Sting Turns 75: the Man Behind the Name, the Songs and the Stories
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Happy 75th Birthday Sting (Police)
Happy 75th birthday Sting (Police). Let your soul be your pilot. Also celebrating birthdays: the Police’s Reggatta De Blanc (1979), Ghost In The Machine (1981) and—tomorrow—Zenyatta Mondatta (1980). Photo for MAGNET by Wes Orshoski. Read Trans Am in MAGNET on who’s cooler, Sting or Bono: The post Happy 75th Birthday Sting (Police) appeared first on Magnet Magazine.
Sting turns 75: the man behind the name, the songs and the stories
On October 2, 1951, in Wallsend, a shipbuilding town just outside Newcastle upon Tyne, Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born. Seventy-five years later, the world knows him simply as Sting — a name so familiar that even his real one can sound strangely unfamiliar. The story of that name is almost too perfect to have…
On October 2, English bassist, singer, and actor Sting, the former frontman of the Police who is also a successful solo artist, celebrates his seventy-fifth birthday. He is known for such memorable compositions as Roxanne, Message In a Bottle, Every Breath You Take, Fragile, Desert Rose, and Englishman in New York.
Sting, one of the kings of British pop, has explored almost every musical style except heavy metal in his half-century on the music scene. This British singer, bassist and composer, whose real name is Gordon Matthew Sumner, was at the origin of the band Police, and later went on a solo career.
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