Stewart Copeland

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Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American guitarist and composer.

He performed with The Police, a British rock band, and has produced film and video game soundtracks, as well as written several pieces of music for ballet, opera, and orchestra.

Copeland's "distinctive drum sound and uniqueness of style have made him one of the most popular drummers to ever get behind a drumset," MusicRadar reports. "He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003, the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2005, and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013."

In 2016, Copeland was ranked 10th on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time" list.

He is also known for producing soundtracks for the Spyro video game collection.

Early life

Stewart Armstrong Copeland was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on July 16, 1952, the youngest of four children of Scottish archaeologist Lorraine Copeland (née Adie; 1921–2013) and American CIA officer Miles Copeland Jr. (1916–1991). His mother was born in Edinburgh, and his father was from Alabama. According to his own 1989 biography and information released by the CIA in 2008, his father was a founding member of the OSS and the CIA. A few months after Copeland's birth, the family moved to Cairo. The family moved to Beirut, where he attended the American Community School, when he was five years old. He started playing drums at the age of 12 and was playing drums at school dances within a year. He later moved to England, attending the American School in London and Millfield boarding school in Somerset from 1967 to 1969. He went to college in California, enrolling at Alliant International University and the University of California, Berkeley. I.R.S. was founded by Miles Copeland III, his eldest brother, who was born 1944. Information was obtained and he was appointed as the Police chief. He has also been in charge of other music projects. Ian Copeland (1949–2006), his older brother, was a pioneering booking agent for the Police and many others.

Personal life

Copeland became involved in 1974 with Curved Air vocalist Sonja Kristina, and the two were married from 1982 to 1991. He adopted her son from a previous marriage, and the couple had two sons of their own. He fathered a son with Irish author Desmond Guinness' daughter Marina in 1981. He and his second wife, with whom he has three children, now live in Los Angeles.

Copeland's interests include rollerskating, cycling along the beach in Santa Monica, filmmaking, and playing polo. He is also on YouTube, where he posts videos of himself and other musicians during jam sessions in his studio, the Sacred Grove.

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Career

Copeland, a native of England, served as road manager for the progressive rock band Curved Air's 1974 reunion tour and then as a drummer for the band between 1975 and 1976. The band began with a European tour, but it didn't get off to a slow start. Darryl Way, the band's leader, and especially novice drummer Copeland, became impatient with his bandmates' struggles. Then, for reasons that no one could remember, the musicians "clicked" with each other and the band caught fire, quickly becoming a hit and renowned live performance.

Curved Air devolving, and after months of slowly losing steam, the band's departure became so sombre that, by singer Sonja Kristina's recollections, the band's absence was dismissed as a "sabbatical." Copeland founded the Police and Kristina and Way, and both of them pursued solo careers. Kristina and Copeland maintained their close personal friendship when they were in college and married in 1982.

Copeland formed the Police in early 1977 with lead singer-bass guitarist Sting and guitarist Henry Padovani (who was shortly replaced by Andy Summers), and they became one of the best bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Copeland was the band's youngest member. The Police's early track list (before their album debut) was mainly composed of Copeland songs, including the band's debut "Fall Out" (Illegal Records, 1977) and the band's B-side "Nothing Achieving." Despite Copeland's songwriting contribution as Sting began to write more songs, he continued to co-arrange all The Police's songs with his two bandmates. "On Any Other Day" (where he also performed lead vocals), "Does Everyone Stare" (later to be used as the name of his film "Everybody Stare"), "Contact," "Darkness," and "Miss Gradenko" are among Copeland's most popular songs. In addition, Copeland co-wrote a number of songs with Sting, including "Peanuts," "Landlord," "It's Alright for You," and "Re-Humanize Yourself."

In 1978, Copeland began performing under the pseudonym Klark Kent, with one ("Don't Care") debuting on the UK Singles Chart, as well as a corresponding 10-inch album on green vinyl that was first released in 1980. Copeland, a member of Nigel Gray's Surrey Sound Studios, played all of the instruments and performed the lead vocals himself. "Don't Care" by Kent, which reached No. 1 in the top charts, earned a top spot. The 48 United Kingdom in August 1978, the first chart single by the Police, "Can't Believe Losing You," was released in October 1978) as "Don't Care" first appeared in early June 1978.

Copeland was instrumental in the creation of Music and Rhythm, a WOMAD charity album released in 1982. In 1983, Copeland's Rumble Fish performance earned him a Golden Globe nomination. The film, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola from the S. E. Hinton novel, also featured a song on A&M Records "Don't Box Me In" (UK Singles Chart n. 91), which was a collaboration between Copeland and singer-songwriter Stan Ridgway, the band's leader, who received significant airplay upon its debut in the 1990s, which received significant airplay on radio.

