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plus. Thanks, and now please enjoy part one of this hit parade episode. Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine, about the hits from coast to coast.

I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic,

and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number One series on today's show. 40 years ago,

this month, in October of 1985, singer-songwriter Gordon Sumner, better known to the pop world as Sting,

cracked the top ten on Billboard's Hot 100 with the second single from his first solo album,

an achingly romantic, strenuously poetic ballad called Fortress Around Your Heart.

Fortress was Sting's career in

a nutshell, sophisticated,

verbose, sexy,

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