Lyrics by Sting Summary and Reviews
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Book Review: A Study in Psthological Narcissism
Summary: 2 Stars
Sting is a tremendous singer/songwriter. I have every album he ever recorded. I have also been to his concerts; the most recently being The Police 2007 reunion tour; which was extraordinarily good. With that said, he is quite possibly the worst lyricist in the history of rock. For a guy who is so well-read, articulate and bright, his lyrics are almost laughable. I wish he hadn't published what is sure to be an absolute catastrophe for an otherwise stellar career. I guess it just goes to show how blinding self-absorption and narcissism can be... Book Review: Wow.
Summary: 5 Stars
I had no idea he wrote Fortress Around the Heart. What a song. Who's the nob who reviews books from the introduction? Sting, he's no Van Morrison, but he's good. Book Review: What a Pompous Windbag
Summary: 1 Stars
Wow. How rare is it that, without even reading a book, you can tell merely from the author's introduction -- which, presumably, is meant to cast the author in the best possible light -- how truly awful it will be. It is difficult to imagine a more self-absorbed and pedantic "artiste" than Sting, and thank God he doesn't let us down here. Reading the lyrics of such deep chestnuts as "Do Do Do Do Da Da Da Da," "shorn of the very garments that gave [it its] shape in the first place" (Sting's words), is -- to extend The Great Man's metaphor -- a little like spending time against one's will in a nudist colony of very "ordinary" looking people. Emperor's New Clothes, indeed.