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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Dee Jefferson

‘I once Bogarted a joint from a Beatle’: Stewart Copeland of the Police

Stewart Copeland, with light grey wavy hair and wearing tinted dark-rimmed glasses and a navy shirt, stands in front of a red backdrop, gesturing towards the camera with his left arm and hand, and smiling slightly.
‘Great drummers are born, not made’: Stewart Copeland, founding member of the Police. Photograph: Nick Zonna/ipa-agency.net/Shutterstock

Your 2025 album, Wild Concerto, stars birds and animals as soloists; what animal do you think best represents you, and why?

The wolves of the Arctic Circle! Actually, no, no, no – the hyenas of the Skeleton Coast. Hyenas are very cool animals: they’re butt ugly, but they have extremely complex society, they’re very complex vocally, and they’re very strange animals. I don’t know whether I identify with them personally or not. OK, fuck that: let’s go back to the wolf, much more heroic.

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