Released 1 June 1985 Length 41:40 Artist Sting Label A&M Records | Recorded 1984 – 1985 Producer Sting & Pete Smith Release date 1 June 1985 | |
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Studio Blue Wave Studio, Saint Philip, Barbados and Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada The Dream of the Blue Turtles
(1985) Bring on the Night
(1986) Genres Rock music, Jazz, Pop rock, New wave, Jazz fusion, Soft rock, Smooth jazz, Art rock, Sophisti-pop Nominations Grammy Award for Album of the Year Similar Sting albums, New wave albums | ||
Sting if you love somebody set them free cd the dream of the blue turtles
The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the first solo album by English musician Sting, released in the United States on 1 June 1985. The album reached number three on the UK Albums Chart. It reached number two on the Billboard 200.
Contents
- Sting if you love somebody set them free cd the dream of the blue turtles
- Sting the dream of the blue turtles full album cassette rip
- Background and release
- Songs
- Track listing
- B sides
- Singles
- Personnel
- Additional musicians
- Production
- Accolades
- References
In the US the album spawned four singles, "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free", "Fortress Around Your Heart", "Russians" and "Love Is the Seventh Wave". The album earned Grammy nominations for Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Recording.
Sting the dream of the blue turtles full album cassette rip
Background and release
The album is named after a dream of Sting's.
Although the single "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" reached No. 3 in the US, it was a relative failure in the UK, where the album's track "Russians" (about Cold War nuclear anxieties, which had peaked in the 1980s) proved more popular.
In the UK the album was kept off No. 1 in the week of its release by Marillion's Misplaced Childhood and Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen occupying the top two places. However, in the US, the album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
The movie Bring on the Night documents some of the recording work that produced this album, as well as the subsequent tour.
Songs
The songs include "Children's Crusade" (paralleling the destruction of the younger generation in World War I to the devastation brought about by heroin addiction in modern-day London); the original uptempo arrangement of The Police song "Shadows in the Rain"; "We Work the Black Seam" (about the UK miners' strike of 1984–85); and "Moon over Bourbon Street", a song inspired by Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire. "Consider Me Gone" references the first quatrain of Shakespeare's Sonnet 35.
Track listing
All tracks written by Sting, except where noted.
B-sides
Singles
Personnel
Additional musicians
Production
Accolades
Grammy Awards
Songs
1If You Love Somebody Set Them Free4:16
2Love Is the Seventh Wave3:32
3Russians3:58