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The album was influenced by two events in Sting's life: first, the death in late 1986 of his mother, which contributed to the sombre tone of several songs; and second, his participation in the Conspiracy of Hope Tour on behalf of Amnesty International, which brought Sting to parts of Latin America that had been ravaged by civil wars, and introduced him to victims of government oppression.
The song appears in the 1995 Oscar-nominated documentary The Living Sea. [citation needed] It was the first song performed in Sting's All This Time concert, recorded on the evening of the September 11 attacks in 2001. Sting also performed the song with cellist Yo Yo Ma during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City ...
"All This Time" is a song by English musician Sting. It was released as the first single from his third studio album, The Soul Cages (1991), on 31 December 1990 by A&M Records . The song was a chart success, especially in North America, reaching No. 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 , topping the Billboard Album Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks ...
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Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994 is the first greatest hits album by English musician Sting. Released in 1994, it features hit singles from his first four studio albums The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985), ...Nothing Like the Sun (1987), The Soul Cages (1991), and Ten Summoner's Tales (1993), plus two new tracks.
Sting stated that "Seven Days" was the first song he wrote in quintuple meter and that it "begged to be played with in a frivolous way." [3] He also reckoned that the song's time signature would challenge his backing band "by asking them to do things that aren't natural." [2] The song was recorded in (5 8) time at a tempo of 184 beats per ...
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.
The song, in the key of A major, is played in swing time. According to Sting, the song was written on the piano, and contains a flattened fifth in the song's intro, [a] which he says was banned in the churches due to its dissonant sound: It starts off with a flattened fifth. A flat five is an interesting chord because it was banned by the church.