or Group With Vocal for this song. Summers provides an account of the session in his memoir, One Train Later. [16] [12] As a member of the Police, Summers created a trademark guitar sound, which relied heavily on a chorus effect.
Sting returned to a 1985 song that he hoped would no longer be needed more than 30 years later. Shocking Band Exits Through the Years Read article “I’ve only rarely sung this song in the many ...
"Every Breath You Take" is a song by the English rock band the Police from their album Synchronicity (1983). Written by Sting, the single was the biggest US and Canadian hit of 1983, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for eight weeks (the band's only No. 1 hit on that chart), and the Canadian RPM chart for four weeks.
“Sting,” a slick creature feature about a teen (Alyla Browne) who befriends a rapidly-growing alien spider with a taste for humans, is the brainchild of writer-director Kiah Roache-Turner, who ...