Trivia

Ranked #10 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll.

Members were Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.

They were turned down for a session by the influential BBC Radio One DJ John Peel in their early career, something which Peel claimed to have never regretted as he didn't rate them at all. Other hugely successful bands he turned down included U2 and Dire Straits.

Its 1983 worldwide hit "Every Breath You Take" was covered in 1997 by Sean 'Diddy' Combs (then known as Puff Daddy) in the song "I'll Be Missing You", featuring Faith Evans and 112, for the album "No Way Out" as tribute to Combs' friend Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G., assassinated on March 9, 1997. Evans was Wallace's wife at the time of the murder.