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Artist: Sting
Title: The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
Format: 12"
Label: A&M Records
Cat No: 393 750-1
Released: 12 Jul 1985
Country:
Genres: Pop RockSmooth JazzSoft Rock
Status Have
Added To List 8th June 2025
Disc 1 | 12"
No Notes 
A Matrix:
615 393 750-1S1 320  
B Matrix:
615 393 750-1S2 320  

Additional Information

Comments Specific features related to this particular version:
- "Copyright Control" printed on labels instead of any specific rights society.
- matrix/runout variants MUST include G15/615/615- as a part of matrix/runout inscriptions, without POLYGRAM as a further part of the inscriptions. [l268474]: "G15" (which may appear as 615 though - see images) in the runouts stands for pressings on behalf of / for the [l339260] plant"
- ID No. printed in upper right corner on inner sleeve, e.g. 393 750-1
- first page of the 4-page fold-out insert contains only ID No 393 750-1 in the lower right corner, without any other text printed next to it.

Comes with the inner sleeve, and the four page fold-out insert. May come with several different hype-stickers attached:
- "INCLUDES THE HITSINGLE If You Love Somebody SET THEM FREE"
- "FEATURING THE HIT SINGLES: IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY SET THEM FREE AND LOVE IS THE SEVENTH WAVE PLUS RUSSIANS 393 750-1"
- "DEUTSCHER SCHALLPLATTENPREIS 1985"
Please check photo gallery for details.

Runout inscriptions are stamped. Some of the stamped inscriptions might be lightly stamped on the surface, and therefore cannot be transcribed with 100% accuracy, e.g. runout/matrix variant 6, side A, "3" in "A13" is only partially recognizable, but the parts of it that are embedded in deadwax clearly point that this is a number 3. Some parts of inscriptions can also be rotated by 180°, and therefore appear upside-down and pointing in another direction in comparison to the rest of the runout inscriptions, e.g. runout/matrix variant 6, side B "1 - 2A".

Other similar releases:
- [r=1392702]/r1392702: has "GEMA" on labels, also printed in West Germany with the same catalogue number.
- [r=18089818]/r18089818: different rim-text, no G15/615/615- in runouts.
- [r=21736906]/r21736906: different rim-text, Made in Holland on labels, no G15/615/615- in runouts.
- [r=25528315]/r25528315: identical except that it has no G15/615/615- in runouts.
- [r=29307154]/r29307154: no embossed PRS Hannover, no G15/615/615- in runouts.
- [r=30064828]/r30064828: identical, except for having POLYGRAM as a part of the runout inscriptions on at least one, if not both, sides.

All songs © 1985 Magnetic Publishing Ltd., represented by Reggatta Music/Illegal Songs, Inc. except for Shadows In The Rain published by Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
All titles © 1985 G. M. Sumner except Shadows In The Rain © 1980 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
℗&© 1985 A & M Records Inc.

Back sleeve: Printed in West Germany. Made in West Germany / Distribution Polydor / PRS Hannover-logo debossed.
Label: MADE IN WEST GERMANY BY POLYGRAM
Mixed at Blue Wave Recording Studios, St. Philip, Barbados and at Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec.

In the track A3 'Russians', borrowed theme from "Romance from Lieutenant Kijé Suite" - Sergei Prokofiev.
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