ON THIS DAY...

2024: Sting performed at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, USA.
2011: Sting performed at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada. ▶
2009: Sting was interviewed on the Andrew Marr show and also performed 'Soul Cake'.
2005: Sting & Trudie were among the guests at a gala at the New York Museum of Modern Art attended by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall.
2001: Sting recorded a 'Parkinson' TV Special at BBC Television Centre in London. He performed several live songs in the hour long programme. ▶
1996: Sting performed at the State Theatre in Sydney, Australia.
1991: Sting performed in Reggio Calabria in Italy. ▶
1989: Sting appeared as Macheath in the '3 Penny Opera' at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre in New York.
1980: The Police performed at Warnors Theatre in Fresno, USA.
1979: The Police performed at the Palace Theatre in Houston, USA.
1978: The Police performed at Stage One in Buffalo during the first tour of the USA.
1977: The Police performed with Eberhard Schoener in a Circus Tent in Munich, Germany.
SUMMONER'S TALES...
"I think pessimism is a disease. I think you have to be optimistic in any situation that you enter for a solution or else it's simply self-fulfilling. Pessimism is self fulfilling. So yes, I'm optimistic. I'm forced to be, it's been my strategy for all of my life and I still am optimistic."