Stewart Copeland has revisited the Police’s tumultuous ultimate days, admitting there have been instances when he needed to “choke the life out of” Sting.
By the time the band launched their fifth – and finally final – studio album, Synchronicity, issues inside the Police had develop into “hell on earth.”
“It was a very uncomfortable place — and we drove each other crazy,” Copeland recalled throughout a latest interview with the New York Post. “We now understand where all that tension came from. And in fact, given that understanding, I’m very grateful that we got as many as five albums out of Stingo, because by then … he had a very clear idea of how the arrangements should go.”
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The drummer additional famous that a lot of the discourse between he and Sting stemmed from differing opinions on the band’s route.
“At first, it was collaboration,” Copeland famous of the band’s songwriting dynamic. “It became more and more compromise for him — and it got tougher and tougher for him to make those compromises.”
Copeland joked that the band’s breakup finally prevented a frontman murder. He additional famous that the moments he actually erupted at Sting have been when the singer gave notes on the drum components.
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“The times when I came the closest to homicide, the times when it became absolutely critical that I choke the life out of this man, were when he would come over to me and tell me something about the hi-hat,” Copeland admitted.
In hindsight, the drummer acknowledges that he and Sting had differing philosophies, each of which have been legitimate.
“Sting was looking for a beautiful place, and to create something serene and moving and, dare I say, intellectual,” Copeland defined. “For me, it’s about burning down the house — it’s a party.”
Stewart Copeland’s New Book Chronicles the Police
In the new e book Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries, the acclaimed drummer recounts his profession with the well-known trio.
“It’s full of my original diary pages, hand-made poster designs, ragged accounts, callow observations and other scribblings of a proto-rock star, illuminated by hitherto unseen vintage photos from the deepest vaults,” Copeland famous. “It’s a big, noisy book about one heckuva ride.”
Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries is obtainable now and may be ordered in varied editions, together with copies signed by the drummer.
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