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The single's b-side is a studio recording of the song "Another Day" which would appear the following year in a live version on Sting's live album Bring On the Night.. The US and French 12" singles also contain two remixes of "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free": the "Jellybean Mix" by John "Jellybean" Benitez and the "Torch Mix" by William Orbit of Torch Song.
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" – 4:14 from The Dream of the Blue Turtles "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" (Edit) 4:29 from Mercury Falling "Russians" – 3:57 from The Dream of the Blue Turtles "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" – 4:29 from Ten Summoner's Tales "When We Dance" (Edit) – 4:17 from Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994
The discography of British singer Sting.Born Gordon Sumner in 1951, he was a member of the jazz group Last Exit, who released a cassette album in 1975.With The Police (1977–1986, occasional reunions thereafter), Sting sold over 100 million records and singles.
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 latter of which was based on a theme from the Lieutenant Kijé Suite. [40] Within a year, the album reached Triple Platinum.
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Billboard said that the single is "challenging, complex and rather difficult," with "mysterious poetic imagery" and a melody that is "more recitative than hook." [6] Cash Box said that the song illustrated Sting's "genius as songwriter," although it is "tinged with melancholy" and "less jazzy and more Police-like than Sting's previous US single, "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free."
The video went on to win a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Video in 1994, and was directed by Doug Nichol and produced by Julie Fong. On 11 August 1994, a compact disc of Ten Summoner's Tales became the first item ever securely purchased over the Internet, for $12.48 plus shipping. [ 25 ]
Alongside being used as the album's title, the phrase "mercury falling" appears as the first and last lyrics heard on the album. The lyric was the first written for the album (for "The Hounds of Winter"), and Sting later felt the phrase evoked the mood of the record and its variety of styles: "there are so many styles on this record and it darts around from genre to genre and back again.