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...Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas & emotions into short rhyming couplets & 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 long passages that were as stimulating & intriguing to me as any songwriting I have 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 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 was drawn to exploring specific moments, certain people & relationships, & particular events which still resonate powerfully for me as I try to understand the child I was, & the man I became.