Broken Music: A MemoirHaving 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. |
Contents
1 | 1 |
2 | 49 |
3 | 67 |
4 | 100 |
5 | 142 |
6 | 166 |
7 | 193 |
8 | 202 |
10 | 227 |
11 | 243 |
12 | 254 |
13 | 287 |
14 | 308 |
15 | 324 |
Epilogue | 330 |
Dedication | |
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