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Ten
Summoner's Tales
Sting
(1993) |
You'll
remember me
when
the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
Fields of Gold (1993)
Born in the former ship-building town of Wallsend in 1951
Sting went on to become a prolific singer-songwriter, firstly
for The Police and from 1985 as a solo artist.
Ten Summoner's Tales, one of his best solo albums,
was released in 1993. Recorded at his country home Lake House
in Wiltshire it included the song Fields of Gold, influenced
by the surrounding barley fields in the summer.
In 2014 his first musical The Last Ship premiered in
the US telling the story of Wallsend, the town where he was
born, and the end of its ship-building traditions.
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| Northumberland |
Northumberland
lies in north-eastern England and borders Scotland to the north. In
1974 the new county of Tyne and Wear
was formed from parts of Northumberland and Durham. Tyne and Wear
has since been broken up into smaller authorities.
Towns
include the county seat of Morpeth.
Holy
Island (Lindisfarne) and the Farne
Islands lie off its coastline.
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| Anglo-Saxons
and Danes |
Formed
part of the kingdom of Northumbria
which itself had been formed from the smaller kingdoms of Bernicia
and Deira. Deira reached from the Humber
in the south to the river Tees in the north. North of the Tees reaching
as far as the Forth of Firth lay the kingdom of Bernicia of which
Bamburgh was the capital.
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| Composers
and Musicians |
The
singer-songwriter Sting
was born as Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner in Wallsend in 1951. After
training and working as a teacher he moved to London forming the band
The
Police in 1977 (with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers).
The group went onto global success becoming one of the best-selling
groups in music history. In 1984 the group disbanded and Sting went
solo broadening his music to other genres including the musical The
Last Ship about Wallsend, the shipbuilding town of his
birth.
Sting
Sting
Sting:
Fields
of Gold (Sumner)
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| Famous
People |
It was from Longstone
Lighthouse on the Farne Islands that
Grace
Darling rowed with her father through
a storm to rescue nine men from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838.
She died in 1842 and was buried at Bamburgh.
Grace
Darling
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| Monarchs |
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Scottish House of Atholl |
House
of Atholl |
The Scottish King Malcolm
III was killed with his eldest son in battle near Alnwick
Castle during an invasion of England in 1093. His body was
taken back to Scotland and buried at Dunfermline
Abbey in Fife.
It was during a siege of Alnwick
Castle in 1174 that another Scottish King, William
the Lion, was captured by the English.
He was released later the same year.
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| Nobel
Prize Winners |
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Physics |
The
physicist Peter
Higgs was born in Newcastle in 1929. In 2013 he was awarded
the Nobel
Prize for Physics together with Francois Englert for their
research into the origin of mass subatomic particles.
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| Prime
Ministers |
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Prime Ministers |
Earl
Grey, Prime Minister from 1830-34, was born as Charles Grey in
the hamlet of Fallodon in 1764. He died in 1845 at Howick
Hall near Alnwick, the ancestral home of his family, and is buried
in the church in the grounds.
Earl
Grey
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