Sting
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, activist, and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.
Sting has sold a combined total of more than 100 million records as a solo artist and as a member of the Police. He has received three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2002; a Golden Globe; an Emmy; and four Academy Award nominations. As a solo musician and as a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. Sting has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors; a CBE from Queen Elizabeth II for services to music; Kennedy Center Honors; and the Polar Music Prize. In May 2023, he was made an Ivor Novello Fellow.
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, on 2 October 1951, the eldest of four children of Audrey (née Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and former fitter at an engineering works. He grew up near Wallsend's shipyards, which made an impression on him. As a child, he was inspired by the Queen Mother waving at him from a Rolls-Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life. He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was "obsessed" with an old Spanish guitar left by an emigrating friend of his father.
Sting attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. He visited nightclubs such as Club A'Gogo to see Cream and Manfred Mann, who influenced his music. He learned to sing and play simultaneously by listening to records at 78 rpm. After leaving school in 1969, he enrolled at the University of Warwick in Coventry, but left after a term. After working as a bus conductor, building labourer, and tax officer, he attended the Northern Counties College of Education (now Northumbria University) from 1971 to 1974 and qualified as a teacher.[20] He taught at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years.
Sting performed jazz in the evenings, at weekends, and during breaks from college and teaching, playing with the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band and Last Exit. He gained his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes with the Phoenix Jazzmen. Bandleader Gordon Solomon thought he looked like a bee (or according to Sting himself, "they thought I looked like a wasp"), which prompted the name "Sting". In the 1985 documentary Bring On the Night a journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?" In 2011, he told Time "I was never called Gordon. You could shout 'Gordon' in the street and I would just move out of your way". Despite this, he chose not to legally change his name to "Sting". ...
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The Simpsons
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Only Murders in the Building
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Bambi
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NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
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MTV Video Music Awards
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Biggest Band Break Ups and Make Ups
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The Beatles Revolution
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Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People
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The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
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Bee Movie
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The Larry Sanders Show
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Finding Your Roots
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Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
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TOTP2
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The Oscars
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Ally McBeal
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Royal Opera House: Message in a Bottle
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Zarm (voice)
Star Academy
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An Audience with Elton John
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Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
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Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
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Viña del Mar International Song Festival
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Viña del Mar International Song Festival
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The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
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Dune
Feyd Rautha
Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today
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Le Grand Concert Unis pour le Liban
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Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
Horsa
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
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Behind the Music
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2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
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Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
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The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
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Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred Love
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The Old Grey Whistle Test
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Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône
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The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra
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MTV Unplugged
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Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
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Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
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The Queen's Birthday Party
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George Michael: A Different Story
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Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film
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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
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Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Machiavelli
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
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Rove
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The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
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Sting: The Brand New Day Tour: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre
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America | A Tribute to Heroes
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Victoires de la musique
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The Michael J. Fox Show
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They All Came Out to Montreux
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Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police
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Zoolander 2
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Chris Botti & Friends - Night Sessions: Live in Concert
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The Filth and the Fury
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CMT Crossroads
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GIMS: On the Record
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Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden
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The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition
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Rockpalast
'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid Video
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Artemis '81
Helith
Brüno
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Legends
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Heroic Officer
TFI Friday
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Under the Volcano
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Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Horsa
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
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U2 & The Police: A Conspiracy of Hope
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The Police - Greatest Video Hits
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When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain
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Jaco
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All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
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The Mighty
The Balladeer
Iain Goes Inside the Last Ship
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2012: Time for Change
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Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
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Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
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Christmas@Home 2022 Daniel Hope, Sting and Guests
WHAM!
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Live Aid
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Sting: The Journey & The Labyrinth: The Music of John Dowland
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Little Britain USA
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Sonic Sea
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Chris Botti in Boston
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Life's Too Short
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Stormy Monday
Finney
The Dark Side of The Sun
Narrator
The Police: Synchronicity Concert
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Human Rights Now 25th Anniversary
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The Bride
Frankenstein
Quadrophenia
Ace Face
Live 8
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Billy Joel: And So It Goes
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The Secret Policeman's Ball
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Police in Montserrat
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Brimstone & Treacle
Martin Taylor
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
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Sting: A Winter's Night...Live From Durham Cathedral
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Plenty
Mick
Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.
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Peter Gabriel, Sting, & Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Now!
