The last time I cried? Just now, thinking about MY DAD.

It's not exactly rock 'n' roll, but the woman who really changed Sting's life - sorry, Trudie - was the Queen Mother. Young Gordon Sumner, dressed in his Sunday best almost 50 years ago, was mesmerised as her Rolls-Royce swished past the front door of his street in Wallsend, North Tyneside. The Sumners were poor, working-class Geordies; his parents Audrey, a hairdresser, and Ernie, a milkman. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]