Fortress Around Your Heart

"Fortress Around Your Heart"
UK 12-inch vinyl single
Single by Sting
from the album The Dream of the Blue Turtles
B-side
  • Shadows in the Rain (Europe)
  • Consider Me Gone (live) (USA)
ReleasedAugust 1985 (US)[1]
4 October 1985 (UK)[2]
Genre
Length4:48
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Sting
Producer(s)
  • Sting
  • Peter Smith
Sting singles chronology
"Love Is the Seventh Wave"
(1985)
"Fortress Around Your Heart"
(1985)
"Russians"
(1985)
Music video
"Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart (Option Two)" on YouTube

"Fortress Around Your Heart" is a hit single released from Sting's 1985 debut solo album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. It was released as the album's third single in the UK, and the second single in the US.

The song was later included on the U.S. release of the Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994 compilation album.

  1. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 792. ISBN 9780862415419.
  2. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 12.