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12:57 p.m. • 5-21-13
7 Day Forecast
Today's birthday boy is liable to quote Shakespeare.
Know where Sting (55 today) got his name? He had a striped sweater that made him look like a bee, and someone called him Sting. Kind of a disappointing story, isn't it? Sting is, if not necessarily the king of tasteful pop, definitely one of a select few kings. "Ten Summoner's Tales," the 1993 album that spawned "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" and "Fields of Gold," followed me everywhere I went throughout college (I went to a liberal arts college -- wall-to-wall Sting, Paul Simon, Counting Crows, et al.) Could be a lot worse, I admit. My favorite work of his was with The Police, probably the greatest band of the early '80s. Which of the following was not one of their hits?