Best known as the drummer for The Police, Stewart Copeland has enjoyed a
prolific personal career, notably as a film composer. Born in Alexandria
(Virginia, USA) on July 16, 1952, he grew up in Beirut (Lebanon), where he began
taking drumming lessons at the age of twelve. He studied in London and then
California, and played in the progressive rock band Curved Air, before taking
part with Sting and Henri Padovani in the creation of The Police, whose manager
was none other than his elder brother Miles Copeland III, founder of the I.R.S.
Records label. From their punk beginnings, Th...