'Fields Of Gold' originally appeared on 1993's 'Ten Summoner's Tales' album, and was the third track from the album to be released as a single. Whilst the single only reached #16 in the UK and #23 in the States, it has become one of the most popular Sting songs on the radio receiving a BMI award in 1999 for achieving over 2 million airplays on US radio. Undoubtedly a 'classic' Sting song - the track has been an ever present in Sting's set since 1993, featuring Dominic Miller's nylon stringed guitar. The B-side on the 7" and cassette contained the album version of 'We Work The Black Seam' from 1985's 'The Dream Of The Blue Turtles' whereas as the CD singles opted for live version of songs recorded on the Soul Cages tour in Holland during May 1991. One of the tracks was a cover version of Jimi Hendrix's 'Purple Haze'.

"Well I've moved to the country for the first time in my life, and there are barley fields right next door. And I remember walking through one day and seeing this crop being moved by the wind and the sunshine, and it looked like there could have been people making love in the barley, or the wind seemed like it was making love to the barley, so I thought it was a great metaphor for love, and, its a kind of love song."
Sting, 'Ten Summoner's Tales' Promotional Interview Disc, '93

"But now the audience has taken to doing this when I sing it (he sways like barley in the breeze), en masse, which is disconcerting. But you can't stop them, can you Oi! Stop that fucking shite!"
Sting, Mojo, 2/95

"It wasn't huge in the charts but I like it. It was written and recorded at Lake House, and recorded here, and it's just a song about the landscape. I love the place. It takes a lot to get me away. It was the record company's idea to call the album 'Fields of Gold. I argued against it at first, but I suppose it fits. Maybe it should have been 'Fields of Platinum'."
Independent On Sunday, 11/94

"Some of my most successful songs have been very simple; I reminded myself of that. One of the most successful was 'Fields of Gold', which is as straight a folk ballad as you'll find."
Sting, The Long Beach Press-Telegram, 11/94