Album: The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Video: From YouTube.
Back to back videos in the top ten are pretty impressive. So many artists appear in consecutive videos on this countdown (Phil Collins at 14/15, Bryan Adams at 38/39, Chicago at 75/76), it makes me wonder if MTV was just being lazy in making the rankings. Calibration, indeed.
Sting certainly had a busy 1985. In addition to launching his solo career with a Grammy nominated album, he starred in two films, performed at Live Aid, and sung the famous "I Want My MTV" line on Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing". He also had another kid that year.
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" has a jazzy and improvisational feel. His first American solo hit, it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song's message is diametrically opposite to the haunting Police classic, "Every Breath You Take". It seems that Sting learned to be less possessive over the years.
As great as "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" album was, the 1987 follow-up "...Nothing Like The Sun" was a worthy successor. I saw Sting in concert during that tour, and I wore the T-shirt for years and years. Not consecutively, though.
The video is colorful, there is some kind of camera trickery going on. The band members are shot in such a way that they appear almost animated, moving in a herky jerky way. Then at random times they become translucent. It looks like the video takes place in a penthouse apartment.
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