### Review βStingβs 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 didnβt condescend to the vul
Broken Music: A Memoir
β Scribed by Sting
- Book ID
- 109280949
- Publisher
- New York : Dial Press,
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 212 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307418432
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 thatβs 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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