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Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is a Scottish-American musician and composer. He is best known for his work as the drummer of the English rock band
the Police The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For most of their history the line-up consisted of primary songwriter Sting (lead vocals, bass guitar), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums, percussion). The Police ...
from 1977 to 1986, and again from 2007 to 2008. Before playing with the Police, he played drums with English rock band Curved Air from 1975 to 1976. As a composer, his work includes the films ''
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'' (1987), ''Men At Work'' (1990), ''
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'' (1997), and '' We Are Your Friends'' (2015); the television shows '' The Equalizer'' (1985–1989), ''
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'' (1999–2002), and ''
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'' (2003–2004); and video games such as the ''
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'' series (1998–present) and '' Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare'' (2001). He has also written various pieces of ballet, opera, and orchestral music. According to MusicRadar, Copeland's "distinctive drum sound and uniqueness of style has made him one of the most popular drummers to ever get behind a drumset". He was ranked the 10th best drummer of all time by ''
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'' in 2016. He was inducted into the
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as a member of the Police in 2003, the ''
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'' Hall of Fame in 2005, and the ''Classic Drummer'' Hall of Fame in 2013.


Early life

Stewart Armstrong Copeland was born in
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, on July 16, 1952, the youngest of four children of Scottish archaeologist
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(née Adie; 1921–2013) and American
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officer Miles Copeland Jr. (1916–1991). His mother was born in
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, while his father was from
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. His father was, according to his own 1989 biography and files released by the CIA in 2008, a founding member of the OSS and the CIA. The family moved to
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a few months after Copeland's birth. When he was five years old, the family moved to
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, where he attended the American Community School. He started taking drum lessons at age 12 and was playing drums for school dances within a year. He later moved to England, attending the American School in London and Millfield boarding school in
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from 1967 to 1969. He went to college in
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, enrolling at Alliant International University and the
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. His eldest brother,
Miles Copeland III 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, producin ...
(born 1944), founded I.R.S. Records and became the Police's manager. He has also overseen Copeland's interests in other music projects. His other brother,
Ian Copeland Ian Adie Copeland (April 25, 1949 – May 23, 2006) was an American music promoter and booking agent who helped launch the new wave movement in the United States. Early life Copeland was born in Rif Dimashq near Damascus, Syria, the second of ...
(1949–2006), was a pioneering booking agent who represented the Police and many others.


Career


Curved Air (1975–1976)

Returning to England, Copeland worked as
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for the
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band Curved Air's 1974 reunion tour, and then as drummer for the band during 1975 and 1976. The band kicked off with a European tour, which started poorly. Band leader
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, a notorious perfectionist, grew impatient with the struggling of his bandmates, especially novice drummer Copeland.Sutcliffe, Phil & Fielder, Hugh (1981). ''L'Historia Bandido''. London and New York: Proteus Books. . Pages 15–16. Then, for reasons no one could pinpoint, the musicians suddenly "clicked" with each other and the band caught fire, quickly becoming a popular and acclaimed live act.


The Police (1977–1986)

In early 1977, Copeland founded the Police with lead singer-bass guitarist Sting and guitarist
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(who was soon replaced by
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), and they became one of the top bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Copeland was the youngest member of the band.
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's early track list (before their album debut) was largely Copeland compositions, including the band's first single " Fall Out" (
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, 1977) and the
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"Nothing Achieving". Though Copeland's songwriting contribution was reduced to a couple of songs per album as Sting started writing more material, he continued to co-arrange all
The Police The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For most of their history the line-up consisted of primary songwriter Sting (lead vocals, bass guitar), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums, percussion). The Police ...
's songs together with his two bandmates. Amongst Copeland's most notable songs are "On Any Other Day" (where he also sang lead vocals), "Does Everyone Stare" (later to be used as the title of his documentary on the band '' Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out''), "Contact", "Bombs Away", "Darkness" and "Miss Gradenko". Copeland also co-wrote a number of songs with Sting, including "Peanuts", "Landlord", "It's Alright for You" and "Re-Humanize Yourself". Copeland also recorded under the
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Klark Kent, releasing several UK singles in 1978 with one ("Don't Care") entering the
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that year, along with an eponymous 10-inch album on green
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released in 1980. Recording at
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's Surrey Sound Studios, Copeland played all the instruments and sang the lead vocals himself. Kent's "Don't Care", which peaked at No. 48 UK in August 1978, actually predates the first chart single by the Police by several months ("
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", issued in October 1978) as "Don't Care" was released in early June 1978. In 1982, Copeland was involved in the production of a
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benefit album called ''Music and Rhythm''. Copeland's score for ''
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'' secured him a Golden Globe nomination in 1983. The film, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola from the
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novel, also had a song released to radio on
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" Don't Box Me In" (UK Singles Chart n. 91)—a collaboration between Copeland and singer-songwriter Stan Ridgway, leader of the band
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—that received significant airplay upon release of the film that year. ''The Rhythmatist'' record of 1985 was the result of a pilgrimage to Africa and its people, and it features local drums and percussion, with more drums, percussion, other musical instruments and occasional lead vocals added by Copeland. The album was the official soundtrack to the movie of the same name, which was co-written by Stewart. Copeland is seen in the film playing the drums in a cage with lions surrounding him. The band attempted a reunion in 1986, but the project fell apart.


