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Track Listings
| 1. The Lazarus Heart |
| 2. Be Still My Beating Heart |
| 3. Englishman In New York - Sting, Neil Dorfsman, Hugh Padgham |
| 4. History Will Teach Us Nothing |
| 5. They Dance Alone |
| 6. Fragile - Neil Dorfsman, Sting, Hugh Padgham |
| 7. We'll Be Together - Bryan Loren, Paul Mckenna, Sting |
| 8. Straight To My Heart |
| 9. Rock Steady |
| 10. Sister Moon |
| 11. Little Wing |
| 12. The Secret Marriage |
| 13. Englishman In New York - Pete Smith, Sting |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Sting's second and most conceptually dense solo album moved on from jazz to ideas picked up from Latin music. Even when he's not using Latin music's tricky polyrhythms, the melodies of the ballad "Be Still My Beating Heart" and the hit dance single "We'll Be Together" suggest he'd been listening to lots of salsa. If you can sting, you can cross-pollinate, too, and there are some other subtle hybrids here, notably the Gil Evans Orchestra's gliding arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" and the reggae-in-a-Cole Porter suit of "Englishman in New York". Of course, the former schoolteacher has some lyrical messages to deliver and the three songs that originally made up the second side of a double LP are a bitter meditation on Latin American politics and history. --Douglas Wolk
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Sting's double-length follow-up to his solo debut DREAMS OFTHE BLUE TURTLE is very much in the same sophisticated, adult pop vein, although darker and less jazzy (notwithstandinga collaboration with Miles Davis's arranger Gil Evans on a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing"). The songs are a generally varied lot, ranging from a tribute to victims of repression in Argentina ("They Dance Alone") to a tongue-in-cheek, sort-of-reggae tribute to famous eccentric Quentin Crisp ("An Englishman in New York"). The sort-of-funk "We'll Be Together"(originally written for a Japanese beer commercial) isthe most upbeat and pop-ish thing here, and was deservedly a hit single, although Sting now disdains it.
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