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.

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 exceptionally sharp.

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.

*" Russians " ( song ), from the album The Dream of the Blue Turtles, by Sting

*" The Sting " ( The Office ), a 2010 episode from the seventh season of the series

*" Sting ≠ 3 ", a song by Si Berg from A Bugged Out Mix

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.

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

Bilbo gave Sting to Frodo Baggins before the Fellowship of the Ring set off from Rivendell.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Sting married actress Frances Tomelty from Northern Ireland, on 1 May 1976.

In 1982, shortly after the birth of his second child, Sting separated from Tomelty and began living with actress ( and later film producer ) Trudie Styler.

Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran sang between contributions from George Michael and Sting.

The second album was Geisha Boys and Temple Girls for the dance troupe Hot Gossip, which used songs formerly recorded by The Human League and Heaven 17, and a track each from Sting and Talking Heads.

The band also worked on the Band Aid single at the end of 1984, with Gregory supplying vocals alongside Midge Ure and Sting, after a personal request from Ure that he attend.

Sting was visiting Montserrat during the recording of the song, and was invited to add some background vocals.

" 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.

Commotion could be heard in the background as Sting tried to leave the hospital and return to defend his title.