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Stewart Copeland

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Stewart Copeland

August 14, 2013Global Politics

Sting may have been the front man, but drummer Stewart Copeland was the heartbeat of The Police. In his memoir Strange Things Happen Copeland talks about how the band’s creative friction helped sell over 50 million records. And he blows the cover on his father, who raised the young Copeland in Beirut while spying for […]

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