"They used to joke, 'Sting, Sting!' and they thought it was hilarious and they kept calling me Sting. And that became my name."In other words, Sting's stage name didn't come about by choice but because his musical peers had given him that nickname, prompting him to make the switch from Gordon Summer.In the 1985 documentary Bring on the Night, when a journalist had referred to him by his birth name, the Every Breath You Take hitmaker responded: "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?"Then, in an interview with Time in 2011, the Grammy winner shared that he doesn't answer by his birth name and that everyone from his friends, fans and his loved ones have grown to accept that. "I was never called.
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