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In Strange Things Happen, Stewart Copeland, the drummer from The Police, tells stories from before, during, and after the band’s heyday. This remarkable rock memoir moves from Copeland’s remarkable childhood through the formation of The Police and their rise to stardom to the aristocratic life that followed, and finally behind the scenes of The Police’s extraordinarily successful reunion tour. (And yes, there are chapters about Sting, too.)
Book Description:
When Stewart Copeland gets dressed, he has an identity crisis. Should he put on "leather pants, hostile shirts, and pointy shoes"? Or wear something more appropriate to the "tax-paying, property-owning, investment-holding lotus eater" his success has allowed him to become? This dilemma is at the heart of Copeland's vastly entertaining memoir-in-stories, Strange Things Happen. The world knows Copeland as the drummer for The Police, one of the most successful bands in rock history. But they may not know as much about his childhood in the Middle East as the son of a CIA agent. Or be aware of his film-making adventures with the Pygmies in the deepest reaches of the Congo, and his passion for polo (Brideshead Revisited on horses). In Strange Things Happen we move from Copeland's remarkable childhood to the formation of The Police, their rise to stardom, and the settled-down life that followed. It ends with a behind-the-scenes view of The Police's extraordinarily successful reunion tour. It's a book of amazing anecdotes, all completely true, which take us backstage in a life that is fully lived.
Bio:
Reunited after 23 years with his bandmates in the The Police when they opened the Grammy Awards in February 2007, Stewart Copeland counts himself fortunate to have been the founder of the most played and successful trio of the 1980s. The Police’s reunion tour, which began in Vancouver, British Columbia, in May 2007, went on to be the biggest of the year, grossing more than 247 million dollars.
Recipient of the Hollywood Film Festival’s first Outstanding Music in Film Visionary Award, and a 2003 inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Copeland—the former drummer of The Police—has been responsible for some of the film world’s most innovative and groundbreaking scores.
His career includes the sale of more than 40 million records worldwide, which have garnered five Grammy awards. And his travels in search of exotic rhythms and musical celebration have taken him around the world, from mysterious Easter Island to Mozambique, and from the outback of Australia to the remotest regions of the Congolese jungles.
Copeland is the father of seven children. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Fiona Dent.
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