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[didierleclair]

Bob, forever!

[rockingreads]

Sting: Broken Music: A Memoir (2005)

Maybe the most surprising thing about Gordon 'Sting' Sumner's Broken Music is that it's not 800-pages-long, but a surprisingly succinct, elegant memoir that actually left me wanting more instead of begging for him to stop.

It's almost as though Sting subjugated his considerable (and not unjustified) ego by applying his mastery of pop music songcraft to his prose, and thus kept these memoirs refreshingly focused and engaging, when we all know he could have easily rambled on for as long as he pleased.

Instead, Sting candidly opens up about his parents' broken marriage and its traumatic effect on his upbringing, before detailing his long musical apprenticeship with a number of pub-crawling weekend jazz groups (most notably Last Exit) while holding down odd jobs ranging from bus conductor to school teacher.

And when he finally reached the big time with The Police and flourished as a hit songwriter, Sting provides an intimate insider's view of their five-album career, as well as his often fraught personal and alchemical creative relationship with bandmates Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers.

Broken Music winds down with the band's breakup in 1986, which coincided with Sting's parents' deaths in quick succession, thus neatly capping this particular story arc ... again, just like only a great songwriter can.

But that obviously means there's still much more to tell, should Sting ever decided to write about his wildly successful solo career, eventual touring reunion with The Police, and his rarefied middle age as rock royalty, in general.

After all, his is one of popular music's most famous names ... well, nicknames.

Featured Records:

The Police: Ghost in the Machine (1981)

Sting: The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985)

Sting: … Nothing Like the Sun (1987)

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[shampoolistic]

I love reagge music bc the songs are like “we have to break the chains of colonialism through unity 🤝💪….because my girlfriend is so so beautiful 🥰🥰🥰 peace love and weed”

[mannytoodope]

[morerogue]

Sugar Sugar

[gcik]

[janiiq]

[xxzackiexx]

soja :)

[boogietitia]

[nigga-2004]

"As pessoas que tentam deixar esse mundo pior não tiram um dia de folga, então porque eu vou tirar?"

–Bob Marley

[ckut-latinmusicmondays]

Boom !

[mannytoodope]

Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger

[fereyci]

los aguas aguas

[fuck-logic-vd]

O meu erro foi crer que estar ao teu lado bastaria.