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.

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 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.

The Sting CD and DVD were taken directly from an experimental webcast that Lawless claims to have had no control over.

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.

With his wife Trudie Styler and Raoni Metuktire, a Kayapó Indian leader in Brazil, Sting founded the Rainforest Foundation Fund to help save the rainforests and protect the rights of the indigenous peoples living there.

In 1977, Copeland founded The Police with singer-bassist Sting and guitarist Henry Padovani ( who was soon replaced by Andy Summers ), which became one of the top bands of the 1980s.

After playing with Sting, Miles Davis and other artists, Marsalis founded this band to create a new sound by merging classical jazz with rock, pop, R & B and hip-hop influences.

In 1974, Head received a final Oscar win for her work on The Sting.

* 1974 – The Sting – won

The Chicago Sting ( 1974 – 1988 ) was an American professional soccer team based in Chicago, Illinois.

1974 – 75: The Chicago Sting were the dream child of Lee Stern, a leading Chicago commodities broker, who in 1974 took an expensive gamble that his hometown would accept soccer as a major league sport.

In the summer of 1975 a sparse crowd of 4, 500 watched the Sting ’ s very first home game and as it began so it continued with an average that year of around the 4, 000 mark – although close to 14, 000 did turn out to see the Sting take on the 1974 Polish World Cup team in a friendly.

He played for the Vancouver Whitecaps from 1974 to 1977, the Chicago Sting in 1978 and 1979, the New York Cosmos in 1980, and the Toronto Blizzard from 1981 to 1984.

In film, entertainment, and television, Dartmouth is represented by Budd Schulberg, Academy Award winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, Michael Phillips, who won the Academy Award for best picture as co-producer of The Sting, Rachel Dratch, a cast member of Saturday Night Live, creator of Grey's Anatomy Shonda Rhimes, film director and producer Jethro Rothe-Kushel (" The Oscars "), VP of Fox Searchlight, Zola Mashariki, Chris Meledandri Executive Producer of Ice Age, Horton Hears a Who!

In 1984, BBC Radio 4 broadcast two 90-minute plays based on Titus Groan and Gormenghast, adapted by Brian Sibley and starring Sting as Steerpike and Freddie Jones as the Artist ( narrator ).

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.

*" Russians " ( song ), from the album The Dream of the Blue Turtles, by Sting

Scott has also twice used songs by Sting during the film credits (" Valparaiso " for White Squall and " Someone to Watch Over Me " for the movie of the same title ).

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.

* A 1989 Broadway production, billed as 3 Penny Opera, translated by Michael Feingold starred Sting as Macheath.

** Sting operation, an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime, by means of deception

*" Sting ≠ 3 ", a song by Si Berg from A Bugged Out Mix

* Sting operation, an undercover operation staged by law enforcement to catch a person committing a crime

* Sting Energy Drink, a Philippines / Pakistani energy drink bottled by Pepsi-Cola

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.

In 1982, Sting furthered his acting career by co-starring in the Richard Loncraine film Brimstone and Treacle.

The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 that involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters ( Paul Newman and Robert Redford ) to con a mob boss ( Robert Shaw ).

# Inspired by Schuller's recording, the producer of the movie The Sting had Marvin Hamlisch score Joplin's music for the film, thereby bringing Joplin to a mass, popular public.

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.

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.

Gollum, who disliked anything made by Elves, was afraid of Sting.

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.

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE ( born 2 October 1951 ), known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist, actor and philanthropist.

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?