Sting reads..but not tediously

[Joe Allonby]

Yes, Gordon Sumner was a middle school English teacher. Makes that "Don't
Stand So CLose to Me" song a little more disturbing (though no less
insipid).

On 2/13/08, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Mark Kohut schrieb:
> >
> > >What else has he been up to? Reading, of course. He's got a few books
> going including Alex Ross' "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth
> Century," Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day" and the latest by J.M.
> Coetzee among them.
>
> seem to recall from a Rolling Stone article back in the day
> (or maybe, cooler yet, from Creem magazine...?) that Sting
> in his early days carried a copy of Joyce's _Ulysses_ everywhere.
> He's also one of the featured personalities on the "Hooked on Books"
> posters, or was at one time...in fact, he may even have been an
> English teacher once?
> (the Sting nickname, he said in the same interview, came
> from a yellow and black striped t-shirt he used to wear)
> now everybody...."Roxanne..."
>
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