Born on the 2nd of October 1951 Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner is the son of a milkman. In his young years Gordon helped his father with the milk deliveries. After leaving school in 1969, spending one term at the University of Warwick, working as a bus conductor, building labourer and tax officer, he went and got a teaching qualification. He earned a nickname when a fellow musician thought he “looked like a wasp” in his yellow-and-black striped sweater. “Sting” was working as a schoolteacher when his band “The Police” hit the big time.