Sting

Most of his later film and TV credits are for his music. Script for The Origin of Tweety that was never used. Sting has also made appearances on television (including guest spots on The Simpsons and Ally McBeal) and the stage. In the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures, Tweety appeared in several episodes as the mentor of Sweetie Pie. Notable roles include:. Tweety appeared in an early 1990s public service announcement, warning parents of the dangers of boiling temperature bath water. He made his film debut with 1979's Quadrophenia. In 2003, a younger version of him premiered on Baby Looney Tunes.

Sting has occasionally ventured into acting. During the 1990s, Tweety also starred in an animated TV series called The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, in which Granny ran a detective agency with the assistance of Tweety, Sylvester and Hector. From the Racing Stripes soundtrack. Tweety has a small part in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, by "accidentally" causing Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) to fall from a pole. From Sacred Love. Most of their cartoons followed a standard formula:. From Slicker Than Your Average (Craig David album). The pairing of Sylvester and Tweety was one of the most notable pairings in animation history.

From Brand New Day. its first Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). From The Very Best of Sting & The Police. The first short to team Tweety and the cat, later named Sylvester, was 1947's Tweetie Pie, which won Warner Bros. From Mercury Falling. Freleng toned Tweety down and cutsied him up, giving him large blue eyes and yellow feathers. From Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls soundtrack. However, Clampett left the studio before going into full production on the short, and Freleng took on the project.

From Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994. Clampett began work on a short that would pit Tweety against a then-unnamed black and white cat lisping created by Friz Freleng in 1945. From Ten Summoner's Tales. Aside from this speech challenge, Tweety's voice (and a fair amount of his attitude) is similar to that of Bugs Bunny. From The Three Musketeers soundtrack. Tweety's most noticeable is that "s" gets changed to "t" or "d"; for example, "pussy cat" comes out as "putty tat" or "puddy tat", and "sweetie pie" comes out as "tweetie pie", although it is doubtful he ever actually called himself by that name on-screen. Non-album single; soundtrack from the film of the same name. Many of Mel Blanc's characters are notable for speech impediments.

From Ten Summoner's Tales. The last of these, Birdy and the Beast, finally bestowed the baby bird with his name. (Albums released after going solo.). Clampett did three more shorts with the "naked genius", as a Jimmy Durante-ish cat once called him in Gruesome Twosome. [2]. In the movie Bugs Bunny Superstar, animator Clampett stated, in a sotto voce "aside" to the audience, that Tweety had been based "on my own naked baby picture". I would want to spend the rest of my life discovering your beautiful country. Tweety was originally naked (pink), jowly, and far more aggressive and saucy, as opposed to the later, more well-known version of him as a less hot-tempered (but still somewhat ornery) yellow canary.

I like the Hindu religion more than anything else at the moment I have become addicted to India .. On the original model sheet, Tweety was named Orson (which was also the name of a bird character from an earlier Clampett cartoon Wacky Blackouts. In a sense I am more of a Hindu.. Bob Clampett created the character that would become Tweety in the 1942 short A Tale of Two Kitties, pitting him against two hungry cats named Babbit and Catstello (based on the famous comedians Abbott and Costello). His words in an interview were:. . In early 2005, Sting proclaimed that he admires Hinduism, wants to spend a lot more time in India and that he loves Indian culture. Despite widespread speculation that he was female, Tweety is and has always been a male character.

His practice consists primarily of a Ashtanga Vinyasa series, though he has experimented with other forms. Today Tweety is considered, along with Taz and Bugs Bunny, among the most popular of the Looney Tunes characters, especially (because of his "cute" appearance and personality) among girls and young women. Soon after, Sting began a regular yoga practice. Tweety's popularity, like that of The Tasmanian Devil, actually grew in the years following the dissolution of the Looney Tunes cartoons. However, around 1990 he met Danny Paradise who introduced him to yoga. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons. To keep physically fit, for years Sting ran (5 miles a day) and did aerobics. Tweety (also known as Tweety Pie or Tweety Bird) is a fictional character in the Warner Bros.

