Excerpt from New Stewart Copeland Book

[Canard]

A very interesting and informative excerpt.

Punk, Sting and ‘electrified zombies high on glue’: Stewart Copeland on how the Police formed

In this extract from a new book inspired by his old diaries, the Police drummer looks back at December 1976, explaining how he tracked down Sting and dived into the punk scene

www.theguardian.com

First interation of The Police with original guitarist Henry Padovani rather than Andy Summers. A single, that I did not previously know existed.

 

[Canard]

Nor did I know about the band, Last Exit (the UK Fusion group, rather than Bill Laswell's thing). A number of Last Exit tunes were recycled as fodder for Police recordings.

 

[walrus]

This is his second book, the first one was a fun read:

https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Things-Happen-Police-Pygmies/dp/0061791512

But, not to veer, simpy an FYI, the second best rock and roll biography I've ever read (behind "Life" by Keith Richards) is Andy Summers' "One Train Later".

https://www.amazon.com/One-Train-La...c3-94fa-95ce5b6f7bf9&pd_rd_i=031237481X&psc=1

While I'm doing reviews, Sting's autobiography was pretty boring.

https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Music-Memoir-Sting/dp/0385338651/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2AD49UH8B4ZXW&keywords=sting+book&qid=1697500675&s=books&sprefix=sting+book,stripbooks,86&sr=1-1

walrus