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Article: The sting of the past; Rock music.(Sting's memoirs)(Broken Music: A Memoir)(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 13, 2003
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Desert Rose calling
FEW people know Gordon Sumner. But everyone knows Sting or, rather, his name and his music. The Police left an indelible imprint on the early 1980s, before the immensely talented musician became one of the best-known names in pop music on his own. The Police made "Roxanne" immortal; Sting made "An Englishman in New York". "Broken Music" traces the transformation of Gordon Sumner into Newcastle's greatest rock musician.
A musical family planted the seeds. Music then provided an exit and much needed comfort for the adolescent descending into silence and withdrawal. But it was hardly compatible with the delinquent friends of the early ...
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Article: BROKEN MUSIC
The Spectator;
November 29, 2003 ;
700+ words
...Letting it all hang out BROKEN Music by Sting Simon & Schuster ... though, is ever so simple, and Broken Music is proof of that. At the age of ... Almost uniquely for such a book, Broken Music feels like a form of personal catharsis ...
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