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Trivia
Birth name: Gordon Matthew Sumner
Date of birth: 2 October 1951
Place of birth: Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Spouse: Trudie Styler (20 August 1992 - present) 4 children, Frances Tomelty (1 May 1976 - March 1984) (divorced) 2 children
He has 6 children, two from his first wife,
four from Trudie.
Lived with Trudie Styler for about 10 years
before marrying her.
Bass player and lead singer for influential
70s-80s new wave group 'The Police'.
His favorite music is actually jazz.
Was a certified primary school teacher in
England.
Got his nickname "Sting" from the
black and gold rugby shirts he used to wear, which made him look like a
hornet.
Sting appeared in Threepenny Opera in
Washington, D.C. in the 1980s.
Attended Warwick University in Coventry,
England but never graduated.
Son, Joseph, is a singer in a band and bears
a striking resemblance to Sting. Joe's singing sounds similar to his
father's as well.
Is the godfather of Madonna's new born,
Rocco.
The comic book character John Constantine
from DC's Hellblazer was designed to look like Sting.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
(as a member of the Police) on 10 March 2003.
Album "Nothing Like the Sun" is
dedicated to his mother, Audrey.
Children: Joseph (b. 23 November 1976),
Fuchsia Katherine (b. 17 April 1982) by Frances Tomelty; Brigitte
"Mickey" Michael (b. 19 January 1984), Jake (b. 24 May 1985),
Eliot "Coco" Paulina (b. 30 July 1990), Giacomo Luke (b. 17
December 1995) by Trudie Styler.
Filmed his son Jake's birth and put in his
movie, Bring on the Night (1985)
He was a member of Band Aid (1984).
Appointed CBE in the 2003 Queen's Birthday
Honours List.
Now resides in a Malibu house formerly owned
by actor Larry Hagman.
Sting takes in an average of $2000.00 per
day in royalties for this now 20 year old song "Every Breath You
Take." The song is officially the most requested radio song of all
time.
His song "Roxanne" was covered by
George Michael on the album "Songs from the Last Century".
Performed for the BBC's annual Children in
Need charity event. [21 November 2003]
Is a big fan of "Richard Laymer, the
Copy Guy," a popular character created by Rob Schneider for
"Saturday Night Live" (1975). Sting was the first SNL
host/musical guest to appear in a "Copy Guy" sketch; he later
wrote the cast and crew a letter from "Sting. The Stingster. Der
Stinglehoffer. Sting-a-ling-a-ding-dong. Sting-o. The Stingman."
Speaks fluent Portuguese.
The Police were voted the 70th Greatest Rock
'n' Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone.
The comic book character of John Constantine
(Hellblazer), eventually featured in the Keanu Reeves movie, was
designed to look like Sting, and, in fact, was created solely for the
purpose of including a character who looks like Sting in the Swamp Thing
comic. In one Swamp Thing issue, there's a boat called the USS Gordon
Sumner.
Wrote "Every Breath You Take"
after waking up in the middle of the night from a dream.
His band, The Police, announced their break
up in 1984, but toured together for two more years, officially making
1986 the year they broke up. They have never reunited since, though
Sting performs some Police songs during his concerts.
His song "Roxanne" is one of the
top 50 bar/jukebox songs of all time, according to VH-1.
His album with The Police,
"Synchronicity", was the album that finally knocked Michael
Jackson's "Thriller", the best selling album of all time, out
of the number one spot it held for most of 1983.
Along with Trudie Styler, he introduced
Madonna to her second husband Guy Ritchie
Former son-in-law of actor-writer Joseph
Tomelty
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