NEW Police Book "Walking on the Moon" by Chris Campion

[sockii]

Not really sure how I feel about it as it takes information that's already widely known and sort of twists it a little bit to make it seem the the original tales have a little more to them than may meet the eye.

So did this guy actually DO any original research, or did he instead just wax on scandalously about things other people already wrote about?!

[giovanni]

Hm, interesting, another book for my collection...

Anyway, I'm curious to read what the guy has to say; knowing something from the inside, it could be interesting for me to compare what I know and what is written in this book; of course we all are aware that the face of a band hides what's really 'behind the desk' (positively and negatively), and a journalist has always some hidden weapons in order to 'shock' the reader, that's part of the game when you are famous. You will never know wether it's true or not what's written in the book, and whatever might be written that can 'disturb' the band & their managements/collaborators, I'm sure that they are more than used to it.

But anyway....another book for my collection!

Ps.: by the way, don't ask me why but lately I have received some e-mail from unknown reader of my book about The Police, with lots of good words and very good vibes; it's weird that they come now, years after it was released...maybe a review has come out, or somebody talked about it; it's good to know anyway that it keeps on being well received by the fans. Nobody will never know if I tell the truth or not about many stories included, same as the book of Campion; you know me so you may probably trust what I write...but what about the readers who don't know anything about my kind of relation with the three members? One day Stewart told me: 'when you write a book, THAT becomes the truth, the facts that you will write about will become real stories, even if you have invented them , or gave a different intrepretation'.

And we all know what happened here with the 'reutered' post...

[dufmanno]

So true.
I just chuckled because this fellow seems so intent on portraying Sting as a ego fueled malcontent and Andy as a disconnected ice king I wondered if he realized that some of his feelings were coming across in the pages he wrote. I will say that to me, he seemed to be somewhat sympathetic toward SC. Loved the chapters that covered Miles and the IRS years. Some of those bands provided the soundtrack to my youth.
And on an entirely different note- You wrote a book too? Sorry for my lack of prior knowledge on this bit.

[ltwoman]

And on an entirely different note- You wrote a book too? Sorry for my lack of prior knowledge on this bit.

Gio, dufmanno is not the only one unaware of your book. Is it still available??? I'd rather read your's....

[TOWOS]

Ok!

I like to give credit when credit is due, and also discredit when discredit is due.
The book arrived - I was too late to cancel it. I started it. Many things, including quotes, in the first chapter or 2 I remember from my teenage scrapbooks replete with articles from Sounds, MM, and NME (which I naturally knew by heart).
My heartfelt empathy for DM. I wanted to read it myself, I deserve this.
Then I got to Stewart. OK. "Nepotism is a birthright for the Copelands" or something like that - DANG! REVERSE Nepotism, more like.
Sonja Kristina, Danish? Last time I checked, she was British.

I put down the damn thing.
Well-researched, my rear-end.

Beg for forgiveness - shoulda listened and spared my $18.

[smax]

nothing to add, i just wanted to applaud the critical writing which has gone on in this thread and the use of the word "Dang".

[TOWOS]

I use DANG!for kick in the teeth effect - also "Uhhh! BIg no-no"

[stevel]

Giovanni I'd love to read your book also. Is there an English version?
Best,

Steve Leicester

[luddite lady]

[quote="stevel"]Giovanni I'd love to read your book also. Is there an English version?
Best,

Steve Leicester[/quote]

I'd love to read it too, even if there is no English translation. Given the topic and the author, I'd be willing to retrieve my little used Italian from the recesses of my brain and work my way through the book. Is it still available for sale somewhere?

Socki, you might be able to get a used coy of the Campion book sooner than you thought. TOWOS looks ready to recoop a little of her loses.

[steerpike]

Quite a large part of the book (by Chris Campion) is available via Google Books:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ODs8IE ... q=&f=false

[empty]

Sorry for opening a hornet's nest folks. I got the book for free.

*gulp*

A music journo friend of mine who I respect threw it my way because he knows I love da man. And yes, there are still good thorough, well spoken journalists out there. You just have to hunt for them....

[TOWOS]

Nah, Empty... I read other things CC has written and they're cool. He doesn't seem to have put a lot of effort in this one - or at least verifying the sources, but it happens to many a writer, especially when they're in a rush under the publisher's pressure.

There are pics I don't have or know, so I think I'm not going to part with it, though... hehehe.

[njperry]

I think I will follow Sockii's lead and wait for a used or remainder copy. Not worth buying new in light of what I am hearing.

[CatherineS]

Have you guys looked at the website for the English version of Henry's book? You can't get much more well-researched than from someone who was actually there!

I cut and pasted this from the "look inside" sampler, which includes a great shot of a very young Stewart :

"I’ve got lots of stories to tell about those days, especially since most of the books that I’ve read about bands and London during those ‘new wave’ days haven’t always been accurate. Not surprising really, since most of the people who wrote them weren’t there! And then, they wrote them from an external point of view, and well after the fact when they already knew the end of the story. It’s just not the same…

So I started to jot down and retell some of the memories that shaped my life. I wrote them just from my viewpoint and they only engage myself. And if their endings aren’t always bright, that’s how I lived them.

All that I can say is that at the time, we didn’t yet know the end of the stories. We were struggling, and we just wanted to get through. And every time, and in every situation, we were simply doing our best.

And, every time, we believed it was forever…"

And if the story from someone who was there and speaking from the heart is not enough, he goes on into much detail of life in London/Europe during those punk and new wave years, including his intimate stories from the many years he spent working with Miles at IRS, right through to coming full circle a few years back when he got Stewart and Sting back together again to play on his album - a precursor to the Police reunion????

Don't know why I can't paste a link to it, but this is the website address:
[url]www.secretpolicemanbook.com[/url]

[TOWOS]

So there IS an English translation!