S1E12: Stewart Copeland

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music. In episode 12 Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt speak to Stewart Copeland.

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0:00.0	So I hope you can hear me because my kids in the other room doing a cello lesson on Zoom.
0:05.6	That's the kind of family I'm in now.
0:07.4	Well at least it's the next room.
0:09.4	Yeah.
0:12.4	Well that's good. And so who we got today with speaking to Stuart today?
0:15.8	Are we? Stuart Copeland. We are amazing. I'm quite excited actually. The first time I ever saw
0:20.2	Stuart Copeland I walked straight out. I think I mentioned this story on one of our early episodes. It was, I went down in the open hanker and he was, they were playing a band called the police and I put my head on.
0:30.0	The open hanker, the open wanker, that's another place. I've been there.
0:37.0	That's a jazz club.
0:40.0	And I looked in and I thought, nah, it's rubbish.
0:43.8	And we walked out.
0:45.2	So, and then he turned out to be one of the,
0:47.8	you know, one of the best bands in the world.
0:49.6	One of the best, yeah.
0:50.7	There's a rumor that my old mate Jake Le Mezier taught him how to play reggae but I'm not going to bring that up
0:55.6	What I want to talk about is the fact that his dad was actually CIA station chief in Beirut
1:01.4	Really? Yeah well let's get going. Welcome to the
1:04.8	rock on tours.
1:07.0	Well, it's a big tune for sure. I actually wrote that originally for Tina Turner.
1:11.6	Of course, I had gone and found Joni Mitchell down in Florida
1:14.5	and brought her back.
1:15.3	Well, people forget about Bowie is that he was such a kind man.
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