Stewart Copeland
Documentary drummer The Police
Dutch premiere of a film about the life and work of Police drummer Stewart Copeland. Special guest: director Pablo Aragüés.
Stewart Copeland is the founder of The Police. In 1977, he was looking for other musicians to play his own songs and encountered the then-unknown jazz bassist Gordon Sumner – nicknamed “Sting” – in a café. The two had a completely different guitarist in mind when Andy Summers – already a successful artist at the time – showed up. The guitarist was replaced, and The Police were born.
The rest is history, you might say. But for Stewart Copeland, the musical story didn’t end with The Police. The band didn’t last as long as you might think, and Copeland developed a whole new career in film music. Successful in a completely different way than, for example, Sting, who continued to score hit after hit as a solo artist.
In the film “Copeland” by Spanish director Pablo Aragüés, Stewart Copeland himself tells his life story, focusing on the ups and downs of his musical career.