 Four of their five studio albums appeared on "Rolling Stone"s list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".The Police were included among both "Rolling Stone"s and VH1's lists of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".In late November 1976, while on tour in Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England with the British progressive rock band Curved Air, the band's American drummer Stewart Copeland met and exchanged phone numbers with an ambitious singer-bassist (and former schoolteacher) called Sting (so nicknamed due to his habit of wearing a black-and-yellow striped sweater mirroring a wasp), who at the time was playing in a jazz-rock fusion band called Last Exit.