ON THIS DAY...

2024: Sting performed at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, USA. ▶
2021: Sting performed at the Colosseum at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, USA.
2011: Sting performed at the Fillmore at Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach, USA. ▶
2004: Sting performed at the Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany. ▶
2000: Sting performed at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, Australia.
1999: Sting performed at Trump Marina in Atlantic City, USA. ▶
1992: The University of Northumbria, in Newcastle, England presented Sting with an Honorary Doctorate of Music in recognition of his contribution to the arts and his influence on world ecology.
1991: Sting performed at Rhein Necker Halle in Heidelberg, Germany.
1989: Sting appeared as Macheath in the '3 Penny Opera' at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre in New York.
1988: Sting performed at Flinders Park National Tennis Centre in Melbourne, Australia. ▶
1983: The Police performed at Reunion Arena in Dallas, USA.
1980: The Police performed at the Music Hall in Houston, USA.
1979: The Police performed at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, USA.
1978: The Police performed at Grendel's Lair in Philadelphia, USA.
SUMMONER'S TALES...
"Symphonicities was an afterthought. We were rehearsing in Abbey Road and basically pushed the 'record' button. Instead of coming in with a few chords for a band and teaching everyone the song, and finding an arrangement by trial and error, you put a score down in front of an orchestra and they play it. It took about the same time to record as it takes to listen to. I think I'm going to make every album like that in the future."