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.

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 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 ".

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

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.

By this time, Sting was becoming a major star, and he established a career beyond The Police by branching out into acting.

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.

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

" In a Qantas inflight radio program named " Reeling in the Years ", Copeland said an ongoing argument between himself and Sting over what drum machine to use in the sessions was " the straw that broke the camel's back ", and led to the group's unraveling.

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.

Joplin's music was no longer popular by the 1930s, although its use in The Sting evokes the 1930s gangster movie, The Public Enemy, which also featured Joplin's music.

An artifact from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy universe of Middle-earth, Sting was an Elvish knife or dagger made in Gondolin in the First Age.

Sting was a magical weapon used by Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit.

Sting was likely forged by the elves of Gondolin in the First Age.

Sting was useful in Shelob's Lair when it cut though Shelob's webs with ease.

Gollum, who disliked anything made by Elves, was afraid of Sting.

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.

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.

Sting was born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the eldest of four children born to Audrey ( née Cowell ), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and engineer.

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 January 1977, Sting moved from Newcastle to London, and soon thereafter he joined Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani ( who was soon replaced by Andy Summers ) to form the New Wave band The Police.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, commented that " The Police had a song called ' Canary in the Coalmine ', and Sting had made a point of campaigning for good causes, which explains why he was singled out in this sharp critique of celebrity posturing and media panic.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

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Others such as department store magnate James Cash Penney, Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy, actor / martial artist Chuck Norris, wrestlers Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, AJ Styles, Ted DiBiase and wrestler Sting, and actors Jesse McCartney, Kirk Cameron, and Mr. T are also mentioned as being born again.

Such competitions include the Polar Bear Invitational in Winnipeg, the Sting in Victoria, and the Alberta Provincial Championships in Edmonton or Calgary.

Sting has purchased the film rights to the Gormenghast novels.

) it also features archival footage of Billy Idol, Sting, Shane McGowan, and a young teenaged girl who would grow up to be Siouxsie Sioux, among others.

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.

Subsequently the motion picture The Sting brought ragtime to a wide audience with its soundtrack of Joplin tunes.

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.

The collaboration with Sting resulted in a Grammy-nomination for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals.

Scorpion anatomy: 1 = Cephalothorax or Prosoma ; 2 = Abdomen or Mesosoma ; 3 = Tail or Metasoma ; 4 = Claws or Pedipalp s 5 = Legs ; 6 = Mouth parts or Chelicerae ; 7 = pincers or Chelae ; 8 = Moveable claw or Tarsus ( zoology ) | Tarsus ; 9 = Fixed claw or Manus ( skeleton ) | Manus ; 10 = Sting or Telson ; 11 = Anus.

* A 1989 Broadway production, billed as 3 Penny Opera, translated by Michael Feingold starred Sting as Macheath.

Sting famously grew a thin moustache for the role, and when it closed after 65 performances he shaved it off onstage with a straight razor.

By his naming the blade " Sting " we see Bilbo's acceptance of the kinds of cultural and linguistic practices found in Beowulf, signifying his entrance into the ancient world in which he found himself.

Among others, Lemmy Kilmister will invariably be referred to as " Lemmy out of Motörhead ", Bono as " Bonio " ( a brand of dog biscuit ) and Sting as " Sting ( real name Gordon Sting )", mixing the singer's birth and stage names.

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.

*** Air-dropped Mk. 46 torpedoes, Sting Ray torpedoes

* Sting ( Middle-earth ), a sword belonging to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings