Description
| Product ID: | 9780385338653 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Broken Music |
| Subtitle: | A Memoir |
| Authors: | Author: Sting |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Popular music, Rock & Pop music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Biography: arts & entertainment, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Memoirs |
| Description: | “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. |
| Imprint Name: | Bantam Doubleday Dell |
| Publisher Name: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2005-01-25 |