Sting - If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2011
- REMASTERED IN HD!
Official Music Video for If You Love Somebody Set Them Free performed by Sting.
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The backup singers are EVERYTHING ❤
2:48!
100 percent!
I thought so too!!!I can't keep from watching them !! EVERYTHING!!!
.. at all ! ❤🩹
The composition of this song is everything. Sting is a master songwriter.
I am 54 now and still remember this jam from the summer of 1985 good times America was different back then
Amen..
I CANNOT believe this song is 40!!!! It still sounds so FRESH. One of my first concerts was with this lineup, and I feel so incredibly fortunate to experience this brilliance from these master musicians.
My name is Butch Weatherly from Kihei, Maui, Hawaii and I am very Happy to be listening to this song very, very loud on Friday, January 26th 2024.
I sincerely wish nothing but Peace, Happiness, Awesome Health and Prosperity to all who read this. Take Care and I genuinely Love you all! Respectfully, Butch Weatherly
Still listening in 2023.
I just lost my dad and my sister eight months apart. This song is timely for me.
I set my dad and sister free to soar!🙏🏾❤
So soar you two! 😙
Sorry about both of your losses.
@@TMANN-jo1psCondolences on such major losses. 🙏
May they rest in God my friend
The girl in white is getting it
77 years old...broke my hip...still rocking out to this...sending my grandson classic rock songs...YES...IM JUST A ROCKSTAR GRANDMA...
Get well grandma. God bless!!
@ Wilson Cruz Grandma Lil says thanx. 78 this year . A few more to go. Still rocking...😃😀
My momma 82 and always love rock n roll she never liked Country music She's an AUTHENTIC OLD ROCKIN LADY
Rock On
Juxtaposing black,white, and everything in between is what made American music so great and influential in the first place! Were all complicit in it.
I remember when this came out in the 80s, I was FLOORED. I was a Big Police lover ; and I love Jazz. So this was a game changer ❤❤
Yes this was a big 80's tune... Sting completely changed his sound from the Police - especially with the addition of Branford Marsalis (who should also be credited heavily with the change)
@@GB_Rad71 Agree...Big Up❤💛🌿🌿🌿 I will be at Hllywd Bowl on Oct 7th🙋🏼♀🙋🏼♀
Jazz mood
Nice NY style
American jazz mood
Went to my Mother's funeral yesterday, and this song miraculously pops up, it's just what I needed. Music is healing, it's helped me so much.
Yeah he really knows how to “Sting” at your emotions. Sorry about your mother btw may she Rest In Peace now.
@@OneFlewOverTheCuckoo1999 Thank you Ian.😊
Stacey Mcclain You’re welcome 😊 I don’t like to see anyone sad so I try to brighten their day with puns.
@@OneFlewOverTheCuckoo1999 With so much unhappiness in the world, a sense of humor and quick wit is a valuable quality. Rare nowadays, continue to let your light so shine!😊
@@OneFlewOverTheCuckoo1999 Sting
Omar Hakim is Killing it!!!
Sting had time of jealousy. I wouldn't call envy. It was really jealousy. He bursted in anger. People handle their feelings differently. It isn't necessarily an open outcry. His idea of freedom convey a special event/occasion.
I still have wisdom.
Being a kid in the 80's and watching MTV when they actually played music videos like this classic. Good times.
i'm 18 years old. listened to before my math exam. danced, brought a good result.
Music has no color, So what difference it makes who's in this music video...! Good job guys love you all.
The police were a legendary band. Sting the solo artist was pure genius.
The Police is my favourite band of all time...
Stings solo music is horrible
It was incredible for the time, and it still is today. The back vocals were incredible... Sting's talent and charm are truly unique.
Sting: Fucking genius songwriter.
Ghost in the machine!
"We subjugate the meek/ But it's the rhetoric of failure."
been on the Sting train since 1981, when he was front man for the Police...beyond genius...genius is still asleep while this man is pulling his boots on
Kenneth J Hoffman Jr I'm same well first got into police in late seventies when I was at primary school. Roxanne was out in charts. Saw Sting in 1990/91 was amazing. He had solo album out with fragile etc on it but when he did the police songs that night then the whole venue went nuts lol.
He is so fcn'genius!