Solo projects and movie soundtracks (1987–1998)

After the Police disbanded, Copeland established a career composing soundtracks for movies (''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' See No Evil, Hear No Evil'', '' Highlander II: The Quickening'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Taking Care of Business'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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''), television ('' The Equalizer'', ''
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'', '' Star Wars: Droids'', the pilot for ''
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'' (1993),
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's ''The Amanda Show'', ''
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''), operas (''Holy Blood and Crescent Moon'', commissioned by
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) and ballets (''Prey' Ballet Oklahoma'', ''Casque of Amontillado'', ''Noah's Ark''/''Solcheeka'', commissioned by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, ''
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'', commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet Company, ''Emilio''). In 1996, Copeland provided the score for ''The Leopard Son'',
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's its first commercially released full-length feature film, made by wildlife filmmaker
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. Copeland also occasionally played drums for other artists. Peter Gabriel employed Copeland to perform on his song " Red Rain" from his 1986 album '' So'' because of his "hi-hat mastery". He has also performed with
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and
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. That year he also teamed with
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to record the title track and video for the
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movie ''
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''. In 1989, Copeland formed
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with jazz bassist
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and singer-songwriter
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. The trio had success with their first album and world tour but the follow-up recording sold poorly, and the band did not continue. In 1993 he composed the music for
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's ''Horse Opera'' and director Bob Baldwin, and in 1999, he provided the voice of an additional American soldier in the animated
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'' South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' (1999).


''Spyro the Dragon'' soundtracks (1998–2002, 2018)

He was commissioned by
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in 1998 to make the musical score for the hit
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game ''
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''. Copeland would play through the levels first to get a feel for each one before composing the soundtrack. He also stayed with the project to create the musical scores for the remaining Insomniac sequels '' Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!'' and '' Spyro: Year of the Dragon''. The franchise shifted over to Universal for the fourth title, '' Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly'', which would be Copeland's last outing with the series. While the soundtracks never saw commercial release, the limited edition of the fourth game came packaged with a bonus CD, containing unused tracks. The soundtracks were very well received, and one track would later appear on the 2007 compilation album '' The Stewart Copeland Anthology''. Copeland composed a new title theme for ''
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''. This period also saw Copeland compose the soundtrack for '' Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare'', his only video game soundtrack outside of the ''Spyro'' franchise to date. In 2000, he combined with
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of Primus (with whom he produced a track on the Primus album ''
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'') and
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of
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to create the band
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. That same year, he was approached by director
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to assemble the score for the film '' Sunset Strip''.


Collaborations (2002–2006)

In 2002, Copeland was hired by
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and
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of
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to play with them for a new album and tour, but after an injury sidelined Copeland, the arrangement ended in reciprocal lawsuits. In 2005, Copeland released "Orchestralli", a live recording of chamber ensemble music which he had composed during a short tour of Italy in 2002. Also in 2005, Copeland started Gizmo, a new project with
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guitarist
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, multi-instrumentalist
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, singer Raiz and bassist Max Gazzè. The band made their U.S debut on September 16, 2006, at the ''
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'' Drum Festival. In January 2006, Copeland premiered his film about the Police called '' Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'' at the
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. In February and March, he appeared as one of the judges on the
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show ''
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'' (a role he later reprised for a second series in January 2007).


The Police reunion (2007–2008)

At the 2007
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, Copeland, Andy Summers and Sting performed the song " Roxanne" together again as the Police. This marked the band's first public performance since 1986 (they had previously reunited only for an improvised set at Sting's wedding party in 1992 and for their induction into the
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in 2003). One day later, the band announced that in celebration of the Police's 30th anniversary, they would be embarking on what turned out to be a one-off reunion tour on May 28, 2007. During the tour, Copeland also released his compilation album '' The Stewart Copeland Anthology'', which was composed of his independent work. In 2007, the French government appointed Copeland (along with Police bandmates Summers and Sting) a Chevalier of the
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. The group performed 151 dates across five continents, concluding with a final show in August 2008 at
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, New York.


