Broken Music: Memoirs - Brossura

Sting, Sting

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743450817 ISBN 13: 9780743450812

Casa editrice: Pocket Books, 2004

Riassunto

'I pore over Beatles albums with the same obsessive and forensic scrutiny that I'd applied to Rodgers and Hammerstein, only now I have a guitar. I have an instrument that can reproduce the practical magic of the chord structures and the network of riffs that their songs are built on. And what songs, one after the other, album after album. I learn to play them all, confident that if I persevere, what I can't play immediately will yield its secret eventually. I will reapply the needle of the record player again and again to the bars of music that seem beyond my analysis, like a safecracker picking a lock, until the prize is mine. No school subject ever occupies as much of my time or energy. I'm not claiming that any kind of prescience about the future was at work here, but there was something in the driven and compulsive nature of this obsession that was unusual, something in the unconscious saying, "This is how you escape." "This is how you escape.'''

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Recensione:

'In no way a typical rock-star biography...His life unfolds like a wandering melody seeking to break free of the bleak gravity of his parents' lives...BROKEN MUSIC is Sting's bloodletting and peacemaking with the past...This remarkably candid memoir is meticulously composed and exquisitely detailed. Sting's gift for prose and reverence for language, nearly the equal of his musical gifts, shine on every page. Even when BROKEN MUSIC addresses the quixotic life of an aspiring rock & roller, it reads like literature from a more rarified time when adults didn't condescend to the vulgarities of pop culture'. Parke Puterbaugh, ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE.
‘Sting's excellent book is a well written, intelligent and compelling autobiography...an inspiration...terrific’ Val Hennessey, Daily Mail
A well-written memoir'
The Times 7/12
'Uniquely for such a book, BROKEN MUSIC feels like a form of personal catharsis...raw and candid...Having read it, I feel inclined to go back to his music to see if there was something I'd missed...fascinating and thoughtful' Marcus Berkmann, SPECTATOR
'laced with humour and some touching writing' HOT STARS
'A very personal and touching memoir' ECONOMIST
'Candid. . . he engages one's attention and interest throughout' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘A former English teacher as well as a singer-songwriter, Sting writes with far more verve than your average reminiscing rock musician and takes care to jazz up the linear structure’
It’s an honest account from which he emerges as a likeable and rather ordinary young man...you don’t need to know a lot about his music to find it enjoyable’
Sunday Times 19/09
‘Lucid and well-written...His description of growing up in the fifties and sixties has a powerful sense of time and place, and his recollection of his parents’ relationship is moving and eloquent.’
Mail on Sunday 17/10

L'autore:

Sting is an award-winning singer, songwriter and human rights activist.

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• Editore: Pocket Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743450817
• ISBN 13: 9780743450812
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352