Sting: The Secret Life Of Gordon Sumner by Wensley Clarkson (Blake £15.99)
Tom Doyle, Q, May 1996
TELLINGLY TITLED, this 300-plus-page biography of Sting follows in the tradition of Clarkson's previous unauthorised works on film stars Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise by focusing on the sexual (and in this case drugular) preferences of its subject with tabloid precision.
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