Sting - If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2011
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Official Music Video for If You Love Somebody Set Them Free performed by Sting.
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I am 54 now and still remember this jam from the summer of 1985 good times America was different back then
Amen..
I agree with you I was 16 in high school when the song came out! It was my favorite. I'm 55 years old
Yea I know I'm 58 I remember too seemed so easy to talk to people then none of this crap no cell phones everyone spoke to each other and it was about feeling good and the music
oh was it EVER so different back then yikes...!
I agree 👍
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
Being a kid in the 80's and watching MTV when they actually played music videos like this classic. Good times.
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
Thank you, Mr. Sumner, for recognizing that holding on to a PERSON is jailing them and that they'd want NOTHING MORE than to be free of the one who caged them. It's why you are phenomenal and someone I have always looked up to.
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!
Omar Hakim is Killing it!!!
Great tune.
Music has no color, So what difference it makes who's in this music video...! Good job guys love you all.
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 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 🌠
Killer line-up that made beautiful music together! Amazing musicianship.
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................
❤
Wish more people would understand this song
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.
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. ❤
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.
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 🔊😍🕪👍
Simply one of the coldest songs ever.... still remember the chills this gave me and how much I appreciated this masterpiece as a teen
I love this song, Because Father God has set me free this year 2021...
It was incredible for the time, and it still is today. The back vocals were incredible... Sting's talent and charm are truly unique.
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 ❤🙏
最高にゴキゲンなナンバーだ！
ポリス時代からスティングソロ含め一番好きな名曲！！！
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!
Amazing song and video. Unfortunately they dont make music like this anymore.
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
💙☮🎵
I'm Australian and English music has enthralled me from the Beatles and everything inbetween.
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.
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 ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
The gal with black clothes has awesome dance moves ♫ you go girl!!!!!
*The WOMAN in the black clothes has awesome dance moves.
Brother from the Chi is tearing that bass 🎸 up!!
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!!!
i'm 18 years old. listened to before my math exam. danced, brought a good result.
The man was a Visionary pure and simple.
Dear Myself: End the expectations. Let them breathe. Love will always win 💜
ロックとジャズが融合した曲、かっこいいよね。
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.
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!
As a kid I liked this song. But as an adult it gives me chills. Set them free!!!!!❤
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
What I love most about this video - the ladies.
They're having so much fun. Feels like I'm jamming with them.
Can listen to this endlessly, the Vibes, the Vocals, the Chocolate Nukky it’s a Masterpiece.
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... 🍷 🥂 🍼
I always was intrigued and impressed by Sting's footwear.
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 classic still feels like a breath of fresh cool air!
This performance that Sting played was the best of his ages.
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 man was ahead of his time!!!
This song STILL ROCKS. REAL MUSIC
There is no greater talent than Sting. Amazing career. 🔥❤️🦋
This just popped into my head today so had to youtube it.
Sting's music is just timeless....
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
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.
That drummer is getting down!
Omar Hakim . Best in the business
Classic Sting! His 1st solo hit from 1985!
This music video is like a strange but groovy dream.
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.
Man these lyrics are forever true.. Sting is and will always be GREAT!
love this video...everyone jamming, having a good time. makes me smile.
I love this too, I also like the trippy video effects! That sister is wearing that tambourine out!!!
Bernie Em
Love the sistas....Such class and style.
Bernie Em
They were digitally over lapped or what used to be called, "Double Exposure". In this case, it was done by computer with 80's Cut and Paste software that only production studios could afford. Today, the're done with Iphones. Incredible, eh?
ahhhhhhh..... I get it.
this sh.. go hard
Judge musicians by the musicians they hire.
STING IS 🔥
This is a masterpiece
I love Sting's soulful side:)
Which was always!!!🎵🎵😍✌🏾
I Love The Police, and Sting, They were Brilliant musicians, saw them Break the barriers with music! to set place changing music. for today
What the hell are you talking about?
What barriers did they break?
The Police , the still one of my favorite groups
Police and sting are brilliant musicians and song writer's they move your soul with there music.
I love music and breaking paradigms ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I loved his gasses in this video. One lens is round, the other oval. Cool.
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🙏
The summer of ‘85....I was 14 years old and getting into a lot of great music. Dream of the Blue Turtles was probably the top of that year’s best albums. I was so impressed with Sting’s jazz rock groove. I remember driving through Canada that summer. This album was played full time!
I remember.i was 14 also.great memories!!!😁😁😁
Many good albums that year!
Yep, I got a spiked haircut like sting sometimes wore and started having amazing luck with the opposite sex. Great memories!
Also 14 in the summer of '85 and it took me another 6 years to finally go to a Sting concert. ;) It was the Soul Cages tour (didn't like that album as much as the Dream of the Blue Turtles or Nothing like the Sun) but Sting WAVED at us as we were the only standing persons at the terrace right next to the stage and also illuminated from some stage spotlights.
Me too I was 14 when I first heard this but was back in 2016!
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.
Ageless music and emoctions…
"Dream of the Blue Turtles" great album.
One of the greatest artists in his time and still today...nobody can be like this...no one has that mystical magic he has in his music...the diversity ,the voice,..he is the best musical artist in my book.....
The garb they pass for music now doesn't come close to these classics!
Not even Justin Bieber.
Super classic
Gold hit 🎯
sTING IS ONE OF THE GREATEST MUSICIANS
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.
Is that EASY? Set them free
Cant please everyone. I think he is brilliant. Did anyone cry about Paul Simon
I really do not get tired of this song！
One off the coolest men from Newcastle upon Tyne.
Set them free, and then don't let them come back!
For some reason, I just needed to hear this song today!!
Most Iconic Song Ever!
Still Banging in 2022 ✨🔥🎶🔥✨ 👍🏾👍🏾
"Iconic"??? Please--all the great hits by The Police (including Sting, of course) far, far exceed this mediocre medley.
The highest form of love.
allsportsbandfan truest
allsportsbandfan true but hard to grasp.
There is a higher love but giving creation the choice is up there, for sure.
@Barry White totally agree
Lov this music always
The girls are absolutely feeling the jam. Couldn’t have made a better video.
Roxanne and If you l Love Someone Set Then Free are my favorite songs. Sting knows how to rock out! He is an 80's classic, one of my favorite singers, and whether in a band or singing solo, his music still rocks!
Great song and Roxanne and this one are my favourites xxx
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!
Bless you and your family. Enjoying your music. Take care. 🦋🪴🦋🪴
Still Rockin w Sting summer 2022