1- The Police were a British rock band formed in London in 1977.
2- Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, founded the Rainforest Foundation in 1988
3- Sting was the bass player and lead singer for the influential ’70s-’80s new wave group The Police.
4- His Born name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner
5- in 2010, the band were ranked 40th on VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time
6- The Police were voted the 70th Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone.
7- Sting is the eldest of four children born to Audrey, a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and engineer.
8- The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s
9- Sting filmed his son Jake Sumner’s birth and put it in his movie, Bring on the Night (1985).
10- Sting appeared in the cartoon series Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
11- Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards
12- His song “Roxanne” was covered by George Michael on the album “Songs from the Last Century”.
13- Sting attended Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997.
14- Sting was ranked #63 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll and #9 on VH1’s 100 Sexiest Artists.
15- Sting and all of The Police members went blond because of Wrigley’s gum.
16- The Police won a number of music awards, including six Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards—winning Best British Group once, an MTV Video Music Award
17- Sting was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Police) on 10 March 2003.
18- in 1983 Rolling Stone labelled them “the first British New Wave act to break through in America on a grand scale, and possibly the biggest band in the world.
19- Sting is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
20- Sting appears towards the end of the song, singing the famous line “I want my MTV”.
21- In 2006, Paste ranked Sting 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters
22- Sting wrote his most popular song “Every Breath You Take” after waking up in the middle of the night from a dream.
23- He is the godfather of Madonna’s newborn son, Rocco Ritchie.
24- Sting is a former bus conductor and tax officer.
25- Sting played Mack the Knife in Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera in 1989
26- Their 1978 debut album, Outlandos d’Amour, reached No. 6 in the UK Albums Chart.
27- Sting got his nickname “Sting” from the black and gold rugby shirts he used to wear, which made him look like a hornet.
28- The Police started as a punk rock band, but soon expanded their music vocabulary to incorporate reggae, pop and new wave sonorities to their sound
29- Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music
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