"I'm a fan of the Police, and I think Sting is a great musician. I also am a musician, and I thought it'd be nice to read how a musician goes from nothing to greatness.
Well, it starts when he's a young boy in New Castle, England, and it goes through him getting his first guitar, him hearing the Beatles for the first time, what makes him want to become a musician, how he eventually does become a minorly successful musician in England and supports himself as an English teacher all the way up to him finally reaching success in London with the hit single Roxanne.
It's a pretty interesting story; some parts of it are pretty slow. If you can get through the first chapter, you can get through the entire book. I can identify with Sting in a lot of ways. Like I remember my first guitar and how many hours I sat in my room playing, and he said the same thing. He sat there for five hours a day trying to figure out the Beatles songs. Well, I was listening to Sublime - that's my favorite band - so I can identify in that way.
The part I like best is that he explains in detail about all of the hardships he faced before he actually made it. I think there's a lot of filler in the book, stuff that he didn't really need to put in, lots of descriptions of things that aren't really important to the story. It's actually - it wasn't the most exciting story. It's not the typical sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
I would give this book 3 stars because it gives you all of the information you want, but it's just not that exciting."
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