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BIZARRE: Sting - What They Never Told You

“Nostalgia for a time when digital was still new”: How Mk.gee is bringing back a ’90s-era modeler favored by Joni Mitchell, David Lynch, and Sting

The Roland VG-8, released in 1995, was designed as “a toolbox filled with essentially every existing guitar sound” – and, over the past couple of years, has been given a new lease on life by modern-day tone hunters

Guitar World

The Last Ship review – Sting’s sincere but cloying musical stars the man himself – and Shaggy

Glasshouse Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts CentreSting plays a Wallsend foreman navigating the threat of his shipyard’s closure, bringing a renewed version of his musical to Brisbane’s newest theatre

The Guardian - AU

Keith Altham obituary

Journalist who pioneered the role of rock music PR in the UK and looked after the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Beach Boys

The Guardian - UK

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Raye, PinkPantheress and Deep Purple to headline 60th Montreux Jazz Festival

Further performers include Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Lewis Capaldi and Sting.

Evening Standard

Shaggy crashes Sting interview with Jimmy Fallon to perform ‘It Wasn’t Me’

A reggae legend crashed Jimmy Fallon's interview with Sting, as they performed one of the artist's most iconic songs together.

The Independent UK

“Tal came over and said, ‘Sting, it doesn’t quite go the way you’re playing it…’” When Tal Wilkenfeld taught Sting the correct way to play an Aerosmith classic

Sting was performing alongside Steven Tyler and Jeff Beck at the MGM Grand when Wilkenfeld intervened

Guitar World

“He wanted $200 for it. Now it’s worth millions”: Andy Summers was skeptical of Telecasters at first – until he found one that would become one of his main Police guitars

The Strat-lover’s head was eventually turned by a modded Tele that ended up becoming one of his go-to guitars

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Roger Allers obituary

Co-director of the animated Disney hit The Lion King who also worked on The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast

The Guardian - UK

“There’s a truism that ‘a band is only as good as its drummer’. Any band that Josh graced with his presence on the kit was fortunate indeed”: Josh Freese to be given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Drum Workshop

NAMM 2026: Award to be presented at the NAMM show this week

MusicRadar

Why Sting just paid $800,000 to his former Police bandmates, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland

Summers and Copeland launched a legal case last year, claiming “historic underpayment” for their contributions to the Police's hits

Guitar World

First Thing: Federal agent shoots man in Minneapolis as tensions in city run high

Mayor urges calm as city continues to reel in aftermath of Renee Good’s killing. Plus, how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

The Guardian - UK

Sting ‘pays former Police bandmates £600,000 in royalties’ as lawsuit continues

The Police frontman’s ex-bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland are arguing they are also owed a portion of his income from streaming and download sales of the band’s music

The Independent UK

‘A nasty little song, really rather evil’: how Every Breath You Take tore Sting and the Police apart

Sting and his former bandmates go to the high court over a royalties dispute this week – the latest chapter in the song’s remarkably fractious story

The Guardian - UK

Sting pays Police bandmates nearly £650,000 as royalties row reaches High Court

Guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland first took legal action against the musician last year

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The Guardian - UK

Can’t stand losing out: battle over the Police’s royalties reaches high court

Dispute between Sting and former bandmates relates to whether streaming revenue, estimated at £1.5m, features in ‘arranger’s fees’

MusicRadar

Police royalties case reaches London’s High Court – Sting has now paid $800,000 to Summers and Copeland

But that doesn’t include interest, according to drummer’s and guitarist’s lawyers

Reason

Sting Can Call Himself an Englishman, Court Rules

From Judge Annemarie Carney Axon (N.D. Ala.) yesterday in White v. Google: Plaintiff … asserts state law claims for… The post Sting Can Call Himself an Englishman, Court Rules appeared first on Reason.com.

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Sting is thankful to The Beatles for inspiring songwriters to try

Sting's touring guitarist Dominic Miller has revealed the singer and he have discussed the importance of The Beatles in inspiring generations of songwriters to try and craft tracks.

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Louder

“I was very aggressive. I’d survived this terrible pop thing, so I became mega-paranoid. Hard to work for? Very”: The trials and triumphs of Chris Rea, rock’s most misunderstood star

Think the late Chris Rea was just the guy who wrote Driving Home For Christmas? Think again

Louder

"I interrupted the passage of this chalice to the great one!" The night that The Police's Stewart Copeland "mortally embarrassed" himself in front of a Beatles legend

The moral of the story is that you're never too cool to make a fool of yourself

The Guardian - AU

‘I once Bogarted a joint from a Beatle’: Stewart Copeland of the Police

The drummer and composer on cringeworthy celebrity encounters, why David Bowie is overrated, and being screamed at by Sting in front of 80,000 Italians

The Independent UK

John Cena and the age-old problem with ‘retiring’ from wrestling

COMMENT: The record-breaking WWE champion, the face of pro wrestling’s biggest company for the best part of 20 years, is finally hanging up his boots... right? Greg Evans dives into a retirement that can’t be as simple as it seems

The Independent UK

‘I didn’t want to be afraid’: How the music community rallied together in the wake of the Bataclan attack

As the world marks 10 years since the terrorist attacks in Paris, Roisin O’Connor speaks with some of the musicians who helped reopen the stricken venue, as well as the sister of British victim Nick Alexander, on how music brought a grieving community together

Guitar World

“I hate new basses. I think they are terrible. I don’t want to have one in my hands”: How Sting’s 1953 P-Bass set the tone for this Police classic

Taken from the fourth Police album, Ghost in the Machine, Sting's fretwork is filled with chord inversions, syncopations, and dynamics – all the right stuff for a dynamite bassline

MusicRadar

Legendary producer Trevor Horn makes a surprise live appearance as he joins rising star Sophie Grey for a performance of Buggles hit Video Killed The Radio Star, singing lead vocals and playing bass guitar

Grey has also released a cover of the song

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