ON THIS DAY...

2020: Sting appeared as Jackie White in The Last Ship at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
2016: Sting performed a short set with composer J. Ralph at the Sundance Festival in Park City, UT including the debut of new song 'The Empty Chair'.
2015: Sting appeared as Jackie White in The Last Ship at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York.
2005: Sting performed at the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. ▶
2004: Sting opened his 'Sacred Love' world tour at the James L Knight Center in Miami, USA. ▶
2001: Sting performed at the Civic Centre in Pensacola, USA and the '...All This Time' album was certified gold in the USA.
1998: Sting was joined by Kenny Kirkland and actor Willem Dafoe to perform at the opening of the new Jivamukti Yoga Centre in New York.
1997: 'Close-Up North' was broadcast in the North East and featured an interview and several clips from Sting's November 1996 show at Newcastle Arena.
1982: The Police performed at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, USA.
1979: The Police performed with Eberhard Schoener at the Stadthalle in Freiburg, Germany.
1977: Sting and his family moved to London.
SUMMONER'S TALES...
"Everyone around me used to go to work at the shipyard as a matter of course. I often sat on the ferry dock as a child, with a shipyard to my left and a shipyard to my right, thinking: 'I don't want to work there, how do I get away?'"