Sting

Focusing on special moments that have resonated throughout his career, the singer explores the early part of his life from childhood to adolescence, right up to the eve of his success with the Police, in his "New York Times"-bestselling memoir.

Sting and The Police have been global stars ever since their first hit with Roxanne. Now, for the first time, Sting has collected his song lyrics since 1978 and publishes them in a handsome hardback volume. LYRICS is a comprehensive collection of Sting's song lyrics spanning his entire career from the early days of the The Police through to Sacred Love, his latest album. Song lyrics are presented in album order, and coupled with newly-written commentary by Sting about the lyrics, the records, and his career as a songwriter in general. The book is enhanced by wonderful photographs from every period. This beautifully-produced hardback - featuring a two-colour designed interior over its 270 pages - is the ideal keepsake for the artists' fans. Timed to follow the wave of excitement following the internationally sold-out reunion tour,

Those expecting to find lurid tales of rock & roll excess with the Police in Sting''s candidly written, minutely detailed autobiography, BROKEN MUSIC, should probably look elsewhere; the only drug taking here is courtesy of a Brazilian religious ceremony. The experience prompts hallucinogenic recollections on the part of the author and forms the basis of the book''s journey through a childhood fraught with guilty silences (he catches his mother kissing one of his father''s employees), his first sexual and musical experiments, a prolonged period of struggle and penury as a young musician with a wife and child to support (his recounting of the search for living quarters in London is particularly chastening), and the first tentative performances of the Police. The career of the latter is condensed into a few pages; Sting appears to be less concerned with conveying the pleasures of a lifestyle complete with jaunts to the Amazon, country houses, and rock & roll hedonism than he is with recounting the long, intriguing journey he''s made to get there.

Sting rememora, a partir de la experiencia con una droga visionaria del Amazonas, la primera mitad de su vida, con una prosa depurada que provocará en el lector la sensación de estar escuchándole en

Durante la mayor parte de mi vida me he dedicado a escribir letra de canciones, a condensar mis ideas y emociones en pareados y ponerles música. En cambio, nunca había considerado la posibilidad de escribir un libro hasta que llegue a la reflexiva edad de los cincuenta.