In addition to her own work, Crow has performed with The Rolling Stones and has sung duets with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Luciano Pavarotti, Willie Nelson, Kid Rock, Tony Bennet and Sting among others.

Paralleling these developments, in 1977 / 78, Sting and Summers recorded and performed ( alongside other invited musicians ) with German experimental composer Eberhard Schoener ; Copeland also joined for a time.

Sting performed in jazz bands on evenings, weekends, and during breaks from college and from teaching.

Prior to the Live Aid concert, in November 1984 Sting performed " Do They Know It's Christmas?

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.

Sting performed " Come Down in Time ", for the album which also features other popular artists and their renditions of John / Taupin Songs.

Together with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, Sting performed the chart-topping song " All for Love " for the film The Three Musketeers.

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 ..

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.

On 25 November 2011 Sting performed in an episode of CMT Crossroads with country legend Vince Gill.

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.

On 2 July 2005, Sting performed a complete set at the Live 8 concert, the follow-up to 1985's Live Aid concert.

On 22 January 2010, Sting performed " Driven to Tears " during the global telethon Hope for Haiti Now.

To keep physically fit, for years Sting ran five miles ( 8 km ) a day and performed aerobics.

* Nat Reeves jazz bassist who has performed with artist such as Sting

He performed a special arrangement of Sting's " Fragile " with Sting and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He has also performed duets with Angelique Kidjo, Sting, Dora The Explorer, Taj Mahal, The Chieftains, Sean Paul and others.

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.

Eleven months later Sam Moore performed " Soul Man " with Sting and Elvis Costello at one of Obama's inaugural parties.

** Sting ( songwriter ) for " Every Breath You Take " performed by The Police

** Hugh Padgham ( engineer ) for Ten Summoner's Tales performed by Sting

Because Sting was hosting the show that evening, he performed one of his solo songs instead of Veruca Salt performing a second song.

" All these artists performed the song with former Police vocalist Sting.

At the 2007 Grammy Awards, Copeland, Andy Summers and Sting performed the song " Roxanne " together again as The Police.

Singer-songwriter Sting has also played lute and archlute, in and out of his collaborations with Edin Karamazov, and Jan Akkerman released two albums of lute music in the 1970s while he was a guitarist in the Dutch rock band Focus.

In 1984, BBC Radio 4 broadcast two 90-minute plays based on Titus Groan and Gormenghast, adapted by Brian Sibley and starring Sting as Steerpike and Freddie Jones as the Artist ( narrator ).

Billboard magazine later confirmed the news, quoting Andy Summers ' 2006 statement as to how the band could have continued post-Synchronicity: " The more rational approach would have been, ' OK, Sting, go make a solo record, and let's get back together in two or three years.

The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 that involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters ( Paul Newman and Robert Redford ) to con a mob boss ( Robert Shaw ).

The term " sting " was popularized by the 1973 Robert Redford and Paul Newman movie The Sting, although the film is not about a police operation: it features two grifters and their attempts to con a mob boss out of a large sum of money.

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.

Sting owns several homes worldwide, including Elizabethan manor house Lake House and its 60 acre country estate near Salisbury, Wiltshire ; a country cottage in the Lake District ; a New York City apartment ; a beach house in Malibu ; a estate in Tuscany ; and two properties in London: an apartment on The Mall, and an 18th-century terrace house in Highgate.

Despite the low profile, he did record six albums as a leader between 1977 and 1984 ( including a 1984 trombone duo album with Al Grey ) and a few albums as a sideman, two with Count Basie, and on The Sting II soundtrack.

In 1984, BBC Radio 4 broadcast two 90-minute plays based on Titus Groan and Gormenghast, adapted by Brian Sibley and starring Sting as Steerpike and Freddie Jones as the Artist ( narrator ).

They also recorded two live albums from these tours, Double Live Assassins and The Sting respectively.

Round two ( Western Division finals ) was also hosted at Pepsi Center against the Arizona Sting.

The UK was one of the two main countries in the development of rock music, and has provided global acts including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen, Elton John, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, The Kinks, Yardbirds, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, The Animals, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Motörhead, Phil Collins, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, ELO, The Hollies, Sting, Annie Lennox, George Michael, Genesis, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Police, UB40, Ozzy Osbourne, The Smiths, Joy Division, Foreigner, Elvis Costello, Dusty Springfield, Status Quo, Cat Stevens, Judas Priest, Bonnie Tyler, Pet Shop Boys, Joe Cocker, T. Rex, Depeche Mode, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Roxy Music, The Jam, Rainbow, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Seal, Eurythmics, Free, King Crimson, Moody Blues, The Troggs, Steve Winwood, Robert Palmer, Cream, The Foundations, Herman's Hermits, Procol Harum, Yes, The Pretenders, Simple Minds, Marillion, Nazareth, The Sweet, Human League, Supertramp, Tears for Fears, New Order, Bad Company, Brian Johnson, The Stone Roses, Pulp, Suede, Manic Street Preachers, Travis, Oasis and Blur.

Though Copeland's songwriting contribution was reduced to a couple of songs per album as Sting started writing more material, he continued to co-arrange all The Police's songs with his two bandmates.

Colaiuta's studio work with Sting can be heard on Ten Summoner's Tales ( 1993 ), Mercury Falling ( 1996 ), three songs on Brand New Day ( 1999 ) and two songs on Sacred Love ( 2003 ).

Reed claimed to have turned down major roles in two hugely successful Hollywood movies: The Sting ( 1973 ) ( although he did appear in the sequel ) and Jaws ( 1975 ).

Over the years, there would be various incarnations of the group, with Flair and Arn Anderson as the two permanent members, while a number of different wrestlers, including Lex Luger, Barry Windham, Sting, Sid Vicious, Paul Roma, Brian Pillman, Chris Benoit, Jeff Jarrett, Steve McMichael, Curt Hennig, and Dean Malenko, have held the other two spots in the Horsemen.

The two continued feuding through the summer and eventually Flair reformed the Four Horsemen, with the surprise addition of longtime rival Sting, to combat Funk's J-Tex Corporation.

Flair then kicked Sting out of the Horsemen upon his challenge for the NWA Championship, resulting in a revived feud between the two which had to be delayed due to Sting injuring his knee, forcing WCW to slot Lex Luger as Flair's main challenger until Sting returned.

The choice of England for the first concert was also in acknowledgement of the English Secret Policeman's Ball shows that had pioneered the deployment of rock musicians for Amnesty's benefit, and the presence in the line-up of two prominent English musicians, Sting and Peter Gabriel.