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Killing Bono
"The best book I have ever read about trying to make it in the music business" - Elton John
"A fantastic book, which manages the difficult trick of being simultaneously very funny and very sad." - Bob Geldof
"I was Neil McCormick's fan in school. He was much cooler than me, a much better writer and I thought he'd make a much better rock star. I was wrong on one count. He's written a great book" - Bono
Coco Sumner: Forget my dad! Hear my band
Published: 01 Feb 2010
Coco: the tail in the Sting
‘I want to annoy. And I’m going to enjoy it!” is the provocative opening line of Caesar, the catchy debut single from I Blame Coco.
It’s quite an introduction to the musical alter ego of Eliot Pauline Sumner, aka Coco, daughter of Sting (Gordon Sumner) and Trudi Styler.
Just 19 years old, Coco Sumner turns up for her interview on a wet, winter’s morning wearing T-shirt, shorts and hiking boots. “I never get cold,” she sniffs, unconvincingly. Tangly, pre-Raphaelite locks of unwashed-looking hair hang around her face, so that she appears to be talking through a shaggy curtain. Her voice is low and gravelly; her most overused phrase, “uhm, yeah”.
She curls up on a couch, with a paperback of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, with which she says, she is persevering even though she’s not actually enjoying it. “He’s so dogmatic. I’m not sure if it makes me really angry or it or it makes me laugh.” She keeps rubbing her eyes and yawning, as if she is having difficulty waking. Well, its only 11 o’clock. “I went to bed really early last night,” she apologises. “I think I’m suffering from too much sleep.”
Coco couldn’t be any more teenage if Harry Enfield’s scriptwriters had dreamt her up. She has that whole autistic adolescent thing going on,
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