Branford Marsalis on tenor Sax
This man was ahead of his time!!!
Jesus...I can't believe this is 30 years old..sure doesn't feel that long ago...I'm old.
Wish more people would understand this song
Killer line-up that made beautiful music together! Amazing musicianship.
A True Genius at Work. The whole Ensemble is amazing, especially the backup singers. Beautiful Jazz Vibe with top notch musicians, including the great Winston Marsalis. ❤
If You Love Somebody Set Them Free by Sting is an outstanding 80s music classic. The meaningful theme of how true love symbolizes letting someone soar in life regardless if being frequently joined at their hip andor frequently able to keep tabs on them (metaphorically speaking) becomes more of a distant memory andor ancient history is performed with music brilliance.
Still cool after around 40 years.
40 yrs was just yesterday...
Love the keys, love the drums, the tambourine, the sax, the choir, Sting's voice, the chorus.
The sax for sure!
@@LoneLee2022 Sting
Universal Music Group
@@garycarr3857 Gordon Sumner................
❤
The brilliance of this song is that it reached #3 on the Billboard charts, #1 on the Rock charts, #17 on the Black/Urban charts, and top 10 on the dance charts. This was an accomplishment for an artist to be embraced by so many outlets. This is probably one of the few times in charts history.
Another One Bites the Dust had similar success.
Don't forget Higher Love by Steve Winwood, you could literally turn from station to station and it would come on.
@@christianhafer9819 Yep, I still love those songs,these youngsters need to try it. Put in a great beat with a hard core bassist, lead and rythem guitar, some brass and a keyboardist, loop a singer and background vocals. Then Rap meets Rock like Run DMC. It's hard to argue who mixed genres first. Little Richard, Santana the George Clinton with Funkadelic, the Doors were really a hard blues band. There were others.
@@christianhafer9819 Another One Bites the Dust had the most Awesome Bass line it tore up the Disco and Soul charts. Freddie Mercury rips it up, the guitar is awesome, and the drummer on point and an animal.
@@herseyberry4655 Good night 🌠
Reminds me of my first trip to US with my then GF now wife in the mid-80s, sunbathing by the pool all day and watching MTV all night in our $20 motel room in Kissimmee.
Wonderful memories.
Oh my...
If you love somebody
If you love someone
If you love somebody
If you love someone set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
i haven't heard this song in over 25 years. My Dad loved this song. He played it over and over.
I have had this video/song on repeat for over 1 hour. I can't turn it off.
This I do believe has to be one of the best collaborated songs ever assembled.
I really can't describe this sound. It's Soulful, Jazzy, Bluesy, Rocky, It's an outstanding record. (That's what we called it back in the day). lol-lol-lol
Look at that Bass player....He thumb slappin them strings and walking the dog.
The keyboardist, Oh my, just listen at him. His sound hold's it all together.
Drummer is stank slappin them skins.
Please tell me yall hear them horns.
Even the cymbals make a really nice mark.
Then, then, then STING all on top of it. WHEW!!!
This record is so well put together.
Just watch the video. It's breathtaking!!!
This song marked a turning point in my life and it still impacts me to this day, let me explain. When sting released the “Dream of the blue turtles” album I was already angry because it signaled the official end of The Police, but when I HEARD the album, including this brilliant song along with the mesmerizing “Fortress around your heart” I was somewhat saddened because I now knew and had to accept that the decadent but innocent “MTV Golden Age” from 1981-1985, which featured Pat Benetar, The Police, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Culture Club, Huey Lewis and the news, Men At Work, Genesis/Phil Collins, Def Leppard, Bruce Springsteen, Duran Duran, Lionel Richie, Hall & Oates, Prince, The Eurythmics, Michael Jackson, Wham, and so many others, was now officially over and music was moving into a brave new frontier, but I will forever cherish and long for that time and that music........bittersweet indeed........
Yes that was the time of talent , great talent !!!
Children crusade ❤
@@hairbeauty8083 YES IT WAS!!!!
It is pure nostalgia
@KrishnaDas-st7jc Yes it is!
I love this song, Because Father God has set me free this year 2021...
Song has special meaning at my house. We set each other free and went our separate ways. 6 years later, after a month of reunion, we walked the aisle. That was 38 years ago. I'd rather be lucky than good.
