<p>One of the most successful artists in rock history, Sting is often perceived as an intensely private, overly serious do-gooder. Many biographers have tried to get beyond the image, but Jim Berryman is the only one to have written about Sting from the perspective of a forty-year friendship. Here, he reveals the roots of Sting’s incredible climb to international fame and fortune. Reaching back into the early 1960s, when Sting and Jim were schoolboys, Jim shows a side to the singer that has never been seen before.</p>

Sting and I: The Totally Hilarious Story of Life as Sting's Best Mate

BERRYMAN, James

Humor & Entertainment

John Blake

Jim Berryman met Sting more than two decades before he was "An Englishman in New York," when he was just Gordon Sumner—fellow reluctant Newcastle schoolboy. Both had a cynical sense of humor and a shared sense of bewilderment at the incomprehensible antics of their Catholic teachers, forming the basis for a friendship that would last even as they left the institution and took radically different paths. As Sting became enormously successful, his friend realized that the blunt, well-grounded fellow slacker he used to know still lurked under the popular public perception of the crusading superstar. Jim reveals for the first time the roots of Sting's incredible climb to international fame and fortune, a story that's intertwined with Jim's own sometimes tough struggle to make his way, related with humor and irreverence. The only person to write about Sting with the perspective of a 40-year friendship, Jim shows a side to Sting that will be a revelation to even his most ardent fans. 

Sting and I

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

In this authorized biography, James Berrymore writes about his lifelong friendship with the rock star Sting, from their school days onwards.

A Sting in the tale

Mirage

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Sting and I: The Totally Hilarious Story of Life as Sting's Best Mate

Sting and I

A Sting in the tale