ON THIS DAY...
2024: Sting performed at the Germania Insurance Super Stage ahead of the F1 Grand Prix in Austin, USA.
2019: Sting performed at AccorHotels Arena in Paris, France. He was wearing a sling at this, and several other shows, after hurting his shoulder and did not play bass.
2015: Sting performed at the NRK telethon in Oslo at an event raising funds for the Rainforest Foundation.
2011: 'Sting: The Best of 25 Years' was released in the USA.
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2008: Sting and Trudie were honoured in Los Angeles at 2008 Oceana Partners Award Gala for their work with the Rainforest Foundation for which they have raised more than $25 million with their benefit concerts since 1989.
2004: Sting and Trudie were guests at the 'Old Vic New Voices' launch by the Old Vic Theatre at New York's East 13th Street Theatre on October 18.
2000: Sting performed at Castle Hall in Osaka, Japan.
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1999: Sting made a surprise appearance on a VH1's 'Celebrity Karaoke' which was being filmed at Las Vegas's Hard Rock Hotel. He performed The Human League's 'Don't You Want Me Baby'.
1991: Sting performed at Estadio de Baseball in Monterrey, Mexico.
1980: The Police filmed a 'Rockpalast' show at the Grugahalle in Essen, Germany.
SUMMONER'S TALES...
"I had never seen a play or a musical of any description until I was much older. But my mother was a showtunes fanatic. We had all the albums in the house - 'South Pacific', the entire Rodgers and Hammerstein cannon, 'West Side Story', 'My Fair Lady'. So, I would listen to these records and love them."