If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" is the first single released from Sting's solo debut album "
The Dream of the Blue Turtles".
It is also the opening track of the album, and is featured on  as well as "The Very Best of Sting & The Police".
Political (song)
" Political" is a song by Spirit of the West.
One of the band's most famous songs, it originally appeared on the 1988 album" Labour Day".
The song was written by John Mann.
Despite the band's reputation for writing politically- themed songs," Political" is in fact about the end of a personal romantic relationship.
The verses detail the friction that led to the couple's breakup, and the chorus confirms that" Everything, every little thing, every little thing/ With you and me had to be so political."
Although the song was not a mainstream chart breakthrough for the band, it garnered them significant airplay on CBC Radio, CFNY and campus radio stations throughout Canada.
This expansion of the band's audience led to a major label deal with Warner Music Canada, who released the band's next studio album," Save This House", in 1990.
On 1991's" Go Figure", Spirit of the West's first rock album, the band recorded a new rendition of the song.
Although the lyrics remained identical( except for the word" little" being dropped from the chorus), the melody was moderately different and the instrumentation was more electric and rhythm- heavy.
The 1991 version was released as a CD single, with the B-sides" Home for a RestSad But True" and" Again and Again and Again".
However, the new version proved controversial: at a concert in London, Ontario during their tour to promote that album, fans presented the band with a petition demanding that they play the original version of the song.
As a result, on subsequent tours the band have always performed a third version of the song, which retained the rock instrumentation of the remake while reverting to the original melody.
In a 1993 concert performance on Public Radio International's" Mountain Stage" series, Mann explained some of the song's backstory, stating that the song was written about a real relationship Mann had once had, which ended while the couple were travelling in New York City.
This performance appears on the album" Upfront! Canadians Live from Mountain Stage".
It was later revealed in the book that the song was written about Mann's relationship with Jean Smith of the band Mecca Normal.
In a later interview with CBC Radio, Mann revealed that Smith once attended one of the band's shows after the release of the song; although they did not directly interact, she passed a brief note to him through the bartender:" John, it was n't that bad."
In 1995," Political" was included in the band's concert with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
The version recorded at that show appears on their 1999 greatest hits compilation" Hit Parade".
In 1999," Political" was named one of CFNY's" Top 1002 New Rock Songs of All Time", ranking 524th.
It ranked immediately ahead of The Verve Pipe's" Photograph" in 525th place, and behind Sting's" If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" in 523rd.
During Spirit of the West's 2009 live performances opening for Great Big Sea, the two bands frequently performed the song together, with Mann and Great Big Sea singer Alan Doyle alternating verses.
On November 23, 2019, The Watchmen performed the song live at their concert in Toronto as a tribute to John Mann, who had died three days before.
If You Love Me
If You Love Me may refer to:
Love Somebody
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Janice Pendarvis
Janice Gadsden Pendarvis is a singer, songwriter, and voiceover artist.
She has worked with artists such as Sting, David Bowie, Steely Dan, Peter Tosh, Brandy, The O' Jays, Philip Glass, Jimmy Cliff, Laurie Anderson, the Naked Brothers Band, and the Rolling Stones.
Janice provided background vocals for Sting on the album" The Dream of the Blue Turtles", which was nominated for a Grammy for Album of the Year in 1986, and she took part in his first solo tour, sharing choruses with Dolette McDonald on the live album" Bring on the night".
Pendarvis was born and raised in Queens, New York.
She started her career as a songwriter and was married to Leon Pendarvis, who is a longtime SNL band- member and keyboardist as well as a music industry composer- arranger.
Pendarvis sang on a Roberta Flack background session for the" Feel Like Makin' Love" album, which included fellow background singers Deniece Williams and Patti Austin.
David Spinozza, a good friend of Pendarvis, convinced her to become serious about learning the craft of singing.
Her most well- known commercial success has been being featured in the documentary" Bring On The Night", profiling the music of Sting at the beginning of his solo career.
She was featured in the music video" If You Love Somebody( Set Them Free)".
She also sang lead on the song" Lightning" from the Philip Glass album" Songs from Liquid Days".
Pendarvis has served on the National Boards of the Screen Actors Guild( SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists( AFTRA).
She has also served on the NY Chapter Board of Governors of The Recording Academy( NARAS).
Currently, Pendarvis is an associate professor of voice at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
She appears in the documentary film" 20 Feet from Stardom"( 2013), directed by Morgan Neville.
O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.
Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician and actor.
He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984, and launched a solo career in 1985.
He has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age and worldbeat in his music.
As a solo musician and a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards: he won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take", three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
In 2019, he received a BMI Award for "Every Breath You Take" becoming the most played song in radio history.
In 2002, Sting received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003.
In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording.
In 2003, Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music.
He was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at the White House in 2014, and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2017.
With the Police, Sting became one of the world's best-selling music artists.
Solo and with the Police combined, he has sold over 100 million records.
In 2006, "Paste" ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters.
He was 63rd of VH1's 100 greatest artists of rock, and 80th of "Q" magazine's 100 greatest musical stars of the 20th century.
He has collaborated with other musicians on songs such as "Money for Nothing" with Dire Straits, "Rise & Fall" with Craig David, "All for Love" with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, "You Will Be My Ain True Love" with Alison Krauss, and introduced the North African music genre raï to Western audiences through the hit song "Desert Rose" with Cheb Mami.
In 2018, he released the album "44/876", a collaboration with Jamaican musician Shaggy, which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2019.
The Dream of the Blue Turtles
The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the first solo album by English musician Sting, released in the United States on 1 June 1985.
The album reached number three on the UK Albums Chart and number two on the US" Billboard" 200.
In the US the album spawned four singles," If You Love Somebody Set Them FreeFortress Around Your HeartRussians" and" Love Is the Seventh Wave".
The album earned Grammy nominations for Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Recording.
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.

Question: Which country the performer of song If You Love Somebody Set Them Free is from?
Answer: British