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The Grotesque
Fledge
Radio On
Just Like Eddie
The Police: Around The World
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Under the Sun
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Al TV
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The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
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The Kenny Everett Video Show
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Billy Idol
The Police: Ghost in the Machine Tour - Live at Gateshead
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Attenborough at 90
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De TV Show
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Radioman
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Sting au Panthéon (50 ans de FIP)
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Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann
Robert Schumann
Sting: Live at the Olympia Paris
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MADtv
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The Very Best of Sting & The Police
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Sting: Live In Berlin
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Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 3
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Sting: When the Last Ship Sails (Live at the Public Theater)
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The Book of Solutions
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The Police: Better Than Therapy
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Tina Turner : Celebrate!
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Sting and the Police at the BBC
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Reel Stories
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Live Aid
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Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
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Julia and Julia
Daniel Hosler
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
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Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
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Live Aid - 40 år
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Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari
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Sting – Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting
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Sting Unplugged
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Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story
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MTV Rockumentary
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Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward
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VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
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Herb Alpert Is...
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Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime Création
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Sting au Bataclan
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The Police Rock in Rio - Live Madrid
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Chris Botti Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests
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Sting - Fields Of Japan 1994
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The Best of Max Headroom
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Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road
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Sting & Shaggy au Château d'Hérouville
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If on a Winter's Night ... Live from Durham Cathedral
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Sting - Bring on the Night
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Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
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Branford Marsalis: Steep
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Sting - Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2016
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Sting Live At Irving Plaza
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Catherine et Liliane
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Sting : My Songs au château de Chambord
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20 Feet from Stardom
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PoliWood
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Sting: All this Time
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Sting and Gil Evans: Strange Fruit
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The Soul Cages Concert
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The Sweatbox
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Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
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Take That Away!
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The Police: Live in Essen - Rockpalast 1980
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I Want My MTV
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STING: The Journey & The Labyrinth
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The Police: Certifiable
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The Police – Live Ghost In The Machine
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Music for Montserrat
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Acceleration Punk
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Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
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Dire Straits at Live Aid
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The Police - Outlandos To Synchronicities
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Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)
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Urgh! A Music War
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Punk and Its Aftershocks
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An Intimate Evening with Mary J. Blige - Live from the House of Blues
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Still Bill
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Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
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The Police - Every Breath You Take
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Being Mick
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Pavarotti & Friends
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CMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince Gill
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The Police - Live in Rio
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Resident Alien
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Sting: Unplugged
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John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
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Space Songs: Through the Distance
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Eric Clapton: Standing at the Crossroads
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The Police: Live At Rockpalast
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FireAid Benefit Concert
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Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & Roll
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Gurrumul
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Sting: 57th and 9th - The Interviews
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Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
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Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos Aires
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Hope for Haiti Now
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The Police - Live '79 at Hatfield Polytechnic
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Sting's 40th Birthday Celebration: Live from the Hollywood Bowl
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Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
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Pavarotti The Duets
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The Police: Live In Concert Tokyo
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Sting - 25 Years
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Sting: Beyond The Police
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Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
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Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia
Interviewee
Sting Festival de Viña del Mar
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Bruce Springsteen - 32nd Annual of Kennedy Center Honors
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Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
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One World, One Voice
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The Police - Live In Oakland
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Sting: A Free Man
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Sting - Grenzgänger und Freigeist
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Destination Dune
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Sting - Live at iHeartRadio
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Sting at the Pantheon in Paris 50 Years of FIP Radio
Freedom Beat
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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Rock'n'roll... Of Corse!
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In Thanks We Trust
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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The Graham Norton Show
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Saturday Night Live
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Saturday Night Live
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Saturday Night Live
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Markus Lanz
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Sting: Radio 2 in the Park
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The One Show
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Leute heute
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CBS News Sunday Morning
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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Late Night with David Letterman
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Champs-Elysées
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Champs-Elysées
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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Vivement dimanche
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Sacrée Soirée
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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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Le monde est à vous
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Inas Nacht
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GMTV
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Parkinson
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Kulturplatz
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An Audience with...
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On Air with Ryan Seacrest
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American Music Awards
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Salut les Terriens !
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The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
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Lo + plus
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Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
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Today
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Miley's New Year's Eve Party
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The Max Headroom Show
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Bio’s Bahnhof
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Lubach
TV total
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The Grammys
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