Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 24 February 2014 . Retrieved 12 February 2014. In 2007, Sting surprised and delighted fans of The Police when the group performed together on the Grammy Awards television broadcast. The band also announced it would tour for the first time in over two decades. He also continued with his solo career, releasing the holiday album If On a Winter's Night. . . in 2009. 'The Last Ship' Broadway Musical

Music Week Fact Sheets. Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 8 September 1979. p.22 . Retrieved 12 October 2022. Sting made his debut as a Broadway lyricist and composer in October 2014 with the launch of The Last Ship. He even joined the cast in that December in an effort to draw in more theater goers. Unfortunately, Sting's celebrity wasn't enough to boost sales, and The Last Ship closed in January 2015. In October 2017 it was announced that Sting has made plans to bring the musical to the U.K., set first to premiere in his childhood hometown of Newcastle, in March 2018. Personal Life Best Known For: Sting, born Gordon Sumner, is an English singer, songwriter and philanthropist best known as the frontman of The Police.Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting, was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on October 2, 1951. He is best known for his singing career, both with the 1980s band The Police and as a solo artist. Sting is also a distinguished songwriter and actor, as well as an active philanthropist in causes from environmentalism to human rights. The Police

Tobler, John (2016). "Police - Reggatta De Blanc". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. London: Cassell Illustrated. p.428. The best-selling single of 1983, and the fifth best-selling single of the 1980’s in the United States Sting: I think the ambiguity is intrinsic in the song however you treat it because the words are so sadistic. On one level, it’s a nice long song with the classic relative minor chords, and underneath there’s this distasteful character talking about watching every move. I enjoy that ambiguity. I watched Andy Gibb singing it with some girl on TV a couple of weeks ago, very loving, and totally misinterpreting it. (Laughter) I could still hear the words, which aren’t about love at all.Some seem to feel that they are a kind of god and reveal in their songs the way to fix the world. I made a parody of this and in the end it turns that what I’m selling is a detergent. It’s just a joke, nothing polemical, I believe".