Pages: 352
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short
rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book.
But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first
time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any
songwriting I had ever done.
And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life,
from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It
is a story very few people know.
I had no interest in writing a traditional autobiographical recitation of everything
that’s ever happened to me. Instead I found myself drawn to exploring specific moments,
certain people and relationships, and particular events which still resonate powerfully
for me as I try to understand the child I was, and the man I became.
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