Broken Music
Broken Music
Author: Sting
Desc: 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. From the Hardcover edition.