Sting has successfully established himself as one of the most
important singer-songwriters in Western popular music over the past
twenty years. His affinity for collaborative work and disparate
musical styles has pushed his music into an astonishing array of
contexts, but no matter what the style or who the collaborator,
Sting's voice always remains distinct, and this fact has earned him
success amongst a correspondingly broad audience. Songs from his
period with The Police, such as "Roxanne," "Don't Stand So Close to
Me," "Every Breath You Take," and "King of Pain," helped establish
his reputation as a sophisticated craftsman; however, it is in his
solo career that he has truly come into his own as a songwriter,
and several of his solo works, including "Fragile," "All This
Time," "Fields of Gold," "Desert Rose," and "Moon Over Bourbon
Street," are modern classics. Aside from his commercial success,
Sting is also interesting for the use of recurring themes in his
lyrics (such as family relationships, love, war, spirituality, and
work) and for his use of jazz and world music to illustrate or work
against the "meaning" of a song. Sting's life also sheds light on
his music, as his working-class roots in Newcastle, England are
never far removed from his international superstardom. Throughout
his life, he has been musically open-minded and inquisitive, always
seeking out new styles and often incorporating them into his
compositions. 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 byalbum 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.
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