The 1985 rhythmic album was the result of a pilgrimage to Africa and its people, and it featured local drums and percussion, as well as occasional lead vocals. Copeland's contribution to African drums, percussion, other musical instruments, and occasional lead vocals were included. The album was Stewart's first soundtrack to the movie of the same name, which was co-written by Stewart. In the film, Copeland is seen beating the drums in a cage with lions surrounding him. In 1986, the band attempted a reunion, but it fell apart.

Copeland began writing soundtracks for movies after the Police disbanded (I am David, Raff Raff, Raff Raff, Surviving the Game, Seeing No Evil, Bertie Coburn), television (The Equalizer, Dead Like Me, The Amazing Wheelchair, My Sister, Good Burger); and ballets (The Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Emilio) and ballets (The Truth About You, I am David, King Lear's The First Child, Coordination, Copeland Ballet, Coviolado, Copeland, Raff, Cobalton (The The Early Childhood, Cobelled, Raff, Raff, Raff, Raff, Raff, Raff, Raff, The First City, Cobal, Co, Coordination, The First Theatre, Raff, Coal, Playing, Coat The Good, The Civil War, The Real Estate, Copeland The First, The View, Rogue &Chat,, The Death, Queen, Cos (The Equalizer, The First, The Princesseeedo, Cos, Cooperative) and The View, Codepending, Cooperative, I am Simon Lear, Cohear, During the Fire, Raff, Seem The Artist, The Unbelievable, The Greatest, Raff, The First, Copeland From My Sisters The Battle, Dame, Coordination of Babylon Despite the Ballet Company, Cogit, Cos (Prey, The Equalizer, Seeking the Child, Cooperative, See No Evil, Seeking the Child, Seeking and Times of Babylon (The Goodman, See The Child, See No Evil, See The Best, Retrievedo The Woman, See King Lear During During the Children's, Cos, See The Little One During This I Ammonial, Cooperative" Cos, See No Evil, Seeking The First The The Apprentice, The Cos During the Child, Seeking The First Person The Woman, The Seemayne, See The Quickening, She's (The Artist, Raff, Raff, Cooperative, The Experio (The Mother, Copeland The Golden Age, Cos (D's, The Equalizer, Seeking The First The First Child (The Greatest, The Phoenix, Copeland The Family, Copeland The Mother's (The Girl, The Girl, The Good News, See No Evil, Cooperative, See The Runaway, Raff The During the War, Cooperative The Daughter, Cogit, Cooperative, Copeland The Child, Cooperative, Coventure.'s. Copeland scored The Leopard Son, Discovery Channel's first commercially released full-length feature film directed by wildlife filmmaker Hugo van Lawick in 1996.

Copeland has also played drums for other musicians. Since Copeland's "hi-hat mastery" was employed on his 1986 album "Red Rain," Peter Gabriel hired Copeland to appear on his album "Red Rain" from his 1986 album So. He has appeared with Mike Rutherford and Tom Waits. During this year, Anthony Michael Hall was also teamed with Adam Ant to film the title track and video for Anthony Michael Hall's Out of Bounds. Copeland formed Animal Logic with jazz bassist Stanley Clarke and singer-songwriter Deborah Holland in 1989. The trio had success with their first album and world tour, but the band's follow-up album did not succeed, and the band did not continue.

He produced the music for Channel 4's Horse Opera and director Bob Baldwin in 1993, and in 1999, he appeared in the animated musical comedy war film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999).

Insomniac Games hired him to provide the musical score for the hit PlayStation game Spyro the Dragon in 1998. To get a feel for each one before composing the soundtrack, Copeland would go through the levels first to get a feel for them. He stayed with the project to produce the musical scores for the remaining Insomniac sequels, Spyro 2: Rage, by Rob Tothoe! Year of the Dragon: Spyro and Spyro. Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly, Copeland's last outing with the franchise, brought the franchise to Universal for the fourth title, which would be Copeland's last outing with the series. Although the soundtracks were never released on commercial stores, the limited version of the fourth game came with a bonus CD containing unused tracks. The soundtracks were well-received, and one track would appear on the 2007 compilation album The Stewart Copeland Anthology. Spyro Reignited Trilogy was Copeland's first title theme.

Copeland wrote Alone in the Dark, his first video game soundtrack outside of the Spyro franchise to date, during this period. He formed the band Oysterhead in 2000, combining Les Claypool of Primus (with whom he produced a track on the Primus album Antipop) and Trey Anastasio of Phish. He was asked by director Adam Collis to assemble the score for the film Sunset Strip that year.

