The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the debut solo album by English musician Sting, released on 17 June 1985.

[20] He initially worked on tracks for his debut solo album with producers Torch Song: William Orbit, Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert.

3 in the US, it only reached 26 in the UK, where the album's track "Russians" (about Cold War nuclear anxieties, which had peaked in the 1980s) proved more popular.

1 in the week of its release by Marillion's Misplaced Childhood and Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen occupying the top two places.

[citation needed] The film Bring On the Night documents some of the recording work that produced this album, as well as the subsequent tour.