Songoftheday 9/16/15 - I see me with you and all the things you do, keep turning round and round in my mind...

"We'll Be Together" - Sting
from the album ...Nothing Like The Sun (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's SOTD comes from former Police "chief" Sting, whose first solo album had scored him four top-40 hits with "Russians", "Love Is The Seventh Wave", "Fortress Around Your Heart", and the #3 "If You Love Someone Set Them Free". In 1987, he released is second effort, ...Nothing Like The Sun, with the unusually stark white-boy funk of "We'll Be Together" as the first single. It was his most upbeat song released at the time, with a black-and-white classy video to boot that was given A-list status by MTV...

"We'll Be Together" became Sting's third solo top-10 American pop hit in December of 1987. The song also crossed over to #20 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart, and even made it to #39 on their R&B list. The extended version climbed to #17 on the Dance Club Play chart as well. Internationally, the single peaked at #14 in Ireland and #33 in the Netherlands, but surprisingly just missed the Top-40 in Sting's native Britain at #41, and stopped at #46 in France. However the ...Nothing Like The Sun album would go on to grab a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

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Here's Sting performing the song on Saturday Night Live...

...and again on tour in 1988...

...he brought the song out again for his Brand New Day shows in 1999-2000...

..and finally with special guest Annie Lennox for his Sacred Love tour in 2004...

Up tomorrow: A flown eagle declared no women allowed.