Ten Summoner's Tales
11 videos • 12,070 views • by PrettyBluePeople Here's what Sting had to say about this album in his lyrics' book: "In 1992 we moved the family out to the country, to a run-down manor house built in the sixteenth century that needed some care and attention. The gardens were beautiful, and walking in them was like walking into a dream. It was called Lake House. "I felt inspired to write, and, for the first time in years, with a genuine spirit of happiness. "There were no grand concepts, no plan, except to have fun telling stories in as many diverse styles and moods as I could think of. It is this carefree spirit that pervades the album and helped it to become one of my most popular records. "The title was a mischievous conceit linking my name, Sumner, with the scurrilous character in Geoffery Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. There was nothing more to it than that, and subtitling the first and last songs 'Prologue' and 'Epilogue' was just further mischief. 'The album artwork does include the first picture of me with a lute, something that would become significant to me in the years to follow."