Long-limbed Police drummer Stewart Copeland has had a colourful life so far, taking in time with Curved Air and Gizmodrome as well as scoring movies for Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone. He tells Prog about working with ‘The David Attenborough of sound’ on the nature-themed album Wild Concerto, his role as accidental Police archivist, his friendships with Neil Peart and Taylor Hawkins, and why he’s loving life in his 70s.
Stewart Copeland keeps moving. Professionally, creatively, behind his drum kit and, as it turns out, in interviews, too. Over an hour or so, as we chat via video-call, he does circuits of his expansive Sacred Grove home studio in Brentwood, Los Angeles, stopping only occasionally to flop down on the sofa. His flow of conversation only pauses when he thinks how to frame an answer or recall some minor historical detail. He’s a great advert for getting to 72.
