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Stewart Copeland
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American drummer and composer (born 1952)
Film & TV
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police. During the group's extended hiatus from the mid-1980s to 2007, he played in other bands and composed soundtracks. Copeland was ranked by Rolling Stone magazine's reader poll as the fifth greatest drummer of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stewart…
Known for
- Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear — Self2026
- Sting and the Police at the BBC — Self2024
- Let There Be Drums! — Self2022
- Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert — Self2022
- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self2021
- The Go-Go's — Self - The Police2021
- Count Me In — Self2021
- Under the Volcano — Self2021
- On Drums... Stewart Copeland! — Self2019
- Anti-Nowhere League: We Are The League — Self2019
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1952
Discography
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- Listeners
- 44,944
- Total plays
- 1,193,212
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Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician best known as the drummer for the band The Police. He is widely regarded as an influential drummer with a distinctive style and has also gained recognition for his extensive work composing soundtracks for film, television, and video games. During the early years of The Police, Copeland released music under the secret pseudonym Klark Kent. In the late 1980s, he formed the band Animal Logic with jazz bassist Stanley Clarke an
Key facts
- Also known as
- Klark Kent
- Born
- Stewart Armstrong Copeland , ( 1952-07-16 ) July 16, 1952 (age 73) , Alexandria, Virginia , U.S.
- Genres
- Rock pop new wave film score contemporary classical
- Occupations
- Musician composer
- Instruments
- Drums percussion
- Years active
- 1974–present
- Member of
- Animal Logic Oysterhead Gizmodrome
- Formerly of
- Curved Air The Police
- Website
- stewartcopeland .net
- Channel
- Stewart Copeland
- Genre
- Music
- Subscribers
- 111 thousand
- Views
- 15.9 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Copeland
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Alexandria
- Father
- Miles Copeland, Jr.
- Mother
- Lorraine Copeland
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- drum kit
- Record label
- A&M Records
- Official website
- www.stewartcopeland.net
- Image
- Stewart Copeland at SXSW London June 2025 (cropped).jpg
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- Stewart Copeland
- date of birth
- 1952-07-16
- member of
- Curved Air
- birth name
- Stewart Armstrong Copeland
- start of work period
- 1974-00-00
- name in native language
- Stewart Copeland
- pseudonym
- Klark Kent
- social media followers
- 114000
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Stewart Copeland
- number of viewers/listeners
- 16547120
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Encyclopedic overview
Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer who was the drummer of the English rock band the Police (1977–84, 1986, 2007–08). Before the Police, he played drums with the progressive rock band Curved Air (1975–76).
As a composer, Copeland's work includes the scores of the films Wall Street (1987), Men at Work (1990), Good Burger (1997), and We Are Your Friends (2015); the theme music for television shows The Equalizer, The Amanda Show, and Dead Like Me; and the scores for video games in the Spyro series and Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare. He has also written pieces for ballet, opera, and orchestra.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stewart Copeland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.