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Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran sang between contributions from George Michael and Sting.
He also appeared as a writer and singer on Vonda Shepard's Ally McBeal: For Once in My Life album, and he sang with Sting a duet of " Every Breath You Take " in an episode of the series.
For the Olympic Games of Athens 2004 she sang " A Thousand Years ," as a duet with Sting.
The album featured an all-star lineup of artists, including Peter Gabriel, Oleta Adams, Elton John, Sting, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, Meat Loaf, Sinéad O ' Connor, Robert Palmer, Cher, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, Courtney Pine, Issy Van Randwyck, Lisa Stansfield and Carly Simon, all of whom sang Gershwin tunes live with an orchestra and Adler adding harmonica solos.
Roger sang on " Roxanne " on stage with The Police on their 2007 world tour, and has regularly recorded with Sting.

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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 ).
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.
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 ".
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.
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 ".
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.
Sting performed in jazz bands on evenings, weekends, and during breaks from college and from teaching.
In the 1985 documentary Bring on the Night he was addressed by a journalist as " Gordon ", and replied: " My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?
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.
Sting was reportedly embarrassed when his publishing company insisted on a co-writing credit ( and royalties ) since his " I Want My MTV " line, was sung to exactly the same notes as the chorus of " Don't Stand So Close to Me ".
In 1985 Sting provided a short guest vocal performance on the Miles Davis album You're Under Arrest.
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.
During this period, Sting was also recording music for the upcoming Disney film Kingdom of the Sun, which went on to be reworked into The Emperor's New Groove.
The song is based on Johann Sebastian Bach ’ s Praeambulum 1 C-Major ( BWV 924 ) from the Klavierbuechlein fuer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach though Sting gave little comment on this adaptation.
Sting went on the Broken Music tour, touring smaller venues, with a four piece band starting in Los Angeles on 28 March 2005 and ending this " College Tour " on 14 May 2005.
Sting appears as a guest on the 2005 Monkey Business CD by American hip-hop group The Black Eyed Peas, adding vocals to the track " Union " which makes heavy use of samples from his Englishman in New York.
During 2006, Sting collaborated with Roberto Livi in producing a Spanish language version of his cult classic " Fragile " entitled " Fragilidad " on the album Rhythms Del Mundo by Latino recording legends " The Buena Vista Sound " ( previously known as the Buena Vista Social Club ) available via www. apeuk. org.
Sting was joined by Stevie Wonder on harmonica.
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.

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Prior to the Live Aid concert, in November 1984 Sting performed " Do They Know It's Christmas?
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 also split up each day with a different topic such as Gaming, Sports and other types of activities and did away with " Make and Do " and " Pet " sections of Echo Island.
Also during this era, and after departing the group, she took part in Bob Geldof's historic Band Aid recording of " Do They Know It's Christmas ", which included Bono, Boy George, Sting, George Michael and other prominent UK artists.

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They advanced to their first ever WNBA Finals and swept the fourth-seeded Charlotte Sting from the Eastern Conference.
They also recorded two live albums from these tours, Double Live Assassins and The Sting respectively.
They also acquired center Janel McCarville through the dispersal draft associated with the dissolution of the Charlotte Sting.
They also make a appearance in the card game scene of the movie The Sting ',' as the preferred deck of Doyle Lonnegan.
They would sweep the Charlotte Sting in the first round, but lose to New York again in the Eastern Conference Finals 2 games to 1.
They were the first stage shows in the UK to present comedic performers ( such as Monty Python and Rowan Atkinson ) in the same setting and shows as their contemporaries in rock music ( such as Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton and Sting ).
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo was immortalized in the Sting song " They Dance Alone " at an Amnesty International concert in Buenos Aires in 1988 and in a concert in Buenos Aires in 1998, the Mothers appeared on stage with Sting to announce their children's names to the crowd as the song was performed.
They will then follow that with 14 dates in the US supporting Scorpions on their Get Your Sting and Blackout farewell tour.
* " They Dance Alone ( Cueca Solo )" appeared on the album ... Nothing Like the Sun by Sting.
They have released a first single, Sting of Battle.
They faced off with Smith and his new partner, Sting, at Beach Blast in July.
They feuded with Luger, Sting, Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner and El Gigante during this time.
They feuded with the Dudes With Attitudes which consisted of Sting, Luger, the Steiner Brothers, Paul Orndorff and Junkyard Dog.
They primarily feuded with Hulk Hogan and Sting.
They created memorable videos for The Police (" Every Breath You Take ", " Synchronicity II ", " Wrapped Around Your Finger "), Duran Duran (" Girls on Film ", " A View to a Kill "), Herbie Hancock (" Rockit "), Go West (" We Close Our Eyes "), Frankie Goes to Hollywood (" Two Tribes ", " The Power of Love "), Sting (" If You Love Somebody Set Them Free " " Fields of Gold "), and Wang Chung (" Everybody Have Fun Tonight "), among many others, up to Godley's video for the 1996 single from The Beatles, " Real Love ", featured in the Beatles Anthology.
They quickly kicked Sting out of the group, and Anderson retired again to manage the Horsemen, who by then also included Barry Windham and Sid Vicious.
They feuded with Hogan, Randy Savage and Sting. In early 1995, after not being able to end Hogan's career, Avalanche left the group and Sullivan turned on The Butcher.
They appeared in the second series of The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer as talk show hosts again, often interviewing celebrities such as Sting and Damon Hill.
They were runners-up again in 1984 when they lost to the Chicago Sting two games to none in a best of three championship series.
They feuded throughout the spring, with Sting getting the upper hand on Vampiro in nearly all their encounters.
They had brief feuds with Lex Luger and Sting and The Road Warriors before starting a long feud with Rick and Scott Steiner in 1996.

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