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.

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.

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.

* The Friends of Justice, a group that formed to support the 47 people accused in the Tulia Drug Sting.

Veruca Salt performed another single, " Shutterbug ", on Saturday Night Live ; however, instead of the featured musical group performing two songs as had been tradition, the musical performances were split between Sting and Veruca Salt.

An investment group in Kansas City had an interest in moving the Sting to Kansas City.

Over the years, there would be various incarnations of the group, with Flair and Arn Anderson as the two permanent members, while a number of different wrestlers, including Lex Luger, Barry Windham, Sting, Sid Vicious, Paul Roma, Brian Pillman, Chris Benoit, Jeff Jarrett, Steve McMichael, Curt Hennig, and Dean Malenko, have held the other two spots in the Horsemen.

A few months after the breakup of Strontium 90, Howlett served as bassist for the one-off studio band The Radio Actors, which also included Gong bandmate Steve Hillage on lead guitar and Strontium 90 bandmate Sting ( who came to the group by way of Howlett's recommendation ) on lead vocals.

The group broke up shortly thereafter and Page began feuding with Hogan again, joining Sid Vicious and Rick Steiner in a team effort to take on Hogan, Sting, and Goldberg.

He next appeared in Where is thy Sting ?, infuriated that Jazz, Sentinel Prime, Jetfire and Jetstorm were heading to Earth while after Wasp and attempting to get them to turn back, with Ultra Magnus " calming " him to let his group proceed with their mission.

In July, Hogan's father, alongside Sting, began feuding with a mysterious group of masked men, who had dubbed themselves the " Aces & 8s ".

Flair, Arn and Ole Anderson, and long standing rival Sting formed the group in a shocker.

At the culmination of this feud the group returned to being heels, kicking Sting out for daring to challenge Ric Flair for the World Title.

PABAAH was best known on this level for its extensive and frequently-updated website list of those who have made statements that are considered by the group to be either anti-Bush or " anti-American ", including non-Americans like Canadians Neil Young and Dave Thomas, as well as British musician Sting.

Kirk Hammett of Metallica covered the song on live performances, Skid Row ( not the original group of that name ) released a live version of it on their EP B-Side Ourselves, and Sting included a Gil Evans arranged version of the song on his ... Nothing Like the Sun album.

tour itself, Springsteen led a group performance of " Chimes of Freedom " featuring the other artists on the tour: Tracy Chapman, Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Youssou N ' Dour, with each taking turns on the song's verses.

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.

On October 14, 1988 in the World Cup Stadium in Mendoza Los Prisioneros shared the stage with Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman, Bruce Springsteen, Youssou N ' Dour, the group mendozino Markama and Chilean group Inti Illimani, performing together on " Get Up, Stand Up " by Bob Marley, 42 to 10 000 18 000 Chileans and Argentines.

By the spring of 1990 Orndorff signed with World Championship Wrestling, making his debut as a member of a group called the “ Dudes with Attitudes " consisting of himself, Sting, Lex Luger, Junkyard Dog, and The Steiner Brothers.

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.

NJPAC also presents a diverse group of visiting artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Sarah Brightman, Sting, ' N Sync, Lauryn Hill, the Vienna Boys ' Choir, Yo Yo Ma, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

This Might Sting A Little was the second album by Christian metal group Disciple, in 1999.

The tour roster featured Stewart Copeland performing with a diverse group of international musicians including: Percussion de Guinnea, a leading drum group from Africa ; VINX, who recently toured with Sting ; and Ray Lema, an original performer on the Rhythmatist album and video.