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=Introduction=
 
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Gordon Summer was born in a mainly working-class area of North Tyneside, England, in 1951. Decades later, we would come to know him as Sting, one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Sting was the lead singer of The Police from 1977 to 1984 before launching a hugely successful solo career. In Sting: From Northern Skies to Fields of Gold, popular music scholar Paul Carr argues that the foundations of Sting’s creativity and drive for success were established by his birthplace, with vestiges of his “Northern Englishness” continuing to emerge in his music long after he left the area.
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This is a paperback book with 96 pages. It's almost without any text (there are a few quotes from [[The Police]]'s members), "just" showing LOTS of photos from [[1979]].
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Carr frames Sting’s creative impetus and output against the real, imagined, and idealized places he has occupied. Focusing on the sometimes-blurry borderlines between nostalgia, facts, imagination, and memories—as told by Sting, the people who knew (and know) him, and those who have written about him—Carr investigates the often complex resonance between local boy Gordon Sumner and the star the world knows as Sting. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the first performance of the definitive line up of The Police, Sting: From Northern Skies to Fields of Gold is the first book to examine the relationship between Sting’s working class background in Newcastle, the life he has consequently lived, and the creativity and inspiration behind his music. 
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=Quotations and trivia=
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Paul Carr is reader in popular music analysis at the University of South Wales. He has worked as a professional musician with the James Taylor Quartet and former Miles Davis sideman Bob Berg.=Quotations and trivia=
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* an ad from NME - June 28, [[1980]]
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There's also an identical American edition (the 2nd photo on this page) - except for its different cover. It's from [[1981]] (Proteus Books, ISBN 0-906071-60-7).
  
 
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[[Category:Books (The Police)|Police Released, The]]

Latest revision as of 02:10, 29 January 2024


Police Released
ThePoliceReleased.jpg
ThePoliceReleasedUSA.jpg
Author: no text - no author
Country: UK
Language: English
Publisher: Big O Publishing
Publication date: around June / July 1980
ISBN: ISBN 0-905664-27-2

Introduction

This is a paperback book with 96 pages. It's almost without any text (there are a few quotes from The Police's members), "just" showing LOTS of photos from 1979.

Quotations and trivia

  • an ad from NME - June 28, 1980

1980 06 28 NME The Police Released ad.jpg

Editions

There's also an identical American edition (the 2nd photo on this page) - except for its different cover. It's from 1981 (Proteus Books, ISBN 0-906071-60-7).

See also

This section needs more information.

External links and reviews

This section needs more information.

References

source: book, magazine clippings (publication date)

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