Sting performing in Norway in 1985. His first solo album, 1985's The Dream of the Blue Turtles, featured jazz musicians including Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim and Branford Marsalis.

Sting, lead singer of The Police, talks to Tony Wragg... Sting, it has been more than two years since the last Police album, 'Synchronicity'. You are now touring the world for seven months as a solo performer. Were you at any stage apprehensive about going it alone...?

The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the debut solo album by English musician Sting, released on 17 June 1985. The album reached number three on the UK Albums Chart [19] and number two on the US Billboard 200.

The following interview with Vic Garbarini appeared in the August 1985 issue of Musician magazine... Fear and loathing in the Caribbean... "The strangest thing happened today: I was out windsurfing on my board and suddenly the rudder was gone. It …

2022年12月21日 · Sting (born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, in Wallsend, England, October 2, 1951) is an iconic English musician, best known as the founding member, lead singer, and bassist for The Police from 1977 to 1986, when the band broke up.

Sting has frequently declared rock & roll dead, but his decision to conspire with jazz musicians doesn't signify a categorical rejection of rock.

2025年1月21日 · Sting, British singer and songwriter known both for being the front man of the band the Police and for his successful solo career that followed. His musical style was distinguished by its intermingling of pop, jazz, world music, and other genres.

"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" is the first single by English musician Sting from his solo debut album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985). It is also the opening track of the album, and is featured on Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994 as well as …

2024年4月3日 · In June 1985, Sting released his first solo album The Dream Of The Blue Turtles. Featuring the cream of America’s young, black jazz musicians – Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, Omar Hakim and Darryl Jones the album showed that Sting had lost none of his songwriting ability by being outside of the Police camp. ... The musician would serve ...

2023年5月30日 · Sting performing in Norway in 1985. His first solo album, 1985's The Dream of the Blue Turtles, featured jazz musicians including Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim and Branford Marsalis.