Sting
If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
Love Is the Seventh Wave
Russians - Sting, Prokofiev, Sergei
Consider Me Gone
Moon Over Bourbon Street
Fortress Around Your Heart
From one spin of The Dream of the Blue Turtles, Sting s first solo release, it s obvious that for him there would be life beyond the Police. Teamed with a band of top jazz players, he presents his musical visions that had.
more » gone unrealized while he was still constrained by his former ensemble. In style and subject matter, it s a decidedly diverse collection of songs and the playing is excellent throughout. The love songs are mostly focused on endings or escapes, and it s quite possible to interpret much of the imagery in reference to the bitter breakup of the Police. Sting s concern with history and politics is in evidence: he makes a father s plea for sanity and restraint in the nuclear age, takes up for the U.K. s much-abused coal miners, and relates the savage stupidity of World War I t