He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs ( the CD was not released in the U. S .), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of " Murder By Numbers ", set to the tune " Stolen Moments " by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and " dedicated " to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

The CD and DVD were to be entitled On such a night and was intended to feature re-workings of Sting favourites such as " Roxanne " and " If You Love Somebody Set Them Free.

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.

In 1987, Evans recorded a live CD with Sting, featuring big band arrangements of songs by and with The Police.

The two-year run culminated in All This Time, a CD / DVD-taping and webcast performance from Sting ’ s estate in Tuscany on September 11, 2001.

The CD and platinum-certified DVD included duets with Sting, Burt Bacharach, Gladys Knight, Jill Scott and Renee Olstead.

1992: He played keyboards with the Carla Olson & Mick Taylor band, which resulted in the live CD " Too Hot for Snakes " and also featured the players Ian McLagan, Jesse Sublett ( who also wrote the lead track, " Who Put the Sting on the Honey Bee ,"), George Callins, Rick Hemmert, Joe Sublett, and Juke Logan.

Starting his career in the United States as an art director at Portland, Oregon advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy, Bucher went on to design numerous CD packages including Brand New Day: The Remixes for Sting, the soundtrack for the motion picture The Matrix with Keanu Reeves.

The initial CD release featured 15 tracks ( dropping " Another Piece Of Meat ", " Six-String Sting " and " Can't Get Enough ", parts 1 & 2.

A film version directed by Richard Loncraine and starring Denholm Elliott ( Bates ), Joan Plowright ( Mrs. Bates ), Suzanna Hamilton ( Pattie ) and Sting ( Martin ) was released in 1982 and is also available on DVD.

* The Sting ( DVD edition ) ( FBI Agent Polk ( Dana Elcar ))

Things began to sour behind the scenes for the champions, as the NWA launched its first-ever uninterrupted pay-per-view, The Great American Bash, promoters were attempting to draw a large gate and, according to the DVD Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen, Blanchard had suggested a rematch with the Road Warriors, but instead they were booked against Sting and Koloff, ( whom they wrestled to a time limit draw ), and when the PPV payouts were given out, it was discovered that Dillon who was their manager received 3 times the payout of the 2-time World Tag Team Champions.

Also the special edition DVD of the film titled " Godzilla: Monster Edition " also contains three episodes of the TV series " What Dreams May Come ", " Monster Wars Part 1 " and " Where Is Thy Sting?

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.

Sting was interested in the experience of having his brain scanned by fMRI while different types of music were played to him.

Sting and his wife Trudie Styler were awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award in Sherborn, Massachusetts on 30 June 2000.

Before the 2001 season began there was already question if Las Vegas could support a professional team due to past failed attempts with: Las Vegas Americans ( Soccer 1984-85 ), Las Vegas Dustdevils ( Soccer-CISL-1994-1995 ), Las Vegas Posse ( Football-CFL-1994 ) Las Vegas Quicksilvers ( Soccer-NASL-1976-1978 ), Las Vegas Seagulls ( Soccer-ASL-1979 ), Las Vegas Sting ( Football-Arena Football League-1994-1995 ) and Las Vegas Thunder ( IHL-1993-1999 ) The Outlaws were sponsored by Cox Communications, New York-New York Hotel & Casino, Station Casinos, PacifiCare Health Systems and Findlay Toyota.

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.

Shania Twain, No Doubt, and Sting were featured during the halftime show, which was sponsored by AT & T Wireless.

This album featured collaborations with Joe Strummer, Annie Lennox, and Sting as well as new songs that were very reminiscent of Cliff's original hits.

Sting and Michael Jackson were both considered for the part, however it was ultimately decided that David Bowie would be the most suitable choice.

The Sting were then the sister team to the Charlotte Hornets.

But the magic ended there for the Sting, as they were swept by the Los Angeles Sparks in 2 games.

The Sting posted a solid 18-14 record in the 2002 season, but were swept by the Washington Mystics in the first round of the playoffs.

The Sting played the same Sun in the playoffs, and were swept out in 2 games.

The Sting had a new arena and were clearly making progress in the rebuilding.

The Sting were to play in the Sprint Center, which was due to open in the Fall of 2007.

Among those on Allers's production team were supervising animator Andreas Deja, who was in charge of the witch character of Yzma, and pop musician Sting, who, in the wake of Elton John's success with The Lion King's soundtrack, had been convinced to write several songs for the film.

• They were the first stage shows in the UK to present comedic performers ( such as Monty Python and Rowan Atkinson ) in the same setting and shows as their contemporaries in rock music ( such as Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton and Sting ).

The primary artists who had signed on to perform were Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Youssou N ' Dour and Tracy Chapman.

Some songs like " Inside " and " Dead Man's Rope " were well received ; and Sting had experimented with new sounds, in particular the more rock-influenced " This War ".

During most Sting games, the upper level and a portion of the lower level were curtained off, reducing capacity to around 10, 000.

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.

On the September 16 edition of Reaction, Nash and Sting were joined by D ' Angelo Dinero, who claimed to have gotten inside information from Bischoff's secretary Miss Tessmacher, that would suggest that Nash and Sting were right about Hogan and Bischoff being up to something.

He has taken part in recordings by Khaled, Miguel Bosé, Carmen Linares, Manolo Sanlúcar, Wagner Tiso, Rosario, Nacho Cano, Alejandro Sanz, Sting, etc., and has shared the stage with the greatest of contemporary artists: Paco de Lucía, Stanley Jordan, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Milton Nascimento.

** During the match, Ric Flair and Elizabeth interfered trying to attack Sting, but were both taken down by Jimmy Hart and Vampiro.

Later taken down and replaced with the Sting Ray.

*" 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.

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 ".

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.