Although Sting was long reputed to be a devotee of tantric sex, he has more recently claimed that it was an interview prank, or a dinner-party joke that took on a life of its own. Hawaiian Aye Aye. In an interview given by Sting, he also referred to what he believed was the natural occurrence of lithium in the brain when one views a sunset, but this may have been a confusion with endorphins. The Jet Cage. According to some reports, he did this because he wanted to help people who really have this disease. The Last Hungry Cat. He has written a song entitled "Lithium Sunset" which appears to refer to lithium carbonate, a treatment for the disorder. Rebel Without Claws.

It is unclear whether he was serious or not when he referred to himself as manic-depressive. Trip For Tat. [1] Although Sting also owns properties in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, and Malibu, California, he currently calls Tuscany his home. Hyde And Go Tweet. Sting's lookalike son Joseph is following in his father's musical footsteps and is a member of the band, Fiction Plane. Tweet Dreams. Sting and Trudie have four children: Bridget Michaela (aka "Mickey", born 1984), Jake (born 1985), Eliot Paulina ("Coco," born 1990), and Giacomo Luke (born 1995). Tweet And Lovely.

In 1982 - shortly after the birth of his second child - Sting separated from Tomelty and began living with actress (and later film producer) Trudie Styler, but the two did not marry until 1992. Trick Or Tweet. The couple had two children, Joseph (born 1976), and Fuchsia Katherine (born 1982), before they divorced in 1984. A Bird In A Bonnet. Sting married actress Frances Tomelty, a Catholic from Northern Ireland, on May 1, 1976. A Pizza Tweety Pie. Also in 2004, his song "You Will Be My Ain True Love" for the Cold Mountain soundtrack was an Oscar nominee, and was performed at the awards by Alison Krauss, with Sting accompanying on a hurdy-gurdy. Greedy For Tweety.

Sting embarked on a Sacred Love tour in 2004 with performances by Annie Lennox. Birds Anonymous. His autobiography Broken Music was published in October. Tweety And The Beanstalk. Blige and sitar maestro Anoushka Shankar. Tweet Zoo. 2003 also saw the release of Sacred Love, an original studio album with racier beats and experiments collaborating with hip-hop artist Mary J. Tugboat Granny.

During that performance Sting performed a duet with Gwen Stefani of "Message in a Bottle". Tree Cornered Tweety. Sting kicked off 2003 with a performance during the Super Bowl's half time show. Tweet And Sour. In the summer, Sumner was awarded the "CBE" - the Commander of the British Empire. Red Riding Hoodwinked. Late in the year, it was announced that The Police would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2003. Tweety's Circus.

In June, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Sandy Claws. He won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for his second Academy Award for his song "Until..." from the film Kate & Leopold. Satan's Waitin. 2002 was a year of awards for Sting. Muzzle Tough. All This Time featured jazzy reworkings of Sting favorites such as "Roxanne" and "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". Dog Pounded.

His live album, All This Time, recorded on a moonlit night in Tuscany, was released in November but did not generate healthy sales. Catty Cornered. Later, Sting performed "Fragile" for the fundraiser America: A Tribute to Heroes. A Street Cat Named Sylvester. On September 11, he recorded a new live album in Italy, but the Internet simulcast was canceled after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. Tom Tom Tomcat. His song "After The Rain Has Fallen" made it into the Top 40. Fowl Weather.

In February 2001, he added another Grammy to his collection. Snow Business. For his performance, the Arab-American Institute Foundation gave him the Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Award. Bird in Guilty Cage. At the awards ceremony, he performed "Desert Rose" with Cheb Mami. Ain't She Tweet. In 2000, he won Grammy Awards for Brand New Day and the song of the same name. Gift Wrapped.