Projects (2008–present)

In 2008, RIM commissioned Copeland to write a "soundtrack" for the
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smart phone. He created a highly percussive theme of one minute's length from which he evolved six ringtones and a softer 'alarm tone' that are preloaded on the device. In March 2008, he premiered his orchestral composition "Celeste" at "An Evening with Stewart Copeland", part of the
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. The performance featured classical violinist
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. His appearance at Savannah included a screening of ''Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'' and a question and answer session. Also in 2008, he was commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to create a percussion piece involving primarily Indonesian instruments. "Gamelan D'Drum" was first performed in Dallas on February 5, 2012, and had its European Premiere at the Royal Academy of Music in London in July 2012. On August 21, 2009, at SummerFest 2009, Copeland unveiled the composition "Retail Therapy", which was commissioned by the Music Society. He performed three more original works: "Kaya", "Celeste", and "Gene Pool", the last accompanied by San Diego-based percussion ensemble red fish blue fish. He attended a composer's roundtable and a question and answer discussion in conjunction with the festival. Copeland wrote the score for a theatrical presentation of ''Ben-Hur'', which premiered on September 17, 2009, at
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in London. He provided English-language narration of the production, which is performed in
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and
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. His memoir ''Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies'' was released by
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in September 2009. The book chronicles events in his life from childhood through his work with the Police and to the present. In October 2009, he was a guest on ''
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'', the biographical music discussion program on
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. On May 24, 2011, he started a YouTube channel devoted to his videos and project updates. On this channel, he uploads performances with various musicians, including Primus, Andy Summers,
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,
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, and others in his home studio, which he refers to as the Sacred Grove. On August 24, 2011, he was a featured soloist on the ''
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'', as part of their second "Drum Solo Week". On January 10, 2012, he appeared on an episode of the A&E reality series '' Storage Wars'' to appraise a drum set for Barry Weiss, buying a Turkish cymbal from the set for $40. In July he reunited with former Animal Logic bandmate Stanley Clarke for a European tour. In May 2013, he and the
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premiered ''The Tale Tell Heart'', an opera based on the short story by
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. On November 26, 2013, he appeared in the first episode of ''The Tim Ferriss Experiment''. In 2017, he formed the supergroup
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with
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,
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, and Mark King and released an album of the same name.
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and Stewart Copeland had worked together on a song in 2016 and so with a pause in concerts and activity due to the pandemic, Kej reached out to Copeland to collaborate on a new album that came to be called Divine Tides. Released in 2021, the album includes nine songs and eight music videos that were shot in locations ranging from the Himalayas in India, to forests in Spain. In April 2022, the album scored Copeland his 6th
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Award, and Ricky Kej his second
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Awards, in the category of
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On September 5, 2021, the opera ''Electric Saint'' about the life of
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National Theater of Weimar.


Personal life

In 1974, Copeland became romantically involved with Curved Air vocalist
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, and they were married from 1982 to 1991. He adopted her son from a previous relationship, and they had two sons of their own. In 1981, he fathered a son with Irish author
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' daughter Marina. He currently lives in
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with his second wife, with whom he has three children. Copeland's hobbies include rollerskating, cycling along the beach in
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, filmmaking, and playing polo. He is also active on his
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channel, where he uploads videos of himself and other musicians during jam sessions in his studio, the Sacred Grove.


Drumming style

Copeland grew up listening to a combination of Lebanese music, rock and roll, jazz, and reggae, but he selected from these styles what he needed rather than imitating them. In the 1980s, when many musicians were looking for bigger sound from bigger drums, he added
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s. Invented by
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in 1978, Octobans consisted of eight six-inch drums in the shape of narrow tubes. He used another innovation, a
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based on a toy that he owned and that he helped
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design. He relied heavily on his 13" hi-hats. Despite being left-handed, Copeland plays a right-handed drum kit, placing the hi-hats on his left and
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and floor toms on his right. He uses a wide
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and demonstrates a proficiency of jazz-style articulation in his
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playing, interspersing strong back-beats with soft rim comping. During his years with the Police, he became known for engaging only the hi-hat with the
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to keep the beat. In an interview with ''Modern Drummer'', Copeland has cited
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of
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as a prime musical influence. He states that as a child, whenever he had a song or melody pop in his head, he would walk around wondering how Mitchell would drum to that particular tune. He also named
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and
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as other fundamental influences in the youth years. He has stated that due to his "enforced listening" of
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, he considers himself "allergic" to jazz. He is noted for his strong emphasis on the
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as a complement to the song, rather than as its core component. Nonetheless, his playing often incorporates spectacular fills and subtle inflections which greatly augment the groove. Compared to most of his 1980s contemporaries, his snare sound was bright and cutting. He is also one of the few rock drummers to use
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rather than
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. He is also noted for syncopation in his drumming.


