ON THIS DAY...
2009: Sting guested at Kathryn Tickell's Surprise Party at Sage Gateshead in Newcastle. ▶
2014: Sting appeared as Jackie White in The Last Ship at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York.
1996: Sting performed at Le Zenith in Pau, France. ▶
1989: Sting appeared as Macheath in the '3 Penny Opera' at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre in New York.
1987: Sting performed at Wembley Arena in London, England.
1985: Sting performed at the Espace Foire in Lille, France.
1983: The Police performed at the NEC in Birmingham, England.
1979: The Police performed at Granby Hall in Leicester, England.
SUMMONER'S TALES...
"My father liked the big bands of the Dorsey Brothers and Benny Goodman, but it was my mother who brought rock and roll into the house on 78 rpm records of black acetate with brightly coloured labels from MGM, RCA, Decca. Little Richard caterwauling 'Tutti Frutti' like a tomcat, Jerry Lee Lewis preaching 'Great Balls of Fire' like a demented evangelist, and Elvis crooning 'All Shook Up' with what I would later identify as rampant sexual innuendo."
