He continued working steadily, varying between dramatic roles, as in The Bride ( 1985 ) with Sting and Jennifer Beals, to the Academy Award-winning Glory ( 1989 ), and comedic roles, as in Hot Shots!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 ) and The Sting ( 1973 ).

Singer-bassist Sting ( Gordon Sumner ) and guitarist Henry Padovani began rehearsing with Copeland in January 1977, and they recorded the first Police single " Fall Out " the following month.

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 ".

In May, ex-Gong musician Mike Howlett invited Sting and former Eric Burdon and the Animals guitarist Andy Summers to form a project band with him for a Gong reunion, which they named Strontium 90.

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.

Paralleling these developments, in 1977 / 78, Sting and Summers recorded and performed ( alongside other invited musicians ) with German experimental composer Eberhard Schoener ; Copeland also joined for a time.

Meanwhile, both Sting's and Summers ' marriages failed ( Sting settled down with new partner Trudie Styler, whom he later married, while Summers, after a brief relationship which produced a son, Andrew Jr., re-married his second wife Kate ).

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 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 with the group at Madison Square Garden, August 2007

According to Sting, " There will be no new album, no big new tour, once we're done with our reunion tour, that's it for the Police ".

The league began with eight teams: the Charlotte Sting, Cleveland Rockers, Houston Comets and New York Liberty in the Eastern Conference ; and the Los Angeles Sparks, Phoenix Mercury, Sacramento Monarchs and Utah Starzz in the Western Conference.

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

In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Sting is depicted as vaguely leaf-shaped, with gentle curving edges.

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.

Sting operations are fraught with ethical concerns over whether they constitute entrapment.

* October 2 – Sting, British rock musician ( The Police )

Restrained by loyalty to Padovani, both Copeland and Sting initially resisted the idea, and the Police began performing as a four-piece version in July 1977.

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

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

As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, three Brit Awards — winning Best British Male in 1994, a Golden Globe, an Emmy Award, and several Oscar nominations for Best Original Song.

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.

According to Sting, who appeared in the documentary Last Play at Shea, he decided to leave The Police while onstage during the 18 August 1983 concert at Shea Stadium because he felt that playing that venue was " Everest ".

Reports surfaced in early 2007 that Sting would reunite with his former Police band mates for a 30th anniversary tour.

Sting performed two of his Police compositions as a soloist – " Roxanne " and " Message in a Bottle "' – appearing on all four nights of the show at the Theatre Royal in London.

Sting also led an impromptu super-group of other musicians ( dubbed The Secret Police ) performing at the show including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Donovan, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in the show's grand finale – Sting's own reggae-tinged arrangement of Bob Dylan's I Shall Be Released.

In June 1986, Sting reunited with The Police for the last three shows of Amnesty's six-date A Conspiracy of Hope concerts of the US.

Sting had first shown his interest in social and political issues in his 1980 Police song " Driven to Tears ", an angry indictment of apathy in the face of world hunger.

Joined by John Mayer and Kanye West, Sting and The Police fittingly ended the show singing " Message in a Bottle ," as the event was dubbed " The SOS Concert.

* Sting occupied a basement flat at 28A Leinster Square in the late seventies during the formative years of The Police.

* Sting ( The Police )

* 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.

Sting has received three awards, twice as a member of The Police.

Three-time award recipient Sting ( musician ) | Sting ( twice as a member of The Police ) performing in 2007

" Every Breath You Take " is a song by The Police on the band's 1983 album Synchronicity, written by Sting and Andy Summers ( but officially credited to Sting only ).