What a lovely *happily ever after* story, @Icomenotinpeace Butwithasword (what a nick, Lol 😬🤓)
LPeaceM
💙☮🎵
It looks like they filmed everyone’s parts separately. Then put em all together for the finished product.
The gal with black clothes has awesome dance moves ♫ you go girl!!!!!
*The WOMAN in the black clothes has awesome dance moves.
Amazing song and video. Unfortunately they dont make music like this anymore.
This was a super band..Omar Hakim on drums, Branford Marsalis and the late great Kenny Kirkland on keys!
Yes indeed, I remember like it was yesterday when his first solo effort came out. And he came to PR for the tour of the Dream of the blue turtles.
And Sting on vocals!
Please do not overlook Daryl Jones on Bass!
Wow, did not know all the personal, I loved dream of blue turtles, displayed the jazz/soul of Sting, of course Stewart Copeland with the Police was no slouch on the skins!
Preach 🔊😍🕪👍
Loves STING'S guitaring here. lol
Is this the only video to show the human aura...besides Brand New Day? 😈
IF YOU'RE STILL LISTENING TO THIS MASTERPIECE IN 2022, YOU'RE A LEGEND 💌
Oh yes of course.
I am, actually🙂
@@giuseppedominici7097 Haha
@@giuseppedominici7097 🤗
Of course
The man was a Visionary pure and simple.
1972 National League Champion Cincinnati Reds (95-59). 1972 National League MVP Johnny Bench (#5 - Cincinnati Reds)!!! 1973. National League Western Division Champion Cincinnati Reds (99-63). 1973 National League MVP Pete Rose (#14 - Cincinnati Reds)!!! BIG RED MACHINE!!!
Ageless music and emoctions…
What a blessing it was to grow up in the 80's, turn on Mtv, and listen to great music like this, there is no one as talented as Sting these days, the man is a pure genius songwriter
if you say so
Freemasons wrote every tune!!!changed the frequency from 432hz !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SXI96 Exactly!! Class of 1986! Dear Lord thank you for those days! 😎❤️🙏🏻 Precious Memories
@@Bawls- You'll never experience that feeling.. 80s music was one of a kind, the 80s were a special time, it's hard to describe but just trust me, you'd want to go back if you experienced it first hand, like having great sex
@@monicabeach6909 80's kids rock ❤🙏
Sting's music is just timeless....
Is that EASY? Set them free
Sting wrote this song..because people loved his song "every step you take" Too much..
Can listen to this endlessly, the Vibes, the Vocals, the Chocolate Nukky it’s a Masterpiece.
This music video is like a strange but groovy dream.
I find that saxophone player the most fascinating character here. The way he fades out unless he's playing, like some kind of ghost or something.
Careful with that ax, Eugene!
One of my favorite memories of this song is being on the beach at Seaside Heights NJ, in 1985 and this song came on the radio and suddenly everyone changed their station to hear it. It was awsome. No one brings their radio to beach anymore!
What I love most about this video - the ladies.
They're having so much fun. Feels like I'm jamming with them.
Has anyone noticed? When the Sax player aint playin, he's faded out. But when it's his turn, he's faded in .and when he's done, he's faded out again.. 😇😇😇
Video directed by Godley and Creme
Classic Sting! His 1st solo hit from 1985!
I'm still rocking with this classic in 2024 and beyond. What about you? ✊
Rocking this in 21 bro
Not me. Got bored and stopped listening to it years ago.
Hello!!!🎵🎵🎵🎵😍
And finally they remastered this treasure! 🙏
@@SmartRobot-wc2fb hard to believe it could get better, but... 🍷 🥂 🍼
This was a trial run in 1985 of how to perform during a Global lockdown. If you can't see the irony or pun of it, exactly.
The 80s were pure jamming to real music. They don’t make real music anymore.... just noise is all it is!
2021 and who's still loving this? this video is in my opinion, one of the coolest artful and creative videos every made. Somebody came with a concept and executed perfectly.
I agree, truly a visual and conceptual work of art, kinda mesmerizing, so much fun to watch
April 30,2021 at 12:01am 🔊🕺🏼
@LIVERPOOL me too .
