ON THIS DAY...
2022: Sting performed at the Printemps De Perouges Festival in Perouges, France.More ▶
2018: Sting & Shaggy performed at the Concert at Sea Festival in Brouwersdam, Holland. More ▶
2016: Sting and Peter Gabriel performed at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada. More ▶
2013: Sting performed at the Life Festival in Oswiecim, Poland. More ▶
2012: Sting performed at the EDP Cool Jazz Festival in Oeiras, Portugal. More ▶
2011: Sting performed at Zimny Stadion Ondreja Nepelu in Bratislava, Slovakia. More ▶
2010: Accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Sting performed at the Chastain Park in Atlanta, USA. More ▶
2008: The Police performed at the Hard Rock Calling event in London's Hyde Park. More ▶
2007: The Police performed at the Toyota Center in Houston, USA. More ▶
2005: Sting and Trudie organised and attended a vintage fashion related event called 'Respoke Bespoke' on behalf of the Rainforest Foundation in London.
2004: Apple/Itunes launched 'iTunes Essentials' featuring exclusive Sting performances and interview footage. Sting performed at the Tweeter Centre for the Performing Arts in Boston, USA.
2001: Sting performed at the Theatreplatz vor der Semperoper in Dresden, Germany. More ▶
2000: Sting and several members of the band took on Garry Kasparov at chess to raise funds for the Rainforest Foundation. The match took place in the studio of 'Good Morning America', in Times Square, New York.
1997: Sting performed at the Glastonbury festival in England for the first time. Inevitably, it turns out to be a mud bath. More ▶
1996: Sting performed at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre in Raleigh, USA. More ▶
1991: Sting performed at the Moslestadion in Freiburg, Germany.
SUMMONER'S TALES...
"I learned to read music on the job. We were in a big band, and they'd throw these bass parts at you. A lot of the parts you could busk. If it was a twelve bars blue you could busk that but it if it was a more complex arrangement you had to learn to read the dots."
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