Broken Music
Broken Music by Sting is a 2003 Science & Technology book written by TED speaker Sting, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "How I started writing songs again" (2014), 2.8M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 11 years before the talk.
- Edition: Diane Pub Co, 2003 · 345 pages
The paired TED talk
How I started writing songs again (2014), the TED talk by Sting.
From the publisher
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.