Sting watched in horror as a series of terrorist attacks unfolded on Sept. 11, 2001 in the U.S. And then, at the urging of his bandmates, he spent the night fulfilling his previously scheduled concert ...

Sting has been so famous for so long and done so much — the Police, the rain forest, the tantric sex (or was it?), the luxury-car commercial — he has become easy to undervalue as purely a musician.

It’s hard to believe punk rock and Sting were ever uttered in the same sentence. The former Police captain has been a solo purveyor of highbrow, literate pop for so long it seems like lifetimes ago ...