The album went Triple Platinum by January 2001. Tweet, Tweet Tweety. Sting made a (partial) comeback with the September 1999 album Brand New Day, including the Top 40 hits "Brand New Day" and "Desert Rose" (Top 10). Tweety's SOS. (Sting was also featured on Toby Keith's country cover-version of "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying", on Keith's 1997 Dream Walkin' album.) In 1998, he appeared in the Guy Ritchie film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Room and Bird. Yet, he reached the Top 40 with two singles the same year with "You Still Touch Me" (June) and "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" (December). Puddy Tat Twouble.

Sting's 1996 album, Mercury Falling debuted strongly, but dropped quickly on the charts. Canary Row. Finally in November, he released a greatest hits compilation called Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting, which was eventually certified Double Platinum. All A Bir-r-r-d. The Berklee College of Music gave him his second honorary doctorate of music degree in May. Home Tweet Home. In February, he won two more Grammy Awards and was nominated for three more. Bad Ol' Putty Tat.

charts. I Taw A Putty Tat. charts for five weeks and went Platinum; it is to date Sting's only song from his post-Police career to top the U.S. Tweetie Pie. The song stayed at the top of the U.S. A Gruesome Twosome. Together with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, they performed the chart-topping song "All For Love" from the film The Three Musketeers. Birdy and the Beast.

Sting reached a pinnacle of success in 1994. A Tale of Two Kitties. In May 1993, he released a remix of the classic Police song from the Ghost In The Machine album, "Demolition Man" for the Demolition Man film, starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock and Benjamin Bratt. Of course, each of his tricks fail, either due to their flaws or, more often than not, because Tweety steers the enemy cat towards Hector the Bulldog, an indignant Granny (voiced by Bea Benaderet and later June Foray), or other device (such as off the ledge of a tall building or steering him into an oncoming train). The hit single "Fields of Gold" has since become a "standard", and very well known via versions by Eva Cassidy and Verity Keays. Sylvester spending the entire film using progressively more elaborate schemes or devices to capture his meal. In 1993, he released the album Ten Summoner's Tales, which went Triple Platinum in just over a year. Tweety says his signature lines ("I tawt I taw a puddy tat!" and "I did, I did taw a puddy tat!").

The following year, he married Trudie Styler and was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in music from Northumbria University. The hungry "puddy tat" wanting to eat the bird, some major obstacle stands in his way – usually Granny or her bulldog Hector (or, more often than not, numerous bulldogs). The album eventually went Platinum. Sting's 1991 album The Soul Cages was dedicated to his recently deceased father and included the top 10 song "All this Time" and the Grammy winning "Soul Cages". His most high-profile contribution to the human rights cause came in 1988, when he joined a team of major musicians and rising stars — including Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen — assembled under the banner of Amnesty International for the 6-week world Human Rights Now! Tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

His support for these causes continues to this day. With long-time girlfriend Trudie Styler and Raoni Metuktire, a Kayapó Indian leader in Brazil, he founded the Rainforest Foundation to help save the rainforests. Throughout the 1980s, Sting strongly supported environmentalism and humanitarian movements, such as Amnesty International. Soon thereafter, in February of 1988, he released Nada Como el Sol — a selection of five songs from Nothing Like the Sun sung (by Sting himself) in Spanish and Portuguese.

It eventually went Double Platinum and was recognized as one of the most important rock & roll albums of the 1980s. Sting released Nothing Like the Sun (1987), including the hit songs "We'll Be Together" and "Be Still My Beating Heart", dedicated to his recently deceased mother. He also sang the introduction and chorus to "Money for Nothing", a groundbreaking song by Dire Straits. Within a year, it reached Triple Platinum.

It included the hit single "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". 1985's The Dream of the Blue Turtles, featuring a star-studded cast of jazz musicians, was Sting's first solo album. The song was a re-interpretation of a song from the 1920s musical Mr Cinders by Vivian Ellis, and was a surprise top twenty hit. In 1982 he released a solo single, "Spread A Little Happiness" from the Dennis Potter television play Brimstone and Treacle.

