The words and music of Sting
By: Christopher Gable.
Series: The Praeger singer-songwriter collection
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780275993603
Subjects: Sting -- (Musician) -- Criticism and interpretation; Rock music -- History and criticism
Description: "The Words and Music of Sting subdivides Sting's life and works into rough periods of creative activity and offers a fantastic opportunity to view Sting's many stylistic changes within a coherent general framework. After analyzing Sting's musical output album by album and song by song, author Christopher Gable sums up Sting's accomplishments and places him on the continuum of influential singer-songwriters, showing how he differs from and relates to other artists of the same period. A discography, filmography, and bibliography conclude the work."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography, and index.
Table of contents: title: The Police. Outlandos d'amour ; Reggatta de blanc ; Zenyatta mondatta ;  Ghost in the machine; title: Synchronicity to superstardom; title: Going solo. The dream of the blue turtles ; Bring on the night; title: Mother and father. Nothing like the sun ; The soul cages; title: Return. Ten summoner's tales ; Fields of gold and demolition man ;  Mercury falling; title: Hope and terror. Brand new day ; All this time ; Sacred love.