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.

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.

After the Synchronicity tour ended in March 1984, the band went on hiatus while Sting recorded and toured in support of his successful solo debut LP, the jazz-influenced The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in June 1985, Copeland recorded and filmed The Rhythmatist ( 1985 ) and Summers recorded another album with Robert Fripp ( Bewitched, 1984 ) and the theme song for the film 2010.

In the autumn of 2003, Sting released his autobiography, Broken Music.

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.

Soon thereafter, in February 1988, he released Nada como el sol, a selection of five songs from Sun sung ( by Sting himself ) in Spanish and Portuguese.

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 November, he released a greatest hits compilation called Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting, which eventually was certified Double Platinum.

That same year Sting also released a little-known CD-ROM called All This Time, which provided music, commentary and custom computer features describing Sting and his music from his perspective.

In May 2007, Deutsche Grammophon released the opera Welcome to the Voice ( composer Steve Nieve ), with Sting portraying Dyonisos.

According to an article posted on his official website, Sting entered the studio in early February 2009 to begin work on a new album If on a Winter's Night ..., released on October 2009.

After graduating from ASU, Levens signed a free agent contract with the Charlotte Sting of the Women's National Basketball Association, but she was released before the regular season began.

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

The following year, she released Without Walls, a collection of duets with a number of country, pop and rock and roll performers, including Wynonna Judd, Elton John, Lyle Lovett, Aaron Neville, Smokey Robinson, Sting and a number of others.

There was some speculation that the team might get a new name, but a newly released mascot following the same Sting theme made that idea unlikely.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

In an August 2009 interview with Swedish newspaper Expressen Joakim Åhlund states that the new album will be released during the fall and that it will feature a song with Swingfly and Coco Sumner, the daughter of Sting.

The next year he released the English-language collaboration Nothing But the Truth with rock artists Sting, Elvis Costello, and Lou Reed the same year as the more traditionally salsa Antecedente, another Grammy Award winner.

Untransmitted until 1987, the play was made into a film ( released in 1982 ) co-starring Sting.

A film version directed by Richard Loncraine and starring Denholm Elliott ( Bates ), Joan Plowright ( Mrs. Bates ), Suzanna Hamilton ( Pattie ) and Sting ( Martin ) was released in 1982 and is also available on DVD.

Sting released an EP featuring this song and other live tracks, entitled Demolition Man.

David's debut album, Born to Do It, was released on 14 August 2000, after which he has since released five further studio albums and worked with a variety of artists such as Tinchy Stryder, Kano, Jay Sean, Rita Ora and Sting.

Sting named his 2009 album If On a Winter's Night ... after the book.

At the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards in September, Sting won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program, for his A & E special, Sting in Tuscany ... All This Time.

Sting opened his ... Nothing Like the Sun world tour at the stadium on November 20, 1987.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, " The plot ... is not as complex as a movie like The Sting, and we can see some of the surprises as soon as they appear on the horizon.

Many " regulars " returned, but many new artists also appeared on stage: Sting, Bob Dylan, Fats Domino, Deep Purple, Al Jarreau, Chaka Khan, Johnny Cash, Cheap Trick, Cheb Mami, Youssou N ' Dour, Marianne Faithfull, Ice-T, Jazzmatazz, ZZ Top, Simply Red, Eric Clapton, Marisa Monte, George Benson, Jazzkantine, Alanis Morissette, David Bowie, Paul Simon ...

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* " They Dance Alone ( Cueca Solo )" appeared on the album ... Nothing Like the Sun by Sting.

Sting exclaimed, " All I have to say is, our partner is going to " shock " the world, because he is none other than ...

Kirkland appears on Sting albums The Dream of the Blue Turtles, Bring On the Night ( and in Michael Apted ’ s 1985 documentary film by the same name ), ... Nothing Like the Sun, The Soul Cages and Mercury Falling.

Kirk Hammett of Metallica covered the song on live performances, Skid Row ( not the original group of that name ) released a live version of it on their EP B-Side Ourselves, and Sting included a Gil Evans arranged version of the song on his ... Nothing Like the Sun album.

* Sting on the 1987 album ... Nothing Like the Sun.

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So I reckoned he'd be OK but I didn't figure Sting would see it that way ...

" Englishman in New York " is a song by Sting, from his 1987 album ... Nothing Like the Sun.

Sting was from a jazz-rock background, and wasn't very familiar with the punk music, so the bulk of the song writing fell on Copeland, who penned the majority of the band's early repertoire, including " Fall Out ", " Nothing Achieving ", " Landlord " and " Dead End Job ".

* Dire Straits – " Money for Nothing " ( with Sting ), " Sultans Of Swing " ( W 18: 00 );

At the shows they played new versions of " Two Hearted Spider " and " The Sting " as well as two new songs, " Sugar " and " Nothing ".

When Dire Straits performed " Money for Nothing " at the 1985 Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium, the performance featured a guest appearance by Sting.

" Money for Nothing " and " Brothers in Arms " were performed at the 1997 Music for Montserrat concert, with Clapton on rhythm guitar, Sting performing background vocals and Phil Collins on drums.

* With similar tongue-in-cheek humor as the 1981 launch of MTV in the U. S. ( where the first video was the Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles ), the first video shown on MTV Europe was Money for Nothing by Dire Straits, which, appropriately, starts and finishes with repetition of the line " I want my MTV ", voiced by Sting.