ON THIS DAY...

2023: Sting performed at the Rockhal in Esch, Luxembourg. ▶
2021: Sting performed at the Game Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
2019: Sting & Trudie hosted the Rainforest Benefit concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Performers included Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Shaggy, Debbie Harry, The Eurythmics, Ricky Martin and Bob Geldof. ▶
2017: Sting performed at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, USA. ▶
2014: Sting appeared as Jackie White in The Last Ship at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York.
2012: Sting performed at Araneta Coliseum in Manila, the Philippines. ▶
2011: Sting performed at Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, Canada. ▶
2009: Sting performed at St John The Divine Cathedral in New York. ▶
2004: Sting performed at the Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark. ▶ Earlier in the day he held a book signing in the city.
2001: Sting performed at World Arena in Colorado Springs, USA. ▶
1999: Sting performed at the Palace Theatre in Louisville, USA. ▶
1997: Whilst in New York, Sting & Trudie attended a fundraising event in aid of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts.
1996: Sting performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England.
1989: Sting appeared as Macheath in the '3 Penny Opera' at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre in New York.
1983: The Police performed at the Playhouse Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. ▶
1978: The Police performed at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland.
SUMMONER'S TALES...
"I often feel like performing is some sort of shamanism. Performing is frenzied. Sexual. It frees people for a while. I induce that by going into a trance, really, which is why I like to be almost unconscious. I don't want to meet someone's eye in the audience, because that brings you back to consciousness. And I like to be out, to appear like a man on the edge, like a man who has pushed himself too far... that is when the audience really gets sucked in."