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The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the debut solo album by English musician Sting, released on 17 June 1985. The album reached number three on the UK Albums Chart [ 19 ] and number two on the US Billboard 200 .
In 1985 Kirkland (alongside Branford Marsalis) joined the Blue Turtles, the jazz-pop studio-and-touring backing band put together by Sting to perform the latter's post-Police solo work and which can be heard on his first two solo releases The Dream of the Blue Turtles and Bring on the Night. Although the Blue Turtles would be a relatively short ...
Some of the songs in the film appeared on his debut solo album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. The film won the Grammy Award for "Best Music Video, Long Form" at the 1987 Grammy Awards. Much of the film takes place inside the French Château de Courson outside of Paris, where the band met, lived and rehearsed for nine days.
In 1985, he became a member of Sting's first solo band with Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, and Omar Hakim. [8] With Sting he recorded the albums Dream of the Blue Turtles and Bring On the Night, and featured in the documentary of the band's formation and touring, also titled Bring On the Night.
"Russians" is a song by Sting, from his debut solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in June 1985, and released as a single in November. The song is a commentary and plea that criticises the then-dominant Cold War foreign policy and doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD) by the United States and the then-existing Soviet Union .
"Fortress Around Your Heart" is a hit single released from Sting's 1985 debut solo album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. It was released as the album's third single in the UK, and the second single in the US. The song was later included on the U.S. release of the Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994 compilation album.
"The Dream of the Blue Turtles/Demolition Man" (recorded at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, 23 December 1985) – 6:08; Side three "One World (Not Three)/Love Is the Seventh Wave" (recorded at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, 23 December 1985) – 11:10 "Moon over Bourbon Street" (recorded at Rijnhal, Arnhem, 21 December 1985 ...
"We Work the Black Seam" was the first track on the second side of the vinyl and cassette release of The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in June 1985, [26] and the sixth out of 10 tracks overall, between "Shadows in the Rain" and "Consider Me Gone". At 5 minutes and 42 seconds long, it is the album's longest track.