- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Dial Press; First Printing edition (Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385336780
- ISBN-13: 978-0385336789
- Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 3 x 21.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,610,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwriting I had ever done.
And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know.
I had no interest in writing a traditional autobiographical recitation of everything that’s ever happened to me. Instead I found myself drawn to exploring specific moments, certain people and relationships, and particular events which still resonate powerfully for me as I try to understand the child I was, and the man I became.
And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know.
I had no interest in writing a traditional autobiographical recitation of everything that’s ever happened to me. Instead I found myself drawn to exploring specific moments, certain people and relationships, and particular events which still resonate powerfully for me as I try to understand the child I was, and the man I became.
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Sting - Broken Music,
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This review is from: Broken Music - A Memoir (Paperback)
This engaging memoir comes from a natural storyteller, whose selection of discourse is first-rate. Each page becomes ever more engrosing as it gives an exquisitely detailed account of the singer songwritters life; from his childhood in Wallsend to his success in the police and beyond.The lack of pictures in the book is more than made up for by his gifted use of prose, as he builds up visual images like a poet, as each page goes by. This book extends well beyond the interest of a man's music alone. An essential read!
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An immensely talented writer,
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This review is from: Broken Music - A Memoir (Paperback)
A beautifully crafted book where Sting searches his often bittersweet childhood and early years, to understand how he became the man he is today.This book is proof, is any were needed, of his immense and formidable talent - not only as a singer-songwriter, but also as a writer. Inclusion of photos would be the only change I would make to this excellent memoir.
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Sting - Broken Music - Interesting Read!,
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This review is from: Broken Music - A Memoir (Paperback)
I found the book hard going for the first chapter but perservered with it and once past the initial chapter I was hooked.
A really good book that shows how hard Sting had to struggle with trying to get his music career off the ground and also looking after a wife and new baby. I saw a different side to Sting and although I admired him before I was even more impressed on his down right determination to get what he wanted. Just goes to show if you want it badly enough, then go out there and get it. I would definitely recommend this book, go for it!
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