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 exceptionally sharp.

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.

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.

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 ".

The NHL's Phoenix Coyotes and NLL's Arizona Sting began playing in Glendale when Jobing. com Arena ( formerly the Glendale Arena ) opened in December 2003 in Westgate City Center.

* March 1 – Sting plays his last concerts with The Police at the end of the Synchronicity tour ; the band takes a " pause " after the tour and only play a few special events together after this, until 2007, when they would organize a reunion tour.

His losing streak was broken when he received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2001, for the Monsters, Inc. song " If I Didn't Have You ", beating Sting, Enya and Paul McCartney.

Leela initially sees Fry as a friend and nothing more, but deeper affection for him appears occasionally, such as on the numerous occasions when he risks his life for hers (" The Sting "; " Love and Rocket ").

After the match went on a bit, Angle and Sting were out of the ring and when Angle pushed Sting onto Nash, Sting turned around and knocks Nash in the face with a right hand shot, leading to Nash interfering on Angle's behalf, even though earlier he said he wasn't going to help Angle.

His last TNA appearance was a taping broadcast on October 14, 2010, when Nash and Sting both announced they were walking away from TNA rather than being a part of Hogan and Bischoff's regime.

His last TNA appearance was a taping broadcast on October 14, 2010, when Nash and Sting both announced they were walking away from TNA rather than being a part of Hogan and Bischoff's regime.

Sting and Gilbert fought outside the ring, when Rick Steiner came in and piledrived Shane Douglas.

Taylor and Adams, who dominated the UWF tag team scene, lost a match to Steiner and Sting when Taylor kicked Adams foot off the rope as he was being pinned by Sting.

Sting teamed with Koloff at The Great American Bash in July 1988 to challenge Horsemen Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson for the NWA World Tag Team Championship ; Blanchard and Anderson retained the titles when the match ended in a 20-minute time-limit draw.

However, they were thwarted when the real Sting came out and beat Sid to retain the title.

After Taylor was fired, Valentine was left without an angle, and eventually resigned in late 1992 when he was asked to lose to Sting.

A notable part of the feud occurred when Funk used an actual plastic shopping bag to suffocate Flair on television after Flair and Sting defeated Muta and Dick Slater at Clash of the Champions.

The album was the follow-up to the successful Love at First Sting and had some musical differences when compared to its predecessor.

Page became WCW World Heavyweight Champion in April 1999, at Spring Stampede when he defeated Sting, Hogan, and Ric Flair for the title in a Four Way Dance with " Macho Man " Randy Savage as Special Guest Referee.

In September, Flair and Anderson teamed with their bitter rivals, Sting and Lex Luger, to lose to the nWo ( Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and an impostor Sting ) in the WarGames match at Fall Brawl when Luger submitted to the impostor Sting's Scorpion Deathlock.

Head Coach Willy Roy, who had led the Sting to two NASL titles, was replaced by his assistant Eric Geyer in late December, and Karl-Heinz Granitza, the clubs all-time leading goalscorer, who at the beginning of the season had seen his annual salary cut by $ 100, 000 to $ 65, 000, was suspended indefinitely on March 21 after an argument with owner Lee Stern.