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.