Equipment

Copeland's equipment includes
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,
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cymbals,
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drum heads, and Vater signature drum sticks.


Original live kit set-up (1984)

* Tama Imperialstar Mahogany Drums (9-ply) and Paiste Cymbals: *Drums – Midnight Blue **10x8" Rack Tom **12x8" Rack Tom **13x9" Rack Tom **16x16" Floor Tom **14x5" Pearl B4514 Chrome over Brass Snare Drum **22x14" Bass Drum **Tama Octobans Low Pitch (x4) **Cowbell **Wood Blocks *Cymbals – Paiste **13" Formula 602 Medium Hi-Hats **16" 2002 Crash **8" 2002 Bell **7.5 Ufip Ictus Bell **8" 2002 Splash (x2) **11" 2002 Splash **14" (or 16") Rude Crash/Ride **16" (or 18") Rude Crash/Ride **18" 2002 Medium **24" Rude Ride/Crash **20" 2002 China **Simmons (x2) Pads (to his left) **Assorted Percussion **Stewart also used Calato Regal Tip Rock Wood Tipped Drumsticks


The Police Reunion (2007–2008) tour kit

*Tama Starclassic Maple Drums and Paiste Cymbals: *Drums – Custom Police Blue Sparkle Maple Wood **10x8" Tom **12x8" Tom (To the left of his snare drum) **13x9" Tom **16x16" Floor Tom **18x16" Floor Tom **20x14" Tama Gong Drum **22x18" Bass Drum **14x5" Tama ''SC145 Stewart Copeland Signature'' Snare **Tama Custom Police Blue Sparkle Octobans (x4) (custom made for Copeland) *Cymbals – Paiste **12" Prototype Micro Hi-Hats **16" Signature Full Crash **17" Signature Fast Crash **18" Signature Fast Crash **18" Signature Full Crash **18" 2002 Flat Ride (prototype) **22" Signature Blue Bell Ride **10" Signature Splash **8" Signature Bell **8" Signature Prototype Splash **Assorted percussion *Stewart also uses his own Vater ''Stewart Copeland Standard'' Sticks.


Discography


Studio albums

* 1980: '' Klark Kent: Music Madness from the Kinetic Kid'' (as Klark Kent) * 1983: ''Rumble Fish (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'' * 1985: ''The Rhythmatist'' * 1986: ''Wall Street / Salvador (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)'' * 1988: ''The Equalizer and Other Cliff Hangers'' * 1990: ''Noah's Ark'' (Audiobook, with
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) * 1994: ''Silent Fall Motion Picture Soundtrack'' * 1994: ''Rapa Nui (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'' * 1995: '' Kollected Works'' (as Klark Kent) * 1996: ''The Leopard Son'' * 1997: ''Four Days In September (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture)'' * 1998: ''Little Boy Blue'' * 1999: ''Simpatico (Music From The Motion Picture)'' * 2004: ''Orchestralli'' (Live album) * 2004: ''La Notte della Taranta'' * 2007: '' The Stewart Copeland Anthology'' (Compilation) * 2009: ''Music From Ben Hur Live'' * 2010: ''Dead Like Me (Original MGM Television Soundtrack)'' * 2022: ''Spyro''


Curved Air

* 1975 : ''
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'' * 1976 : ''
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''


The Police

*''
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'' (1978) *''
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'' (1979) *''
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'' (1980) *''
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'' (1981) *''
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'' (1983)


Collaborations

* 1977 : ''Strontium 90: Police Academy'' by
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* 1982 : ''
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'' by
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* 1986 : '' So'' by Peter Gabriel * 1989 : ''Mr. Doubles'' by Moon on the Water * 1989 : ''
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'' by
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* 1991 : ''Animal Logic II'' by Animal Logic * 2001 : ''The Grand Pecking Order'' by
Oysterhead Oysterhead is an American rock supergroup featuring bassist Les Claypool of Primus, guitarist Trey Anastasio of Phish and drummer Stewart Copeland of The Police, with both Claypool and Anastasio providing vocals. The band's eclectic sound ha ...
* 2005 : ''Crossing Times And Continents'' by Eberhard Schoener & Friends - With Sting and Andy Summers * 2017 : ''
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'' by
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* 2021: ''Divine Tides'' by
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Film scores


TV series


Video games


See also

*
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*
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(list of drums)


References


External links


Copeland's official site
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