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Article: A Sting in the tale of a rocker.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2003
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Byline: VAL HENNESSY
BROKEN MUSIC by Sting (Simon & Schuster, [pounds sterling]18.99)
WHAT made Sting sing?
Despite the drawback of a terrible voice (his keening, wailing tenor tones once provoked in Elvis Costello an urge to clip him round the ear) and despite parental urgings to get a 'proper job' and settle down as a schoolteacher, he stuck to his teenage conviction that music was his birthright.
Finding an ancient guitar with five rusty strings in his parents' attic, young Sting pounced upon it 'like a starving man in a cake shop, as if it was mine by divine right' and the rest, as any pop aficionado worth their Roxanne single ...