ON THIS DAY...

2011: Sting performed at the Verizon Wireless Theatre in Houston, USA.
2008: Sting & Edin Karamazov performed a rehearsal concert at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris ahead of their planned 'Songs from the Labyrinth' tour of Asia and Australia.
2007: The Police performed at Phillips Arena in Atlanta, USA.
2006: Sting & Trudie took part in a performance of 'Twin Spirits' at Salisbury Cathedral.
1999: Sting performed a concert for Sirius Satellite Radio and their partners at New York's Beacon Theatre.
1998: Sting was in New York attending the late, great, Kenny Kirkland's funeral.
1996: Sting performed at the Point in Dublin, Ireland. The single 'I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying' was released in the UK.
1989: Sting appeared as Macheath in the '3 Penny Opera' at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre in New York.
1988: Sting performed at Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia. ▶
SUMMONER'S TALES...
"My songs aren't necessarily autobiographical - they are certainly are taken from a reservoir of emotion that I've experienced in my life, and so hearing a song of my own on the radio will bring up those memories and that's good. I think memories are a very important human quality."