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Sting and The Police

Author : Aaron J West
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810884917
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Sting and The Police written by Aaron J West and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An excellent look at how the Police accomplished success . . . West is especially good at examining how the band used the nascent MTV to define themselves.” ―Publishers Weekly During the 1980s, The Police were one of the biggest bands in the world. Yet after only five albums—and at the peak of their popularity—they disbanded, and Sting began a solo career that made him a global pop star. Today, artists from Puff Daddy to Gwen Stefani credit The Police and Sting as major influences on their own work. In this book, Aaron J. West explores the cultural and musical impact of Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, and Sting. West details the distinctive hybrid character of The Police’s musical output, which would also characterize Sting’s post-Police career. Sting’s long-lived solo career embodies the power of the artful appropriation of musical styles, while capitalizing on the modern realities of pop music consumption. The Police—and Sting in particular—were pioneers in music video, modern label marketing, global activism, and the internationalization of pop music. Sting and The Police: Walking in Their Footsteps is a feast for fans—and by placing the band within its various musical, cultural, commercial, and historic contexts, it’s also fascinating reading for anyone interested in global popular music culture.

Stewart Copeland - Drumming in the Police and Beyond

Author : JOE. BERGAMINI
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781705154021
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Stewart Copeland - Drumming in the Police and Beyond written by JOE. BERGAMINI and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miscellaneous Percussion Music - Mixed Levels

Fretted and Moaning

Author : Andy Summers
Publisher : Rocket 88
ISBN 13 : 9781910978665
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Fretted and Moaning written by Andy Summers and published by Rocket 88. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of these tales are drawn from real life or are things I have heard about in the dark corners of various backstage dressing rooms. It's hard to be a musician, but for some of us there is simply no choice. Meanwhile, there's writing about it.

One Train Later

Author : Andy Summers
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429909293
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book One Train Later written by Andy Summers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The train jerks to a halt, and as I get out at Oxford Circus, Stewart gets out with me. We look at each other, laugh, and make the standard remark about it being a small world. But this is the brilliant collision, one train later and it might all have turned out differently." In this extraordinary memoir, world-renowned guitarist Andy Summers provides a revealing and passionate account of a life dedicated to music. From his first guitar at age thirteen and his early days on the English music scene to the ascendancy of his band, the Police, Summers recounts his relationships and encounters with the Big Roll Band, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, the Animals, John Belushi, and others, all the while proving himself a master of telling detail and dramatic anecdote. But, of course, the early work is only part of the story, and Andy's account of his role as guitarist for the Police---a gig that was only confirmed by a chance encounter with drummer Stewart Copeland on a London train---has been long-awaited by music fans worldwide. The heights of fame that the Police achieved have rarely been duplicated, and the band's triumphs were rivaled only by the personal chaos that such success brought about, an insight never lost on Summers in the telling. Complete with never-before-published photos from Summers's personal collection, One Train Later is a constantly surprising and poignant memoir, and the work of a world-class musician and a first-class writer.

Sting

Author : Paul Carr
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238894
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Sting written by Paul Carr and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Sumner was born in a mainly working-class area of North Tyneside, England, in 1951. Decades later, we would come to know him as Sting, one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Sting was the lead singer of the Police from 1977 to 1984 before launching a hugely successful solo career. In Sting:From Northern Skies to Fields of Gold, popular music scholar Paul Carr argues that the foundations of Sting’s creativity and drive for success were established by his birthplace, with vestiges of his “Northern Englishness” continuing to emerge in his music long after he left his hometown. Carr frames Sting’s creative impetus and output against the real, imagined, and idealized places he has occupied. Focusing on the sometimes-blurry borderlines between nostalgia, facts, imagination, and memories—as told by Sting, the people who knew (and know) him, and those who have written about him—Carr investigates the often complex resonance between local boy Gordon Sumner and the star the world knows as Sting. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the formation of the definitive line-up of the Police, this is the first book to examine the relationship between Sting’s working class background in Newcastle, the life he has consequently lived, and the creativity and inspiration behind his music.

Broken Music

Author : Sting
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 030741843X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Broken Music written by Sting and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.” —Rolling Stone 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.

