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Stewart Copeland: ‘The Police’s recording sessions were very dark. We beat the crap out of each other’
As the Police’s biggest hit album Synchronicity is reissued, their drummer answers your questions on punk, his CIA dad and Sting’s ‘magnificent’ pecs
At the time, I might have been disappointed, but the songs of mine that didn’t make Synchronicity turned into the score for the Francis Ford Coppola film Rumble Fish, which got me a Golden Globe and Grammy award nomination. Now I write film scores, symphonies, I’m on my eighth opera and I still practise drums four hours a day.I’ve achieved a certain amount of small success in almost every form of music except pop. Bauhaus66 He did not, but he sure liked it when people spotted that my band were the Police and my brother Ian’s company [Frontier Booking International] were called the FBI and thought it was all a CIA plot orchestrated by padre.
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