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Copeland performing with the Police in 1979. In early 1977, Copeland founded the Police with lead singer-bass guitarist Sting and guitarist Henry Padovani (who was soon replaced by Andy Summers), and they became one of the top bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Copeland was the youngest member of the band.
The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. [1] Within a few months of their first gig, the line-up settled as Sting (lead vocals, bass guitar, primary songwriter), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums, percussion), and this remained unchanged for the rest of the band's history.
Miles Axe Copeland III (born May 2, 1944) is an American music and entertainment executive and former manager of the Police. Copeland later managed Sting's musical and acting career. In 1979, Copeland founded the I.R.S. Records label, producing R.E.M., the Bangles, Berlin, the Cramps, Dead Kennedys, the Alarm, the Go-Go's, and others.
Sting described "Wrapped Around Your Finger" as "a spiteful song about turning the tables on someone who had been in charge." [4] Like other Police songs from this period, it features mythological and literary references, including the Scylla and Charybdis monsters of Greek mythology, and the German legend of Faust. It has a relatively slow ...
Sting Outlandos d'Amour: 1978 [1] "How Stupid Mr. Bates" Andy Summers Sting Stewart Copeland Brimstone and Treacle: 1982 "Hungry for You (J'aurais toujours faim de toi)" Sting Ghost in the Machine: 1981 [4] "I Burn for You" Sting Brimstone and Treacle: 1982 "Invisible Sun" † Sting Ghost in the Machine: 1981 [4] "It's Alright for You" Sting ...
It was hard to be serious about the whole thing. I was bemused, much to Stewart [Copeland]'s disgust." [7] According to Copeland, the song was "too cerebral for [the band's] early audiences," so Sting would call it "Three O'Clock Shit", the title of a rejected Police song that appears as "Three O'Clock Shot" on Strontium 90: Police Academy. [7]
The criminal complaint, based on a sting operation involving an FBI confidential source who interacted with Cenat, charged the Miami police officer with using his official position to extort ...
In the Police's 1993 box set Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings, Sting commented for the first time on his decision not to sing "Don't Care" and why he thought the song was a better fit for Copeland, stating that "Stewart is good at being arrogant in a funny way. As in the Klark Kent's line 'If you don't like my arrogance, you can suck ...