Stewart Copeland

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Stewart Copeland is perhaps best known as the drummer for The Police, but he’s also had a successful solo career as a composer, authoring a prolific series of film and television scores, video game soundtracks, opera, and ballet. His latest project is Police Beyond Borders, a reinterpretation of the seminal 80s band’s classic songs with diverse interpretations and artist representation from South Africa, India, Japan, China, Canada, the U.K., and more. Stewart joins Rhett from his studio in Los Angeles to talk about working in service of art, his career with The Police, and what it feels like to ride the top of the wave. Stewart and Rhett talk about life as a working musician in the age of AI, and why selling out isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Police Beyond Borders will be released on August 18. Pre-save the album here. Stewart Copeland Follow Stewart on IG @stewart_copeland Rhett Miller website Follow Rhett on IG @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive produced by Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Distributed in partnership with Osiris Media. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with guests Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy, The Milk Carton Kids, and more. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIMUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life. I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.0	He started on and he ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God. That's when it got wheels off. Stuart Copeland is best known as the
0:26.6	Drummer for the Police, the rock band, not the institution of public safekeeping.
0:33.6	He is widely regarded as one of the maybe 10 best drummers of all time.
0:41.3	Certainly for me growing up in the 1980s, he was a hero, an enigmatic, terrifying rock and roll god.
0:52.3	So when he appeared on my itinerary as a guest for wheels off i got a little scared
1:00.5	a little nervous not gonna lie but guess what you're never going to believe this or maybe you've
1:07.9	already guessed super Super cool dude.
1:11.4	Super nice guy.
1:13.0	Couldn't have been kinder, funnier,
1:15.7	more generous with his time and his wisdom.
1:19.0	So erudite and well-spoken.
1:21.8	I can't even believe that I just spend a half an hour
1:24.5	having laughs and conversation with the great Stuart Copeland,
1:28.8	you guys.
1:29.9	This is definitely a high point for me, certainly as an interviewer, but as a rock and roll fan,
1:37.1	not going to lie.
1:37.9	I just, I got very lucky to do this, to have this conversation today with him. This Wheels Off series is truly the
1:48.8	gift that keeps on giving for me. I think you guys are going to enjoy this conversation as much
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