We Work the Black Seam

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"We Work the Black Seam"
Single by Sting
from The Dream of the Blue Turtles"
B-side"The Dream of the Blue Turtles"
ReleasedJune 17, 1985 (1985-06-17)
RecordedNovember 1984 – March 1985
StudioBlue Wave Studio, Saint Philip, Barbados and Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada
Genre
Length5:42
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Sting
Producer(s)Sting and Pete Smith
Sting singles chronology
""Moon Over Bourbon Street"
(1986) 		We Work the Black Seam ""We'll Be Together"
(1987)

"We Work the Black Seam" is a 1986 song by Sting and is the sixth single from his debut studio album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. It was released as a single in Germany, New Zealand and Australia. The song expresses about the miners strike in the United Kingdom in 1984 and 1985.

We Work The Black Seam Media

  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a working luncheon with President Ronald Reagan at Camp David

  • March in support of striking miners

  • Sting at Paris-Bercy May 3, 1986.

  • The Hartlepool nuclear reactor, during construction in 1983

  • "We tunneled deep inside the nation's soul .."

  • "Grimy faces were never seen ..."

References

  1. ↑ Pareles, John (17 June 1997). "The Dream of the Blue Turtles". Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-dream-of-the-blue-turtles-19970617. Retrieved 24 June 2014. 
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin. All-Time Top 1000 Albums (1999)Virgin Books. p. 101. ISBN 0-7535-0354-9.
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