Sting's participation in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball was the beginning of his growing involvement in raising money and consciousness for political and social causes. His performances were prominently featured in the album and movie of the show and drew major critical attention for Sting. The band included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins and Bob Geldof all of whom (except Beck) later worked together on "Live Aid". He perfomed solo versions of "Roxanne" and "Message in a Bottle" He also led an all-star band (dubbed "The Secret Police") on his own arrangement of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released".

In September 1981, Sting made his first-ever solo live performance performing on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Other Ball at the invitation of producer Martin Lewis. To help promote a greatest hits album that year they also made a re-recording of a new arrangement of one of their hits "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" as a special bonus track to be included on the album. Their performances were just for the benefit shows and were not part of an intended permanent reunion. The Police performed together at some of the shows on the 1986 Amnesty International A Conspiracy of Hope Tour alongside U2 and other artists.

Their last album, Synchronicity which included one of their most successful songs, Every Breath You Take, was released in 1983. Although they jumped on the punk bandwagon early in their career, they soon abandoned that sound in favor of reggae-tinged rock and minimalist pop. The group had several chart topping albums and won six Grammy Awards in the early 1980s. In 1977, Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers formed the rock/pop band The Police in London.

He once performed wearing a black and yellow jersey with hooped stripes that fellow band member Gordon Solomon had noted made him look like a bumblebee, thus he became "Sting." He uses Sting almost exclusively, except on official documents. He has stated that he gained his nickname while with the Jazzmen. He played with local jazz bands such as the Phoenix Jazzmen and Last Exit. His first music gigs were wherever he could get a job.

Before playing music professionally, Sumner worked as a ditch digger and a music teacher at a Catholic primary school. Both Audrey and Ernest Sumner died of cancer, but Sting did not (or could not) attend either funeral. Philip owns a pub in Newcastle, Angela works for British Airways, and Anita is an artist. He is the oldest of four children and has a brother, Philip, and two sisters, Angela and Anita.

From 1971 to 1974, he attended Northern Counties Teacher Training College. He attended St Cuthbert's grammar School, in Newcastle upon Tyne, and then the University of Warwick, but did not graduate. From an early age, Sumner knew that he wanted to be a musician. Ernest was a milkman, and raised his children as Roman Catholics.

Sumner was born in Wallsend, near Newcastle upon Tyne, in North-East England to Audrey (a Protestant) and Ernest Sumner (a Catholic via his own mother, Agnes White, whose father was an Irish stevedore). . Prior to a distinguished solo career, he was the lead singer, principal composer and bassist of the 1970s/1980s rock band The Police. Gordon Matthew Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951), usually known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician from Newcastle upon Tyne.

JD, Eddie's father and owner of a bar, in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). The voice of Zarm on Captain Planet and the Planeteers, a 1990s television show. Finney, a nightclub owner in Stormy Monday (1988). An "heroic officer" in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988).

Baron Frankenstein in The Bride (1985). Mick, a black-marketeer in Plenty (1985). Feyd-Rautha in the movie Dune (1984). Martin Taylor, a drifter in Brimstone and Treacle (1982).

Ace The Face, the King of The Mods, aka The Bell Boy in the movie adaptation of The Who album Quadrophenia (1979). 2005 "Taking the Inside Rail" #? US, #? UK. 2004 "Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)" #60 UK. Blidge)" #60 UK.

Mary J. 2003 "Whenever I Say Your Name (ft. 2003 "Send Your Love" #30 UK. Sting) #2 UK.

2003 "Rise & Fall" (Craig David feat. 2000 "After the Rain Has Fallen" #31 UK. Cheb Mami) #15 UK, #17 US. 2000 "Desert Rose" (feat.

1999 "Brand New Day" #13 UK, #100 US. 1997 "Roxanne '97" (remix) (with The Police) #17 UK, #59 US. 1996 "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" #94 US. 1996 "I Was Brought to My Senses" #31 UK.

