Stewart Copeland Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Stewart Armstrong Copeland (created July 16, 1952) is an American musician, multi instrumentalist and composer best known as the drummer for the group the Police and for his movie music soundtracks.
In 1977, Copeland founded the Police with vocalist-bassist Sting and guitarist Henry Padovani (who was shortly replaced by Andy Summers), also it became one among the best groups of the 1980s. The Police’s early track list was mainly made of Copeland’s compositions, for example, group’s first single “Fall Out” (Illegal Records, 1977) as well as the flip side “Nothing Achieving”. Though Copeland’s songwriting contribution was reduced to a few songs per record as Sting began writing more content, Stewart Copeland continued to co-arrange all of the Police’s tunes together with his two bandmates. Copeland also coauthored several tunes with Sting, including “Peanuts”, “Landlord”, “It’s Alright for You” and “Re-Humanize Yourself”.
Jordan Copeland, Scott Copeland, Patrick Copeland, Eve Copeland, Celeste Copeland, Grace Copeland, Sven Copeland
Parents
Lorraine Copeland, Miles Copeland Jr.
Siblings
Miles Copeland III, Ian Copeland, Lennie Copeland
Nicknames
Stewart Armstrong Copeland , Kinetic Kid , Klark Kent
Music Groups
The Police (1977 – 2008)
Nominations
Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition - Series (Original Dramatic Score), Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Every Breath You Take, Roxanne, Message in a Bottle
Movies
Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Star Sign
Cancer
#
Trademark
1
Virtuoso technique on the hi-hat
2
Plays drums utilizing the traditional grip, where the right hand uses an overhand grip of one drumstick, while the left hand uses an underhand grip of the other stick. This is a rarity among rock drummers, almost all of whom use match grip, or an overhand grip on both sticks.
3
Ever-present suede leather gloves when playing his drums
#
Quote
1
I have the most enormous gong in the world; it's bigger than Neil Peart's, and it's bigger than John Bonham's. If Neil has a revolving kit, then I have a bigger gong. I play other instruments as well, mind you, but drums are my main thing.
2
I didn't say I was religious. I'm a big fan of the Old Testament and the perfidy it contains. I read very little fiction.
3
[in 1980] We've broken all existing records as far back as The Beatles, at this point, in terms of speed of record sales, the kind of hysteria. There hasn't been such a clear lead for one group, ahead of all the rest. The last group who had a clear lead were Queen, but we're bigger now than Queen were then. We're probably bigger than Led Zeppelin too, because they never had any teen appeal or hysteria. I suppose the Bay City Rollers had hysteria, but they didn't have any music.
4
I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited. The guy who gets the credit, whose picture is on the album cover, is the guy who's making the unpleasant noise with stupid lyrics that don't mean anything to me. But the music underneath it is really important and really creative. Those guys never seem to be credited.
5
In our day, we were The Beatles of the '70s or the '80s or whichever...and we were the biggest thing since whatever and then six months after we broke up, Duran Duran were the biggest. After that, somebody else was and, six months ago, Oasis were the biggest. Now the Spice Girls are. So it's kind of hard to take any of that seriously.
6
The film composer has the widest skill set of any musician because he has to go to places that his instincts wouldn't take him. I learned all kinds of useful stuff that I now apply to my own artistic vision.
7
I was not a big fan of opera. I didn't really "get" the first few I saw until I saw a David Hockney production of "Tristan". That was en education as to what it's all about with opera: the power, the majesty, the kick-ass of a big orchestra and a big story.
8
I am a crusader, educating musicians who have the depth of talent for large-scale enterprises. I encourage them. It's really a lot of fun. It's magnificent when you hear the orchestra pump it out. Learning to score a chart is easier than learning French. There are fewer words and, being musicians, the people I'm talking about already have that covered.
9
When I was a film composer under a deadline those instruments would gather dust. And any time I spent hooting away on my bass clarinet just for the fun of it felt like time wasted. Then I came to the realization that it's not goofing off, that's what I'm here for.
10
Classical music was always going through my head. Even when I listened to Hendrix [Jimi Hendrix] I imagined strings around him. I was never into opera, though. I had a problem with the singers. That exaggerated vibrato. It obscures the melody. Then I saw Wagner [Richard Wagner]'s "Parsifal" and I got it - overwrought dramatic subjects and overwrought dramatic music sobbing with emotion. When the opportunity to write one came, I thought, "There's nothing wrong with opera that a good opera wouldn't fix".
11
Smile my friends, in show-biz you have to take the rough with the smooth.
#
Fact
1
He is recognized as a virtuoso on the hi-hat. For this reason, Peter Gabriel recruited him to play the hi-hat on his 1986 song "Red Rain". Copeland is the first musician heard on the record.
Attended The American Community School of Beirut in Lebanon as a child.
5
Lives in Los Angeles.
6
Has six children. With his first wife, he had three sons (Sven, Jordan, and Scott). With his current wife, he has three daughters (Eve, Grace, and Celeste).
7
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Police) on 10 March 2003.
8
On Sept. 1, 2002, he was presented as the drummer in a re-united version of The Doors. The band, also dubbed "The 21st Century Doors", features original band members Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, with lead singer of The Cult, Ian Astbury, on vocals.
9
He is fluent in Arabic, the main language spoken during his childhood.
His brother Miles A. Copeland III was the founder of IRS Records, an A&M subsidiary, in the 1980s.
12
He was the founding member of The Police with future soloist Sting. The group had five #1 singles in the UK between 1979 and 1983 before breaking up in 1986.
13
Copeland's father, Miles Copeland, was a trumpeter in Glenn Miller's Air Force Band, and later became a founding agent in the CIA.
14
Lived in Egypt and Lebanon for a time when he was young due to his parents' careers (his father was in the CIA and his mother was an archaeologist.)
Video Game performer: "Alone in the Dark" Theme Song / producer: "Alone in the Dark" Theme Song / writer: "Alone in the Dark" Theme Song
Boys and Girls
2000
writer: "Straight Cold Player"
Skipped Parts
2000
performer: "Do The Shark" / writer: "Do The Shark"
Boiler Room
2000
writer: "Wait Gekko", "I Just Know"
Farscape
2000
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Simpatico
1999
arranger: "My Old Kentucky Home" 1853 / performer: "My Old Kentucky Home" 1853, "Free of It All" 1999 / writer: "Free of It All" 1999
Pecker
1998
performer: "Straight Boys", "Don't Drop the Soap For Anyone Else But Me", "Pecker Man" / writer: "Straight Boys", "Don't Drop the Soap For Anyone Else But Me", "Pecker Man"
Very Bad Things
1998
writer: "Walls Come Down" 1998
Boys
1996
performer: "She's Not There"
Peter Gabriel's Secret World
1994
TV Movie documentary writer: "Across The River" - as Stuart Copeland
Afterburn
1992
TV Movie writer: "For One Moment"
Highlander II: The Quickening
1991
producer: "Bird Flight", "Destroy Shield", "Sunshield / Dam Escape"