2022
Me Me Me ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
This song has a personal meaning for many people. When we realized it was the only thing to do when the greatest love of our lives could never return our affection
With my mom being sick I had to go live with my Uncle William and his family in Calif. I learned to like jazz.After my mom died I returned to Ga. The kid's dad exposed me to Sting,Hendrix, J.Joplin,all kinds of music 🎶 and I learned to love it.Fleetwood Mac,Steely Dan.,Halls&Oats the list goes on.Of course there were The Temptations and Motown.Sounds of Philadelphia.Stax Record so forth and so. on.l am a seasoned lover of music 🎶. Still love and appreciate it all.
Top 5 Five Single Hitsongs Billboard Chart Sting Lead Vocalist Songwriter Bassist Guitarist The Police English British 🇬🇧 Band New Waves Eighties 80s Present Legendary Europe Waves
There is no greater talent than Sting. Amazing career. 🔥❤️🦋
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Forever conditioned to believe that we can't live
We can't live here and be happy with less
So many riches, so many souls
Everything we see we want to possess"
it means everything to me !!! happiness is within you !!! love caring sharing and setting the one you love free without condition or hatred only pure love willing and hope faith !! i realised that positiv thought and energy changed and will continue to change my life forever... and this song is just ... a masterpiece !
Says sting who's as rich as fuck 😂
well apart form envy - what people don't seem to understand is that he writes simple lyrics for singles to feed the masses and more complex lyrics for the albums, like the classic 60's bands i guess. and i mean what a singer and musician - incredible, has every right to be up himself and is much better than a lot of other musicians who criticize him. i also am drawn to the way he is aware of various philosophies and incorporates that into his music - he is definitely not a one trick pony but likes paul simon tee hee. the police were incredibly popular but not with critics - perhaps the minimalist 80's version of led zep in that they were critically dismissed but i don't care, i love sting's work - so there haters. luv, mod paul
Sting did not exploit blacks, contrary to popular belief, alot of blacks Who didn't Listen to The Police, became instant fans of Sting.
"Dream of the Blue Turtles" great album.
Simply one of the coldest songs ever.... still remember the chills this gave me and how much I appreciated this masterpiece as a teen
Just walked in to Mcdonald's, and the girl is on my mind 😊
The charts needed this song when it came out circa ‘85-86. Tremendous musical substance. Nice to see people of color coming together after all music is colorless but imbued with sonic beauty. Enjoy this music if you are young. This music is a treasure.
I love this video because it’s multi cultural and the song is absolutely fabulous
I love it bc it {{{ROCKS}}} and I'm 70 and STILL have to DANCE when I hear it!🎶‼️
@@Messenger318 Sting
To all the lost loves that had to be "set free," listen to Jamiroquai's "Tallulah" and return! The time is at hand.
I loved his gasses in this video. One lens is round, the other oval. Cool.
I saw Sting during this tour (83-85?) in a once nice turned dump venue, Boutwell Auditorium, Birmingham, Alabama, 2nd or 3rd row. Sorry, MANY things I don't remember from those years 🙄. But this I DO remember and it's so cool, solidified my love for the man. A female fan made it on stage to Sting, the Birmingham PD got to her and roughly threw her off. Sting stops mid-song and just lays into the cops, profanity n all. MAJOR RESPECT for the guy! And they start the song over. Great memory 😎☮️!
I don't understand why people find fault with this video. This video was intended to be this way. I actually think it was pretty neat the way they did it. It also looked like they had a fun time making it, Great song and video !
it was groundbreaking, kinda like peter gabriel's sledgehammer. back when MTV actually had a play list
My favorite STING music video!
This is why I hate videos. I know I'm old but I never even watch videos. I judge a song based on its sound, lyrics, melody, and how it affects me. I think videos have hurt music in general. You can't dislike a song because you disliked the video yet I heard some of my daughter's friends saying they didn't like "this video...." When I asked if they liked the song, they were kind of stymied. I know that even great artists like Sting had to do videos in support of his music but I think it's sad that we've come to that.
This technique is still appreciated, especially in a world where storytelling is done with digital effects and transitions. Manual and practical effects took, time and mental/physical energy.
kath nh Absolutely agree. This particular video was innovative, had great music behind it, and at the same time it was part of the MTV wave that eventually swept music aside and replaced it with theatrics.