Lyrics

Author : Sting
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0307421996
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Lyrics written by Sting and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first Police album, Outlandos D'Amour, through Sacred Love, here are the collected lyrics written by Sting, along with his commentary. “Publishing my lyrics separately from their musical accompaniment is something that I’ve studiously avoided until now. The two, lyrics and music, have always been mutually dependent, in much the same way as a mannequin and a set of clothes are dependent on each other; separate them, and what remains is a naked dummy and a pile of cloth. Nevertheless, the exercise has been an interesting one, seeing perhaps for the first time how successfully the lyrics survive on their own, and inviting the question as to whether song lyrics are in fact poetry or something else entirely. And while I’ve never seriously described myself as a poet, the book in your hands, devoid as it is of any musical notation, looks suspiciously like a book of poems. So it seems I am entering, with some trepidation, the unadorned realm of the poet. I have set out my compositions in the sequence they were written and provided a little background when I thought it might be illuminating. My wares have neither been sorted nor dressed in clothes that do not belong to them; indeed, they have been shorn of the very garments that gave them their shape in the first place. No doubt some of them will perish in the cold cruelty of this new environment, and yet others may prove more resilient and become perhaps more beautiful in their naked state. I can’t predict the outcome, but I have taken this risk knowingly and, while no one in their right mind should ever attempt to set “The Waste Land” to music, in the hopeful words of T. S. Eliot, These fragments I have shored against my ruins.” —Sting, from the Introduction

Walking on the Moon

Author : Chris Campion
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470627832
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Walking on the Moon written by Chris Campion and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching look at the rise of one of the most recognizable names in pop music -The Police The Police have sold more than 50 million albums, made Rolling Stone's Greatest Artists of All Time list, and finished a triumphant world reunion tour in 2008. Now British journalist Chris Campion draws on extensive research and new interviews to trace the inside saga of this iconic group, including the unorthodox business strategies employed by manager Miles Copeland that took them to the top and the intense rivalry that drove Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland to split at the height of their success in the 1980s. The first comprehensive biography on the band and its music Based on extensive research and new interviews with people close to the band Traces the group and its members from their earliest days to the present Includes 26 black-and-white photographs Whether you've been a fan of The Police for decades or are discovering their music for the first time, Walking on the Moon will give you new insights into the personalities behind this unique band and their role in the rise of 80s New Wave rock.

There's a Little Black Spot on the Sun Today

Author :
Publisher : NorthSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 9780735842380
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book There's a Little Black Spot on the Sun Today written by and published by NorthSouth Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sting’s evocative lyrics from "King of Pain" are powerfully transformed into minimalistic illustrations by Sven Völker, who gives voice to his son's journey from illness to health in this extraordinary and deeply moving collaboration that explores pain’s sadness, beauty, and wonder.

The King of Sting

Author : Craig Glazer
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602392498
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The King of Sting written by Craig Glazer and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Glazer was robbed while buying marijuana for his fraternity brothers, he decided to get even. He and partner Donald Woodbeck set up a series of fake stings across the country that netted them a fortune. It was a dangerous double life, one that does not lead to a happy ending.

Police Confidential

Author :
Publisher : Beech Tree Paperback Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Police Confidential written by and published by Beech Tree Paperback Book. This book was released on 1986 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sting and the Police

Author : Ray Nikart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345321794
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Sting and the Police written by Ray Nikart and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sting and the Police

Author : Jim Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881762280
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Sting and the Police written by Jim Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Secret Police Man

Author : Henry Padovani
Publisher : Pen Press
ISBN 13 : 9781907172830
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Secret Police Man written by Henry Padovani and published by Pen Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts a lifetime on the London music scene from punk and the author's time since The Police.

Sting

Author : Wensley Clarkson
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560252269
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Sting written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1999-03-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling biographer of Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson now examines the life of Gordon Sumner, a.k.a. Sting, from his troubled boyhood marked by domestic turmoil to his rise to the top of the charts--first as lead singer of The Police, then as a respected and top-selling solo artist--along the way touching on his failure as a box-office star and his involvement in environmental activism.

Police Complete

Author : Police
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780881883619
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Police Complete written by Police and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1982-09-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). A handsome volume that contains 63 songs through to the Synchronicity album. Contains many beautiful black and white photographs. Songs include: Bring on the Night * Driven to Tears * King of Pain * Roxanne * Shadows in the Rain * When the World Is Running Down * and more.

I'll Be Watching You

Author : Andy Summers
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
ISBN 13 : 9783822813058
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book I'll Be Watching You written by Andy Summers and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s, The Police went on tour accompanied by a photographer who documented the band behind the scenes in a series of candid and striking black and white photos. This talented photographer also happened to be the bands guitarist, Andy Summers. Containing more than 600 photos and filled with diary-style entries, ""Ill Be Watching You"" is a sumptuous volume beating with musical energy, nostalgia, and atmospheric beauty. Taschen