Broken Music: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385338653)

"Sting's gift for prose and reverence for language, nearly the equal of his musical gifts, shine on every page. Even when Broken Music addresses the quixotic life of an aspiring rock & roller, it reads like literature from a more rarified time when adults didn't condescend to the vulgarities of pop culture." --Rolling Stone

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.

Author: Sting
ISBN-10: 0385338651
ISBN-13: 9780385338653
Publisher: Dial Press
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2005
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.50w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 02/01/2005 pg. 30