Sting

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

England

Active from

1951-10-02

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Listeners

2,777,176

Total plays

64,177,323

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known professionally as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter, and bassist for the rock band The Police from 1977 until its break-up in 1986. He began a solo career in 1985, incorporating elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat into his music. Sting has sold more than 100 million records combined as a solo artist and as a member of The Police. <a href="https://www.last.fm/m

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Self‐Regeneration of Stereocenters (SRS)—Applications, Limitations, and Abandonment of a Synthetic Principle

   · 1996 · cited 451x

2. Establishing guidelines to harmonize tumor mutational burden (TMB): in silico assessment of variation in TMB quantification across diagnostic platforms: phase I of the Friends of Cancer Research TMB Harmonization Project

   · 2020 · cited 429x

3. Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging

   · 2023 · cited 390x

4. Genome sequence of <i>Haloarcula marismortui</i>: A halophilic archaeon from the Dead Sea

   · 2004 · cited 260x

5. Detection of all Chlamydophila and Chlamydia spp. of veterinary interest using species-specific real-time PCR assays

   · 2010 · cited 163x

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Quotes

• “Dissent is a legitimate and essential right in any democracy and modern politicians must accept this fact with tolerance. A sense of proportion — and a sense of humour — is a sign of strength, not a sign of weakness.”
• “Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically.”
• “We are a parliamentary democracy; we don’t function by plebiscite. It’s dangerous. I don’t believe in referendums – Hitler and Mussolini organised referendums”
• “I am the first male in the family not having had to shoot against another European”
• “Democracy is under attack. It's under attack in every country in the world. It's in grave danger of being lost unless we defend it.”
• “The alternative to democracy is a nightmare, a prison, of the mind. That alternative is tyranny. All tyranny is based on a lie. The greater the tyranny, the bigger the lie.”

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Key facts

Born

Steve Borden , ( 1959-03-20 ) March 20, 1959 (age 67) , Omaha, Nebraska , U.S.

Spouses

Sue Borden ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1986 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2010 ) ​ Sabine Glenn ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2015 ) ​

Ring name s

Blade Runner Flash , Blade Runner Sting , Steve Borden , Sting

Billed height

6 ft 2 in (188 cm)

Billed weight

250 lb (113 kg)

Billed from

Charlotte, North Carolina , " Every Man's Nightmare ", Venice Beach, California

Trained by

Red Bastien , Rick Bassman

Debut

November 25, 1985

Retired

March 3, 2024

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Wikidata facts

Image

Sting 1988.jpeg

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