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Sting (musician) 1980s[edit]

His first solo album, 1985'sThe Dream of the Blue Turtles, featured a cast ofjazzmusicians,

includingKenny Kirkland,Darryl Jones,Omar HakimandBranford 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

theLieutenant KijSuite.[14]

Within a year, the album reached TriplePlatinum. This album would garner

Sting aGrammynomination for Album of the Year.

Sting performing in 1985

Also in 1985, he sang the introduction and chorus to "Money for Nothing" byDire 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 theLive AidConcert atWembley 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 theMiles

DavisalbumYou're Under Arrest. He also sang backing vocals onArcadia'ssingle "The Promise", and

on two songs fromPhil Collins' albumNo Jacket Required. He also contributed a version of"Mack the

Knife" to theHal Willner-produced tribute albumLost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill. In September

1985, Sting performed "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" at the1985 MTV Video Music Awardsat

theRadio City Music Hallin New York.[17]

The 1986 filmBring on the Night, directed byMichael Apted,

documented the formation of the band and its first concert in France.

Sting released...Nothing Like the Sunin 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 composerHanns Eisler, and "Englishman In New York" was about the

eccentric writerQuentin Crisp. The album's title is taken from William Shakespeare'sSonnet 130.[18]

Soon thereafter, in February 1988, he releasedNada 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

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recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arrangerGil 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

onFrank Zappa's 1988Broadway the Hard Wayalbum, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement

of "Murder By Numbers", set to the tune "Stolen Moments" by jazz composerOliver Nelson, and

"dedicated" to fundamentalist evangelistJimmy Swaggart. October 1988 saw the release ofIgor

Stravinsky'sThe Soldier's Talewith the London Sinfonietta conducted byKent Nagano. It

featuredVanessa Redgrave, SirIan McKellenand Sting in the role of the soldier.[19]

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