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The Dream of the Blue Turtles
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The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Studio album by Sting
Released	1 June 1985
Recorded	1984 – March 1985
Studio	Blue Wave Studio, Saint Philip, Barbados and Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada
Genre	
Pop rock[1]jazz fusionart rocknew wave
Length	41:40
Label	A&M
Producer	Sting and Pete Smith
Sting chronology
The Dream of the Blue Turtles
(1985)	Bring on the Night
(1986)
Singles from The Dream of the Blue Turtles
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free"
Released: 9 July 1985
"Love Is the Seventh Wave"
Released: 1 August 1985
"Fortress Around Your Heart"
Released: 1 October 1985
"Russians"
Released: 1 November 1985
"Moon Over Bourbon Street"
Released: 1 February 1986
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	4/5 stars[2]
Chicago Tribune	2.5/4 stars[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	3/5 stars[4]
Rolling Stone	4/5 stars[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	3.5/5 stars[6]
The Village Voice	C+[7]
The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the first solo album by English musician Sting, released in the United States on 1 June 1985. The album reached number three on the UK Albums Chart[8] and number two on the US Billboard 200.

The album spawned five singles, "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free", "Fortress Around Your Heart", "Russians", Moon over Bourbon Street and "Love Is the Seventh Wave". The album earned Grammy nominations for Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Recording.
The album is named after a dream of Sting's.[9]
Although the single "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" reached No. 3 in the US, it only reached 26 in the UK, where the album's track "Russians" (about Cold War nuclear anxieties, which had peaked in the 1980s) proved more popular.
In the UK the album was kept off No. 1 in the week of its release by Marillion's Misplaced Childhood and Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen occupying the top two places. However, in the US, the album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

The movie Bring on the Night documents some of the recording work that produced this album, as well as the subsequent tour.

Songs
The songs include "Children's Crusade" (paralleling the destruction of the younger generation in World War I to the devastation brought about by heroin addiction in modern-day London)[citation needed]; the original uptempo arrangement of The Police song "Shadows in the Rain"; "We Work the Black Seam" (about the UK miners' strike of 1984–85); and "Moon over Bourbon Street", a song inspired by Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire.[10] "Consider Me Gone" references the first quatrain of Shakespeare's Sonnet 35.

Accolades
Grammy Awards
Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1986	The Dream of the Blue Turtles	Album of the Year[11]	Nominated
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male[12]	Nominated
Track listing
All tracks are written by Sting, except where noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free"	 	4:14
2.	"Love Is the Seventh Wave"	 	3:30
3.	"Russians"	Sergei Prokofiev, Sting	3:57
4.	"Children's Crusade"	 	5:00
5.	"Shadows in the Rain"	 	4:56
Side two
No.	Title	Length
6.	"We Work the Black Seam"	5:40
7.	"Consider Me Gone"	4:21
8.	"The Dream of the Blue Turtles"	1:15
9.	"Moon over Bourbon Street"	3:59
10.	"Fortress Around Your Heart"	4:39
Singles
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" (1985) #3 US Hot 100, #26 UK Singles Chart
"Russians" (1985) #16 US Hot 100, #12 UK Singles Chart
"Fortress Around Your Heart" (1985) #8 US Hot 100, #49 UK Singles Chart
"Love Is the Seventh Wave" (1985) #17 US Hot 100, #41 UK Singles Chart
"Moon over Bourbon Street" (1986) #44 UK Singles Chart[8] – with a B-side of "The Ballad of Mack the Knife"
General
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