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.

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.

Reed claimed to have turned down major roles in two hugely successful Hollywood movies: The Sting ( 1973 ) ( although he did appear in the sequel ) and Jaws ( 1975 ).

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.

It is also hometown and birthplace to internationally successful musician, Sting.

He engaged in feuds with Sid Vicious and Big Van Vader, whom he challenged for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Slamboree, and formed a mildly successful alliance with Sting.

Love at First Sting became the most successful album of the band in the USA where it peaked at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1984 and went triple platinum.

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

Experiencing massive success in the early 1980s with 5 # 1 singles, lead singer Sting eventually went solo and became a very successful and highly respected musician, especially in the US.

By the time he starred in The Green Hornet, Williams had become successful investing in various commercial ventures ; a TV Guide profile of 1966, titled " Banker with a Sting ," characterized him as " your friendly neighborhood tycoon.

After becoming a villain, Rick reunited with Scott on a few occasions and began feuding with Sting, culminating with a successful title defense at The Great American Bash on June 13.

After a successful first season with the Manic, he began the 1982 season in Montreal, but after five games the Manic sent him to the Chicago Sting.

Brown was drafted late in the first round, 21st overall, in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft by the Boston Bruins following a successful career in the Ontario Hockey League as a defenceman with the Belleville Bulls and the Sarnia Sting.

This has been done by Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XII, by Sting many times in WCW and TNA, and has gained major controversy over its role in the death of wrestler Owen Hart at Over the Edge.

On 2 October 1991 ( Sting's 40th birthday ), Summers joined Sting on stage at the Hollywood Bowl during The Soul Cages Tour to perform " Roxanne " and " Every Breath You Take ".

Sting with the group at Madison Square Garden, August 2007

( The final card, " The Sting ", introducing the film's dramatic conclusion, had no music at all.

The film version of Sting is 23 inches long ( 24 while in scabbard ) and 3 inches wide at the hilt.

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 ".

In September 1981, Sting made his first live solo appearance, performing on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Other Ball at the invitation of producer Martin Lewis.

In September 1985, Sting performed " If You Love Somebody Set Them Free " at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York.

", the latter earning Sting his second Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 36th Grammy Awards.

In September 1997, Sting performed " I'll Be Missing You " with Puff Daddy at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards in tribute of the late Notorious B. I. G ..

Sting with The Police at Madison Square Garden, New York, 1 August 2007

On 4 March 2010, Sting performed at the Meydan Racecourse launch in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with an estimated sell-out crowd of 16, 000.

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.

On 21 October 1991, Sting joined Don Henley and Billy Joel at New York's Madison Square Garden for a benefit rock show, The Concert for Walden Woods.

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.

In February 2005, Sting performed at the Leeuwin Estate Concert Series in Western Australia, with the concert raising $ 4 million for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami relief efforts.