Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart - 1985 (from the movie Bring On The Night)

[Sisyfos1000]

Signs of flirting at 1:29. Gordon, you naughty boy!

[dobbysta2]

@Sisyfos1000 hehe yes saw that too

[WxHeel]

this is Blu-ray?

[gordonmatthewsumner]

@WxHeel I think no ...

[WxHeel]

@gordonmatthewsumner but this high quality?

[shidatatomoyami]

oh Kenny..... R.I.P.

[lincoln3000]

Wow! That was something special!

[alexbarmann]

A bunch of brilliant musicians AND human beings, they've enchanted almost all of us!

[mytube543210]

hey thanks a million trillion..I've danced my heart this eve

[gordonmatthewsumner]

@mytube543210 thats what this is for :-))



[Sylsianne]

One of the most special Sting songs, the melody is very subtile.

[Jimco913]

Amazing performance.

[flowerpowerzz]

‎"Don't play everything (or every time). let some things GO BY. Some music's just IMAGINED" - that's true jazz...~ Thelonius Monk

This stadium jazz is too forced............

[flowerpowerzz]

too jazzy and stylized for the lyrical content lacking authenticity..........just not feeling Sting .......he wasn't in his flo.........one perspective .......

[brianallancobb]

The Blue Turtles' best song. Do you think Sting wrote it about Trudy? They seemed to have had a good relationship. She bore him five kids, last I heard, and I think they're still together.

Love the couplet:

Had to stop in my tracks for fear

Of walking on the mines I'd laid

[mstephens44]

@brianallancobb It after his first marriage broke up.

[brianallancobb]

@mstephens44

Thanks, never knew the background. Remember reading about Sting in divorce court in, perhaps 1982, trying to keep from paying out big bucks in alimony (I think there were no kids).

[andmaketherain]

This was an OK rendition, but I am not that impressed.

[megaEDWIN3]

rock on bwana

[Beaglejune80]

@fourplusseven Calm down.

[anercolombo]

AMAZING SONG !!!!!

[1hotdilf]

Is that Omar Hakim on the kit? I know he did the original. Man he is smooth on the kit!

[gordonmatthewsumner]

@1hotdilf yes he is ... the grandmaster of drums !!!

[MURFDASURFF]

@1hotdilf Watch Omar at 1:10 quickly swing his mic around behind him,so it is out of the way just before he lets loose..

[DarkeningSkies1]

@1hotdilf Love his work, but outside the Sting & Weather Report stuff not sure of some other good sessions he has done- any recommendations?

[sonatonemaster]

The Police could do better

[paulbarraza]

@sonatonemaster this band is way better than the Police musicianship wise

[JJ3597]

Thank you Sting for producing this grat album of yours'........it's really brilliant!

[Tachan20]

OMG! Sting and his band sound awesome!

[edwinmcgill]

Branford did it in this song.

[kop1612]

this sounds sooo good in my laptop/portable speakers equipment, thanks for posting

[mrJimCharles]

Would somebody please upload the Flintstones part?

[Marisa20XI]

Nice! I used to have this movie recorded on VHS years ago, and of course the sound was muffled, not to mention I played it over and over again lol! I dont know, for some reason, I've preferred sting's live performances (like this one) over the album versions. When ever "message in a bottle" is mentioned to me, for instance, I always think of the solo version he did in this movie. anyway, thanks for cleaning this up "Gordy" :) jk!

[CoachAsmono]

Kenny Kirkland...you are so missed, but your music lives forever.

[MrBrentR]

This movie was done sooooooo right.

[ahhguitar]

love branford outside (3.25 -3.31)

[ericslash88]

this man is extraordinary

[haski570]

sting should grow his hair out again

[stone985]

@haski570 Ya right, now he looks like Bert & Ernie, his hair cut presently and his music is not good. He needs to go back to this hairstyle although older and go back to his Jazz roots with this style of music and maybe bring back Bradford Marsalis. He hasnt had a good record since Mercury Falling, he was jazzy then, and then he got dorky and brought in new band members and the dorky Chris Botti trumpet player, he hasnt been good for a while, he needs to watch this and go back to his roots.

[zapkvr]

@stone985 I recommend to you Symphonicity. If you don't like that then you have no heart. I saw the Dream of the blue turtles tour in 1986 and I saw Symphonicity two weeks ago. I know which version of Sting I prefer. For the record, I am not a fan of Police.

[thiskidrighthere123]

phenominal performance...I mean can he sound any more like the studio version.  Perfect.

[bigbiggedybigman]

@thiskidrighthere123 Well since this was recorded for a movie the sound will have been polished, had overdubs added, and mastered in the studio all over again. You're not actually watching a live performance, it's a video of a performance.

[ahhguitar]

@bigbiggedybigman  that's business !

[mrJimCharles]

@thiskidrighthere123 The vocals on this have clearly been "fixed" watch closely

[acfiorentina]

Thank you for posting this.

[gordonmatthewsumner]

@acfiorentina :-)))

[myownservant]

Just stunning...

[BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

@myownservant i'm so glad he left the police and went solo, his songwriting skills and musical talent was never really evident until he went on his own, it's like the police were holding him back.

[iburn4u]

Best live recording he's ever made.

[MrTommy001]

Yup! I love it, love it, love it!!!

[thiskidrighthere123]

@MrTommy001 

[fyesaotome]

GREAT SONG AND VIDEO

YEAH!!!!!!!!