My favorite song from Sting🎶🎶🎸 so funky and jazz influenced
My favourite too
@@philantropique don't forget consider me gone. (the live version) that song sounds jazz oriented too.
Cant please everyone. I think he is brilliant. Did anyone cry about Paul Simon
Is that that guy for New Orleans on the horn....😎🦪 Branford marsalis?
I Performed this at my spring assembly at school as an intermission act. Sang and played guitar while I wore my shades, open dress shirt, and my Johnny Bravo shirt.
I can't stop looking at the lady playing the tambourine like she's in church
If you love somebody and they don't return your love, set them free and tell them to jump in a lake.
Haha good one!
Eu fui, eu sou, eu sempre serei fã do Sting 💚
Man these lyrics are forever true.. Sting is and will always be GREAT!
One off the coolest men from Newcastle upon Tyne.
Judge musicians by the musicians they hire.
The girls are absolutely feeling the jam. Couldn’t have made a better video.
Gordon Is my man...I have just loved him since 1986!!!
Since 1979.
Same here! Since about '86❤❤❤ Thats bae. His residencey is postponed til next year🙏
sTING IS ONE OF THE GREATEST MUSICIANS
Lost my mom and best friend from high school one month apart in 2020..Wishing I was back in college when this song came out in 85
The girl in white shorts got it going on
This man was ahead of his time!!!
When this came out I knew Sting was officially black. One of the bruthas for sure.
Bought the tape when it came out 1985, ripe old age of 16.
Watching Darryl Jones on bass was one of my inspirations to play bass.
This Song Is Inspired From The Warner Bros. Movie "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home".
The bass player is the only reason I watch this video. Sting is awesome, but the bass player brings the song to life.
An older post mentioned overlays. This was a pretty intricate video production, if you scrutinize it carefully.
Think about it... everyone had to be filmed separately, against a green screen (except for the Kenny Kirkland, the keyboardist, who appears to be the only one on the real set). The others were uniquely composited into each shot:
* Sting - radiates "heat waves" whenever he sings, they fade when he takes a breath. Notice the ripples alter the view of whomever/whatever is behind him.
* Brandford Marsalis (sax) - transparent when not playing.
* Daryl Jones (bass) - monochromatic while playing (starting about 0:16).
* Dolette McDonald and Janice Pendarvis (vocals/tambourine) - varying frame rates, time-freezes and time-jumps.
* Omar Hakim (drums) - aggessively green-screened (so that the chrome of his set "bleeds" into the background unnaturally, along with the rug tassels), and there's a subtle vibration applied to the camera shooting him.
Every time they changed camera angles, the video's director had to plan the spatial arrangement... who is in front of/behind who? Not to mention continuity between shots.
Really eye-catching at the time.
PScooter63 I think Godley and Creme (10 cc , solo "Cry") made this video. Was very unique at the time.
Sting stivi wonders
That's like too exact analysis for me to deal with at the moment. Good eye.
When you break it down like that...this video is freakin' more awesome than l ever realized, especially more than l realized 30 years ago!
Nice analysis. I think the heat radiating from 'Gordon' is bordering on random. Although it does seems to be concentrated when he sings. But the breathing comment? Not so sure.
Anybody gettin' it in 2019? Love this vid.
Me I love 💘 Sting/The 🚔 Set them freeeeee ooowwww
Yep me
Good vibes from Amazon jungle to you
Good song, Phil.
2020! The women look like twins.
This, and Fortress are the best tunes Sting has released without Copeland, and Summers. Great tune
Sting looks like Scotty Kilmer the car guy in this video! lol
Saw Sting on this tour from the front row at Radio City. Had a friend who slept out for days to be at the head of the line when tickets went on sale. Those were the days!
Where did this kind of music gone to
no instruments in the schools and people still want to be creative.. so they turned the boombox stereo and rap over things.. not very creative but nevertheless it connects with the masses who don't know what a tritone is!
first two notes from the "Simpsons."
The same was as correct grammar.
wat
That drummer is getting down!
Omar Hakim . Best in the business
This is not long enough. Never was.