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    Sting (Musician) : The Dream of The Blue Turtles

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    Sting's 1985 solo debut album The Dream of the Blue Turtles featured jazz musicians and hit singles like "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" and "Russians". The album was a commercial success, reaching Triple Platinum status. That same year, Sting also sang on tracks by Dire Straits and Miles Davis. In 1987, Sting released ...Nothing Like the Sun which included hits like "Englishman in New York" and went Double Platinum. Sting was also featured on albums by other artists throughout the 1980s.

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    Sting's 1985 solo debut album The Dream of the Blue Turtles featured jazz musicians and hit singles like "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" and "Russians". The album was a commercial success, reaching Triple Platinum status. That same year, Sting also sang on tracks by Dire Straits and Miles Davis. In 1987, Sting released ...Nothing Like the Sun which included hits like "Englishman in New York" and went Double Platinum. Sting was also featured on albums by other artists throughout the 1980s.

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    Sting's 1985 solo debut album The Dream of the Blue Turtles featured jazz musicians and hit singles like "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" and "Russians". The album was a commercial success, reaching Triple Platinum status. That same year, Sting also sang on tracks by Dire Straits and Miles Davis. In 1987, Sting released ...Nothing Like the Sun which included hits like "Englishman in New York" and went Double Platinum. Sting was also featured on albums by other artists throughout the 1980s.

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    Sting (Musician) : The Dream of The Blue Turtles

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    Sting (musician) 1980s[edit]

    His first solo album, 1985's The Dream of the Blue Turtles, featured a cast of jazz musicians, including Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim and Branford Marsalis. It included the hit singles "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free", (backed with the non-LP song "Another Day") "Fortress Around Your Heart", "Love Is the Seventh Wave", and "Russians", the last of which was based on a theme from the Lieutenant Kij Suite.[14] Within a year, the album reached Triple Platinum. This album would garner Sting a Grammynomination for Album of the Year.

    Sting performing in 1985

    Also in 1985, he sang the introduction and chorus to "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. Sting was reportedly embarrassed when his publishing company insisted on a co-writing credit (and royalties)' since his "I Want My MTV" line was sung to exactly the same notes as the chorus of "Don't Stand So Close to Me". He performed this song with Dire Straits at the Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium.[15]Prior to the Live Aid concert, in November 1984 Sting performed "Do They Know It's Christmas?" with Band Aid for the relief of poverty in Africa.[16] In 1985 Sting provided a short guest vocal performance on the Miles Davis album You're Under Arrest. He also sang backing vocals on Arcadia's single "The Promise", and on two songs from Phil Collins' album No Jacket Required. He also contributed a version of "Mack the Knife" to the Hal Willner-produced tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill. In September 1985, Sting performed "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York.[17]The 1986 film Bring on the Night, directed by Michael Apted, documented the formation of the band and its first concert in France. Sting released ...Nothing Like the Sun in 1987, including the hit songs "We'll Be Together", "Fragile", "Englishman in New York", and "Be Still My Beating Heart", dedicated to his mother, who had recently died. It eventually went Double Platinum. The song "The Secret Marriage" from this album was adapted from a melody by German composer Hanns Eisler, and "Englishman In New York" was about the eccentric writer Quentin Crisp. The album's title is taken from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130.[18] Soon thereafter, in February 1988, he released Nada como el sol, a selection of five songs from Sun sung (by Sting himself) in Spanish and Portuguese. He was also involved in two other

    recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs (the CD was not released in the U.S.), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of "Murder By Numbers", set to the tune "Stolen Moments" by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and "dedicated" to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. October 1988 saw the release of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Kent Nagano. It featured Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Ian McKellen and Sting in the role of the soldier.[19]

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