ON THIS DAY...

2014: Sting appeared as Jackie White in The Last Ship at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York.
1989: Sting appeared as Macheath in the '3 Penny Opera' at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre in New York.
1983: The Police performed at Wembley Arena in London, England.
SUMMONER'S TALES...
"I was fortunate to have a very rich childhood, rich in symbolism. We lived next to a river and at the end of my street was a giant ship. It was kind of mythic, the scale of (how I was) brought up in this industrial, surreal world. It was a very rich environment for a songwriter."