Fortress Around Your Heart

This was inspired by Sting's divorce. The pain he felt when he couldn't make his first marriage work led him to write some of his biggest hits, including "Every Breath You Take" and "King of Pain". Sting wrote the song in the studio in Barbados in 1985. The song features a Branford Marsalis sax solo,.^[1] 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.^[2]

Single release

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.^[3]

Bring on the Night

During rehearsals for this tour, Sting had a camera crew along to make a documentary called Bring on the Night.

References

↑ "discography.albums". Sting.com. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
↑ Hirshey, Gerri. "Sting feels the burn", Rolling Stone, September 1985.
↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 606.

Sting

Studio albums	The Dream of the Blue Turtles ...Nothing Like the Sun The Soul Cages Ten Summoner's Tales Mercury Falling Brand New Day Sacred Love Songs from the Labyrinth If on a Winter's Night... Symphonicities The Last Ship 57th & 9th

EPs	Nada Como el Sol Demolition Man Still Be Love in the World

Live albums	Bring on the Night Acoustic Live in Newcastle ...All This Time The Journey and the Labyrinth Live in Berlin

Compilations	Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994 The Very Best of... Sting & The Police The Best of 25 Years

Singles	"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" "Love Is the Seventh Wave" "Fortress Around Your Heart" "Russians" "We'll Be Together" "Be Still My Beating Heart" "Englishman in New York" "Fragile" "They Dance Alone" "All This Time" "It's Probably Me" "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" "Fields of Gold" "Shape of My Heart" "All for Love" "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" "Brand New Day" "Desert Rose" "Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)" "Whenever I Say Your Name" "I Can't Stop Thinking About You"

Guest singles	"Money for Nothing" "Take Me Home" "On Silent Wings" "Rise & Fall" "Always on Your Side" "Stolen Car"

Tours	Symphonicity Tour (2010–11) Back to Bass Tour (2011–13) On Stage Together Tour (2014–15) Summer 2015 (2015) Rock Paper Scissors North American Tour (2016) Summer 2016 (2016) Theatre, Club and Arena Tour (2017)

Theatre	3 Penny Opera (1989) The Last Ship (2014)

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