Album: The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Video: From YouTube.
Another debut on the countdown, this time from Sting. Fascinatingly, the top ten features six artists who make their first appearance in the countdown in the top ten. We're dealing with the real heavy hitters now.
Sting left an extremely successful band, the Police, in order to launch an equally fruitful solo career in 1985. "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" is his first solo album, and it is superbly strong - every single track is solid.
"Fortress Around Your Heart" is a deep and thought provoking song, which would also fit nicely in a book of classic poetry. Great lyrics, using the imagery of war to illustrate the parallels between love and battle. The song peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The video is shot on a stark, bare set which looks rather like a fortress, featuring a raised stage with a staircase. Sting in a black sleeveless shirt is practically the only human to be seen, save for cameramen. It's pretty much just really tight shots of him playing guitar and staring into the camera. He makes it look pretty bad ass.
The tight facial shots prompted my wife to comment on Sting's beauty and bone structure. I don't know about that, but it is hard to believe that this man started out as Gordon Sumner, English teacher. He was a young teacher, the subject of schoolgirl fantasy.
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