Finally, with the release of the motion picture The Sting in 1973, which had a Marvin Hamlisch soundtrack of Joplin tunes originally edited by Gunther Schuller, ragtime was brought to a wide audience.

The drummer Howlett had in mind, Chris Cutler, was unavailable to play, so Sting brought along Stewart Copeland.

Anyway, it was clear Sting had no real intention of writing any new songs for the Police.

She said that Shaw saved The Sting since no other actor would accept the part, that Paul Newman hand delivered the script to Shaw in London in order to ensure his participation, and that he had to be paid an extremely high salary.

# Inspired by Schuller's recording, the producer of the movie The Sting had Marvin Hamlisch score Joplin's music for the film, thereby bringing Joplin to a mass, popular public.

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

Sting had the magical ability to detect any nearby orcs.

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 mother, who had recently died.

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.

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.

1995 found Sting preparing for a court appearance against his former accountant who had misappropriated several million pounds of his money.

" 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.

Veruca Salt performed another single, " Shutterbug ", on Saturday Night Live ; however, instead of the featured musical group performing two songs as had been tradition, the musical performances were split between Sting and Veruca Salt.

Backstage, city official " The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson " reinforces the city's commitment to reason ( here meaning uniformity and unexceptionality ) by ordering the execution of a soldier ( Sting in a cameo ) who had just accomplished a near-superhuman feat of bravery, claiming that his bravery is demoralizing to other soldiers.

The Sting CD and DVD were taken directly from an experimental webcast that Lawless claims to have had no control over.

In the 2007 WNBA Draft, the Lynx traded center Tangela Smith, who they acquired in the dispersal draft from the Charlotte Sting, to the Phoenix Mercury for point guard Lindsey Harding, who had been selected first overall.

For one season ( 2003 ), the Sting had no brother team.

The Sting had posted an 18-16 record and tied with the Connecticut Sun for the # 2 seed.

The Sting had a better season in 2006 than 2005, posting an 11-23 record.

The Sting had a new arena and were clearly making progress in the rebuilding.

An investment group in Kansas City had an interest in moving the Sting to Kansas City.

In the 1970s, she had small roles in popular films such as The Sting, The Way We Were, A Star Is Born and Private Benjamin.

A partner-less Luger was teamed with Sting ( whose partner Ronnie Garvin had been kayfabe injured ) and the impromptu team won the entire tournament, defeating Blanchard and Anderson in the finals.

In January 1991, WCW officially began to recognize a WCW World champion, with Ric Flair, who had just defeated Sting to regain the NWA World championship, as the first title holder.

* Sting: The Secret Operations, an online first person shooter

Following the exposure given to " Kayleigh " and its subsequent chart success, the album went to No. 1 in the United Kingdom, knocking Bryan Ferry off the top spot and holding off a challenge from Sting, who released his first solo album in the same week.

Singer-bassist Sting ( Gordon Sumner ) and guitarist Henry Padovani began rehearsing with Copeland in January 1977, and they recorded the first Police single " Fall Out " the following month.

Also in 1983, Sting filmed his first big-budget movie role playing Feyd-Rautha in David Lynch's Dune.

In 2004, Henry Padovani released an album with the participation of Stewart Copeland and Sting on one track, reuniting the original Police lineup for the first time since 1977.

They advanced to their first ever WNBA Finals and swept the fourth-seeded Charlotte Sting from the Eastern Conference.

As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, three Brit Awards — winning Best British Male in 1994, a Golden Globe, an Emmy Award, and several Oscar nominations for Best Original Song.

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 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 the first half of 2011, Sting continued his Symphonicity Tour, touring South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South America and Europe.

Tony Hadley, of Spandau Ballet, was the first to record his vocal, while a section sung by Status Quo was deemed unusable, and replaced with section comprising Paul Weller, Sting, and Glenn Gregory.

The series also featured popular cross-over episodes featuring both Maverick brothers, including the famous " Shady Deal at Sunny Acres ", upon which the first half of the 1973 movie The Sting appears to be based, according to Roy Huggins ' Archive of American Television interview.

The Sparks took all three games to eliminate the Monarchs to earn their first berth in the WNBA Finals, in which they swept the Charlotte Sting, 2 – 0, for their first league championship.

* The first Pickle was a 10-gun topsail schooner purchased in 1800, originally named Sting, and renamed in 1802.

The first, the SWB Sting Signature Model, was released in 1999 and was made with woods certified by the Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood program.

** Los Angeles Sparks win 2 games to 0 over the Charlotte Sting, earning the franchise's first championship

The second generation ( C2 ) Corvette, referred to as the Sting Ray, was smaller than the first generation and was later called to as mid-years.

Introducing a new name, " Sting Ray ", the 1963 model was the first year for a Corvette coupe and it featured a distinctive tapering rear deck ( a feature that reappeared on the 1971 " Boattail " Buick Riviera ) with, for 1963 only, a split rear window.

The Sun swept the second-seeded Sting in the first round of the playoffs, and was slated to face Detroit in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Sting finished their first season with a 15-13 record and qualified for the first WNBA playoffs, but lost to eventual champions Houston Comets in the one-game semifinal.