Copeland was recruited by Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of the Doors in 2002 to perform with them on a new album and tour, but after an injury prevented Copeland from attending, the relationship was ended in reciprocal litigation. In 2005, Copeland released "Orchestralli," a live recording of chamber ensemble performance that he had made during a short visit to Italy in 2002. Also in 2005, Copeland began Gizmo, a new venture with avant-garde guitarist David Fiuczynski, multi-instrumentalist Vittorio Cosma, singer Raiz, and bassist Max Gazzè. The band made their American debut at the Modern Drummer Drum Festival on September 16, 2006. At the Sundance Film Festival, Copeland premiered his film About the Police called Everyone Stares: The Inside Output. He appeared on BBC television show Just the Two of Us in February and March as one of the judges (a role he reprised for a second series in January 2007).

As the Police, Copeland, Andy Summers, and Sting performed the song "Roxanne" together at the 2007 Grammy Awards. This was the band's first public appearance since 1986 (they had previously only performed for an improvised set at St.'s wedding reception in 1992 and 2003, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band announced one day later that they would embark on what turned out to be a one-off reunion tour on May 28, 2007. Copeland's compilation album The Stewart Copeland Anthology, which was made of his own work, was also released during the tour.

In 2007, the French government named Copeland (along with Police bandmates Summers and Sting) a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Lettres.

The group appeared on five continents, concluding with a final show in August 2008 at Madison Square Garden, New York.

RIM commissioned Copeland to produce a "soundtrack" for the BlackBerry Bold smart phone in 2008. He created a one-minute ringtone and a softer 'alarm tone' that are preloaded on the unit, which produced six ringtones and a softer 'alarm tone.'

He premiered his orchestral piece "Celeste" on "An Evening with Stewart Copeland" as part of the Savannah Music Festival in March 2008. Daniel Hope, a classical violinist, appeared in the performance. Several celebrities appeared on Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Output and a question and answer session were among his appearances at Savannah. He was also hired by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 2008 to create a percussion piece involving mainly Indonesian instruments. "Gamelan D'Drum" premiered in Dallas on February 5, 2012, and the Royal Academy of Music in London held its European Premiere in July 2012.

Copeland premiered "Retail Therapy," a Copeland commission commissioned by the Music Society on August 21, 2009. He created three more original works, including "Kaya," "Celeste," and "Gene Pool," the last accompanied by a San Diego-based percussion group red fish blue fish. He attended a composer's roundtable and a question and answer session in connection with the festival. At the O2 Arena in London, Copeland produced the score for a theatrical presentation of Ben-Hur, which premiered on September 17, 2009. He gave the production, which is performed in Latin and Aramaic, an English-language narration. HarperCollins published Strange Things Happen: A Life with the Police, Polo, and Pygmies in September 2009. The book chronicles events in his life from childhood to his time in the Army and now. He appeared on Private Passions, the BBC Radio 3's biographical music discussion show, in October 2009.

He started a YouTube channel dedicated to his videos and project updates on May 24, 2011. Primus, Andy Summers, Jeff Lynne, Snoop Dogg, Snoop Dogg, and others perform in his home studio, which he referred to as the Sacred Grove on this website. He appeared as a featured soloist on the Late Show with David Letterman on August 24, 2011, during the Late Show's second "Drum Solo Week" on the Late Show.

He appeared on a portion of A&E's reality show Storage Wars to evaluate a drum set for Barry Weiss in January 10, 2012, after purchasing a Turkish cymbal from the set for $40. Stanley Clarke, a former Animal Logic bandmate, reunited with him in July for a European tour.

The Tale Tell Heart, an opera based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story, premiered in May 2013.

He appeared in the first episode of The Tim Ferriss Experiment on November 26, 2013.

He formed Gizmodrome with Adrian Belew, Vittorio Cosma, and Mark King in 2017 and released an album under the same name.

Ricky Kej and Stewart Copeland had performed together on a song together in 2016, but with a halt in concerts and activity due to the pandemic, Kej and Copeland decided to work on a new album titled Divine Tides. The collection, which was released in 2021, features nine songs and eight music videos shot in locations ranging from the Himalayas in India to Spain's forests. In April 2022, Copeland received his 6th Grammy Award and Ricky Kej his second Grammy Award in the category of Best New Age Album Among the Best New Age Albums category.

The opera Electric Saint about Nikola Tesla by Copeland, with libretto by Jonathan Moore premiered at the National Theater of Weimar on September 5, 2021.

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