We talked to legendary Police guitarist asummersmusic about his new book of short stories.
When you consider the totality of Andy Summers’ body of work, especially if you look past his most well-known output as a member of the Police, it becomes apparent pretty quickly that Summers’ primary passions are guitar and photography. When Summers sat down recently for an hour-long Zoom chat with, he referred multiple times to music as an “obsession” that’s still going strong, almost 70 years after he became inseparable from his first guitar as a child.
Perhaps inevitably, Summers decided along the way to introduce writing to his repertoire. In addition to penning the text for photographer Ralph Gibson’s book of guitar photography, 2005’sin 2006. Fifteen years later, he unveils his first stab at fiction with, a collection of 45 short stories all threaded together by the presence of guitars.
Perennially sharp-tongued over the years, Summers employs a biting prose style in bringing to life a parade of zany characters facing calamity after calamity. At times, one gets the impression that the characters inemerged from the mythical version of America that enchanted Summers’ imagination before he ever set foot in the USA.
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