Article: Koans From Newcastle: The Story of Sting

BROKEN MUSIC

A Memoir

By Sting

Dial. 337 pp. $26

Celebrity autobiographies are not worried about you. A book like Sting's "Broken Music" generally is written for those who already believe the songwriter is as great as he thinks he is. If nonbelievers just happen to pick up "Broken Music" and, you know, accidentally finish it, that's just gravy. These nonbelievers are likely to comfort themselves anyway by telling friends that, of course, Sting is smarmy and pompous like everyone thought. This

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