“When We Dance” by Sting

Sting wrote "When We Dance" to order, one of two new songs (the other was "This Cowboy Song") added to his first greatest-hits set, Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994, and A&M put it out as a single on October 17, 1994. He had the melody kicking around for a year before the rest fell into place, and he called the result a generic ballad, though it's a slow-dance weeper with more ache in it than that label suggests.

Hugh Padgham co-produced it with him, and Howard Greenhalgh directed the video. European radio grabbed it fast, with half of Britain's stations adding it, and it became the only solo top-10 hit Sting ever scored at home.

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