Fortress Around Your Heart
| "Fortress Around Your Heart" | ||||
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| Single by Sting | ||||
| from the album The Dream of the Blue Turtles | ||||
| B-side | Shadows in the Rain (Europe) Consider Me Gone (live) (USA) |
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| Released | October 1, 1985 | |||
| Format | 7", 12" | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 4:48 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Sting, Peter Smith | |||
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"Fortress Around Your Heart" is a song from Sting's 1985 album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. The song was also released as a single, and reached #8 and #49 on the U.S. and U.K. singles charts, respectively. It also reached #1 for two weeks on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart, becoming his second consecutive #1 hit on this chart.[1]
Sting wrote the song in the studio in Barbados in 1985. The song features a Branford Marsalis sax solo.[2] The inspiration for this song was the pain he felt from the failure of his first marriage. In a Musician magazine interview later that year, he said:
"Fortress is about appeasement, about trying to bridge the gaps between individuals. The central image is a minefield that you've laid around this other person to try and protect them. Then you realise that you have to walk back through it. I think it's one of the best choruses I've ever written."
During one of Sting's first performances of the song in concert in Paris, his crew lowered a tiny fortress onto the stage in a parody of the similar Stonehenge scene from the film This Is Spinal Tap.[3]
The song was included on the U.S. release of the Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 compilation album.
[edit] References
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 606.
- ^ "discography.albums". Sting.com. http://www.sting.com/discog/?v=a&a=1&id=20. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
- ^ Hirshey, Gerri. "Sting feels the burn", Rolling Stone, September 1985.
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