ON THIS DAY...
2024: Sting and Billy Joel performed at Petco Park in San Diego, USA. More ▶
2020: Sting & All Saints collaborated on a version of 'Message In A Bottle'. Watch ▶
2013: Sting & Trudie attended the opening night of 'Motown: The Musical' at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
2011: Sting and Elton John performed at the annual Hot Pink Party at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York in aid of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
2005: Sting performed at the Mizzou Arena at the University of Missouri in Columbia MO, USA.
1996: Sting performed at De Bercy in Paris, France. A Sting documentary covering the recording of 'Mercury Falling' was broadcast on 'The South Bank Show' in the UK.
1980: The Police performed at the Palais des Sports in Paris, France.
SUMMONER'S TALES...
"Songwriting is painful, but it's also therapeutic. A songwriter uses songs to process experiences or emotions such as loneliness, sadness, loss or joy. The rules of songwriting - three verses and a middle eight - force you to develop your idea, to find a light at the end of the tunnel by the third verse. If you don't do it, your plight is just circular. This is probably true in life, too."
