Broken Music: A Memoir by Sting

Author:Sting [Sting]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: England, Entertainment & Performing Arts, General, Singers, Personal Memoirs, Rock musicians, Music, Musicians, Rock, Biography & Autobiography, Genres & Styles, Composers & Musicians, Biography
ISBN: 9780385336789
Publisher: New York : Dial Press, 2003.
Published: 2003-10-28T13:24:29.574000+00:00

The next time that you want me to listen to your music, please make sure you include the actual cassette along with the case, it’s difficult to judge the musical merits of an empty box.

Best Wishes

Dave Dee

Gerry and I are too embarrassed to send another tape.

One of the agencies Frances sends a tape to is the Sherry/Copeland agency The latter name will come to play a large part in the rest of my life, but on this occasion we get no response.

It is early evening and I am standing in the public phone box in Heaton Hall Road. I’ve just put the phone down after speaking with Frances, who is in London. I am staring at my image in the tiny square mirror above the receiver. I suddenly look older than my twenty-four years. She has just told me that in seven months from now I’m going to become a father, and if ever there was a time in my life to assess the reality of my feelings, then this was it. But I am too stunned and confused to be able to do so. I am still staring into the mirror, wondering how I should feel? In hindsight one of the most wonderful events of my life has been foretold, the birth of my first child, a miracle gifted to his mother and I, and yet at the time how could I have foreseen this? A smattering of rain has started to fall outside, but as I walk back to the house, nothing seems real anymore, my life, my ambition, the bricks on the wall, the slates on the roof, or the rain on the pavement. I am watching myself from a great distance, and I have nothing within me that I can recognize as an emotion.

I will drive to London as often as I can on weekends when there are no gigs, trying to sketch in the lines and colors of our possible future and then drive the three hundred miles north and manage to get back for the school bell at nine on Monday morning. I am torn between my dreams of escape and an impending reality that threatens either to entrap me or vault me into another unknown universe. But there is a stubborn streak of fatalism in me, a feeling that the die has been cast and that I will deal with whatever fate has in store for me. Frances, against her better judgment, eventually agrees to marry me, and now I have to make this work, I can’t lose courage now.

While a couple of record company reps do come and see us in Newcastle, whatever lures or bait we dangle in front of them in the way of songs, virtuosity, passion, and commitment, we don’t really get a bite. They sniff around us cursorily but nothing more. There is something else in the wind as well. Our push to be recognized in the big city will coincide with a sea change in the musical taste of the nation.

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