Stewart Copeland

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Music

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Famed drummer for the Police and composer Stewart Copeland has one of the more fascinating bios in modern music. His father was a founding member of the CIA and his mom worked in British Intelligence.

After playing in the successful UK prog rock band Curved Air in the mid 70s, Stewart started a new band called the Police with bassist and lead singer, Sting—and eventually guitarist Andy Summers. Over the next decade the Police would go on to become one of the top-selling rock bands of all time, selling over 75 million records.

Last year Stewart released the book, “Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries,” which includes his personal notes dating back to the band’s formation in 1976 through 1978, when they started to take off.

On today’s episode Bruce Headlam talks to Stewart Copeland about the first time he saw Sting play and how he was able to successfully lure him into his then non-existent band. Stewart also explains why he and Sting eventually had a musical falling out, and how the Arabic rhythms he heard growing up influenced his highly lauded drumming style.

You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite songs from Stewart Copeland and The Police HERE.

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1:07.0	Drummer and composer Stuart Copeland has one of the more fascinating bios in modern music. His father was a founding
1:16.0	member of the CIA and his mom worked in British intelligence. He grew up the youngest of four kids
1:21.7	living for a time in the hills outside of Beirut, before attending boarding schools in England.
1:27.0	After playing in the successful UK Prague Rock Band Curved Air in the mid-70s, Stuart started a new band called The Police, with bassist and lead singer
1:36.2	Sting and eventually guitarist Andy Summers. Over the next decade the Police would go on to become
1:42.1	one of the top selling rock bands of all time, selling over 75 million records.
1:48.0	Last year, Stewart released to the book, Stuart Copeland's Police Diaries, which includes his personal notes dating back to the band's
1:54.9	formation in 1976 through 78 when they started to take off.
2:00.7	On today's episode, Bruce Helum talks to Stuart Copeland about the first time he saw
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