1996 "You Still Touch Me" #27 UK, #60 US. 1996 "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" #15 UK, #86 US. Sting) #36 UK. 1996 "Spirits in the Material World" (Pato Banton feat.

Pato Banton) #15 UK. 1995 "This Cowboy Song" (feat. 1994 "When We Dance" #9 UK, #38 US. 1994 "Nothing 'Bout Me" #32 UK.

1994 "All for Love" (with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart) #2 UK, #1 US. 1993 "Demolition Man" #21 UK. 1993 "Fields of Gold" #16 UK, #23 US. 1993 "Seven Days" #25 UK.

1993 "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" #14 UK, #17 US. 1992 "It's Probably Me" (with Eric Clapton) #30 UK. 2003 Sacred Love #3 UK, #3 US, US Sales: 1,000,000. 2001 All This Time (live) #3 UK, #32 US, US Sales: 500,000.

1999 At the Movies (Japanese release). 1999 Brand New Day #5 UK, #9 US, US Sales: 3,000,000. 1997 The Very Best of Sting & The Police #1 UK, #46 US (both positions for the 2002 re-issue). 1996 Mercury Falling #4 UK, #5 US, US Sales: 1,000,000.

1994 Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 #2 UK, #7 US, US Sales: 2,000,000. 1993 Ten Summoner's Tales #2 UK, #2 US, US Sales: 3,000,000. 1991 Soul Cages #1 UK, #2 US, US Sales: 1,000,000. 1988 Nada Como el Sol.

1987 Nothing Like the Sun #1 UK, #9 US, US Sales: 2,000,000. 1986 Bring On the Night #16 UK. 1985 The Dream of the Blue Turtles #3 UK, #2 US, US Sales: 3,000,000. Sting, who had a small acting career, had a small part in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back as an AT-AT Commander.

Sting's song "Desert Rose" is also used as XM Satellite Radio's technical difficulties music. Sting was nominated for Academy Award for his song "You Will Be My Ain True Love" from the movie "Cold Mountain" performed by Alison Krauss. Sting famously claimed to have had tantric sex with his wife for 24 hours. Was at one time close to becoming Gil Farrington in a motion picture of the same name, until Sir Ridley Scott terminated the project.

[5]. A Colombian tree frog was named for him in appreciation of his environmental activities: Hyla stingi. The song is still widely associated with Jaguar. Sting's song "Desert Rose" was used in many Jaguar commercials because of the fact that he drove a Jaguar during Desert Rose's music video.

He appeared as himself in an episode of The Simpsons, taking part in the charity song for a boy who supposedly fell down a well, "We're Sending Our Love Down The Well". Sting's fondness for Prokofiev manifested itself subsequently when he served as narrator for Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy [4] - one of the many versions of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" that have been recorded by celebrities. The song "Russians" from The Dream of the Blue Turtles utilized a theme by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. Sting also made a cameo appearance in the movie, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen [3].

Sting and Knopfler remained friends despite this difference between their two music publishers and the fact that half of the writer's share of Knopfler's biggest hit goes to Sting for a contribution of just six musical notes out of the entire song. Even though the prologue only occupies a few seconds at the start of the recording - Sting's music publisher Virgin Music insisted that Sting be credited (and paid) as though he had written half of the entire song. Sting came up with the musical motif to use for the words - and it was (probably consciously) musically identical to the melody line in his own Police song "Don't Stand So Close To Me" from the album Zenyatta Mondatta. The prologue to the Dire Straits' recording "Money for Nothing" that features Sting singing the words "I want my MTV" was at the invitation of Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler.

Sting was also the inspiration for the comic book character John Constantine (from Hellblazer). In his Live8 performance he changed the lyrics to his song 'Every Breath You Take' from "I'll be watching you” to "we'll be watching you" — meant for the men of the G8.