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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.
The night before we went into the studio Stewart broke his collarbone falling off a horse and that meant we lost our last chance of recovering some rapport just by jamming together. Anyway, it was clear Sting had no real intention of writing any new songs for the Police. It was an empty exercise." [60]
Richard Cook of NME called Synchronicity "a record of real passion that is impossible to truly decipher", and felt that "although [the album] magnifies the difference between Sting and Summers and Copeland it also evolves the group into a unique state: a mega-band playing off glittering experimentation against the sounding board of a giant ...
Sting, whose real name is Gordon Sumner, is only the latest celebrity to use his platform to call for support of the Ukrainians. Actress Mila Kunis, who was born in Ukraine and spent her early ...
On 1 May 1976, Tomelty married musician Sting, the lead singer and bassist in the rock band the Police – after knowing him for two years. They met on the set of rock-musical Rock Nativity. [3] She played the Virgin Mary; he played in the band. They have two children together, Joe Sumner and Fuschia Sumner. [4] Tomelty and Sting divorced in ...
The song, simply titled “Russians,” was first released as a single from The Dream of the Blue Turtles, his first solo album after breaking away from his band, The Police.
The album was influenced by two events in Sting's life: first, the death in late 1986 of his mother, which contributed to the sombre tone of several songs; and second, his participation in the Conspiracy of Hope Tour on behalf of Amnesty International, which brought Sting to parts of Latin America that had been ravaged by civil wars, and introduced him to victims of government oppression.
Sting has admitted he had a “quiet weep” following the death of the Queen, as more celebrities paid tribute to her reign and legacy. The monarch was described as “an inspiration to the world ...