The former Tower Records and Virgin Megastore store on Regent Street is now occupied by Dutch fashion retailer The Sting.

For example, there are Shubb Capos for Steel String Guitar which fits most acoustic and electric guitars ; the Shubb Capos for Nylon Sting Guitar are designed for guitar with wide flat fretboard, etc.

This has been done by Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XII, by Sting many times in WCW and TNA, and has gained major controversy over its role in the death of wrestler Owen Hart at Over the Edge.

The album got a new boost in 2006 when the second single was announced as " Always on Your Side ," re-recorded with British musician Sting and sent off to radio, where it was quickly embraced at Adult Top 40.

The line-up of Copeland, Sting, and Summers was an unusual trio at a time when progressive rock, symphonic rock, and other sound trends lent themselves to musical ensembles with support players.

During the group's 1983 Shea Stadium concert, Sting felt that performing at the venue was " Everest " and decided to pursue a solo career, according to the documentary Last Play at Shea.

On 2 October 1991 ( Sting's 40th birthday ), Summers joined Sting on stage at the Hollywood Bowl during The Soul Cages Tour to perform " Roxanne " and " Every Breath You Take ".

Sting with the group at Madison Square Garden, August 2007

The Sting was hugely successful at the 46th Academy Awards, being nominated for 10 Oscars and winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

( The final card, " The Sting ", introducing the film's dramatic conclusion, had no music at all.

The film version of Sting is 23 inches long ( 24 while in scabbard ) and 3 inches wide at the hilt.

According to Sting, who appeared in the documentary Last Play at Shea, he decided to leave The Police while onstage during the 18 August 1983 concert at Shea Stadium because he felt that playing that venue was " Everest ".

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.

In September 1985, Sting performed " If You Love Somebody Set Them Free " at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York.

", the latter earning Sting his second Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 36th Grammy Awards.

In September 1997, Sting performed " I'll Be Missing You " with Puff Daddy at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards in tribute of the late Notorious B. I. G ..

Sting with The Police at Madison Square Garden, New York, 1 August 2007

On 4 March 2010, Sting performed at the Meydan Racecourse launch in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with an estimated sell-out crowd of 16, 000.

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.

On 21 October 1991, Sting joined Don Henley and Billy Joel at New York's Madison Square Garden for a benefit rock show, The Concert for Walden Woods.

On 15 September 1997, Sting joined Sir Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Sir Elton John, Phil Collins and Mark Knopfler at London's Royal Albert Hall for Music For Montserrat, a benefit concert for the Caribbean island that had recently been devastated by an eruption from a volcano.

In February 2005, Sting performed at the Leeuwin Estate Concert Series in Western Australia, with the concert raising $ 4 million for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami relief efforts.

Sting at Madison Square Garden in New York City on 1 August 2007.

Kasparov and Sting, Times Square, New York.

is a turn-based tactical role playing game developed by Sting Entertainment and published by Square ( now Square Enix ).

* The Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York City ( opened for two Sting concerts, March 1997 )

By the late 1980s, complete Synclavier systems were selling for upwards of $ 200, 000, to famous musicians such as Sting, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, and to major studios the world over.

Rock music examples include Deuce, Davey Havok, Slash, Sting, Darby Crash, Marilyn Manson, Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten, Zakk Wylde, Nikki Sixx, Spider One, Count Grishnackh, Necrobutcher, Blasphemer, Nivek Ogre, Rob Zombie, Dimebag Darrell, Trey Azagthoth and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein as well as every member of Avenged Sevenfold ( M. Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance, Johnny Christ, and the late The Rev ).

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with 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.

" In late 1986 Sting visited Crisp in his apartment and was told over dinner – and the next three days – what life had been like for a homosexual man in the largely homophobic Great Britain of the 1920s to the 1960s.

During the season, the Sting traded veteran Dawn Staley to the Houston Comets and named Charlotte basketball icon Muggsy Bogues as their new head coach late in the season.

After Taylor was fired, Valentine was left without an angle, and eventually resigned in late 1992 when he was asked to lose to Sting.

This comes after his work in the late 90's on " The Ballad Album ", where he performed his own compositions along with Scorpions drummer Herman Rarebell, and greats like Dominic Miller ( of Sting fame ) and Simon Edwards ( Peter Gabriel, Talk Talk ).

In the late 1980s, American professional wrestler Steve Borden, under the stage name Sting, wore colorful striped face paint as part of his ring attire, in the National Wrestling Alliance and later, World Championship Wrestling.

Two late goals by the Californian side gave them first blood and a 2 – 1 win, but the Sting won game two by the same scoreline in front of 21, 760 at Comiskey Park.

Head Coach Willy Roy, who had led the Sting to two NASL titles, was replaced by his assistant Eric Geyer in late December, and Karl-Heinz Granitza, the clubs all-time leading goalscorer, who at the beginning of the season had seen his annual salary cut by $ 100, 000 to $ 65, 000, was suspended indefinitely on March 21 after an argument with owner Lee Stern.

" " Kristine W and the Sting ," her band in the late 80's and into the 90's, performed at the Silver Slipper Casino, at The Mint Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Hilton and Studio 54 at the MGM Grand.

Initially designated Naval and Air Staff Requirement ( NASR ) 7511, it was ( much later in the late 1970s ) designated the Sting Ray torpedo.

Morgan played summers on loan in the North American Soccer League in the late 1970s, playing for the Chicago Sting in 1977 and Minnesota Kicks the following three summers.

However, in late 1997, after Hogan lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Sting, friction popped up between Savage and Hogan again, this time over who the leader of the nWo was.

Brown was drafted late in the first round, 21st overall, in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft by the Boston Bruins following a successful career in the Ontario Hockey League as a defenceman with the Belleville Bulls and the Sarnia Sting.