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\n<\/p>\nStewart Copeland has won a Grammy, been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, written books, made films, presented documentaries and composed music for ballet, opera and classical concerts. Now the former drummer with The Police heads out on the next part of his spoken-word tour.<\/p>\n
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This is the second leg of your Have I Said Too Much? tour, its first run having taken place last Autumn. How will this one differ?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Every night is different. I could talk for five hours instead of just a couple, so it\u2019s inevitable that no two shows will be alike. Regarding The Police alone there are twenty anecdotes that I could tell, so we have a lady MC, Lisa Thomson, to keep me on track because one question from the audience is all it takes to get me going for half an hour.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Is the tour called Have I Said Too Much? because you\u2019re a bit of a rentagob?<\/p>\n [Feigning indignation] How dare you? No, I\u2019m kidding \u2013 you don\u2019t even need to rent me, I\u2019m a freegob.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a book about you, also called Have I Said Too Much?, that you describe as \u201ca biography of sorts\u201d. What do you mean by that?<\/p>\n It\u2019s a biography with all sorts of insight that comes from its scurrilous author [Johnny Morgan], a guy who pretends to be an old friend of mine from within the clouds of hashish that enveloped him at the time. In that sense it\u2019s semi-authorised.<\/p>\n How did it feel to read your life story through the eyes of another?<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been doing that for the last fifty years.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s rephrase the question: was it accurate?<\/p>\n Yeah. Pretty much.<\/p>\n Stewart Copeland | Back when I had a disguise and a message | Have I Said Too Much? – YouTube Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n The book paints a somewhat uninspiring picture of your pre-Police time in Curved Air, described as \u201ca mid-level prog band\u201d.<\/p>\n Did he call us that? I didn\u2019t notice it. That\u2019s completely unfair. I will have the book recalled and pulped. No, we were not a stadium act, more of a Polytechnic or City Hall act, but Curved Air burned down the house every night. Sonja [Kristina, vocalist and Copeland\u2019s former romantic partner] gets up there on stage and shit\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n The book also relates one of those so-called \u2018sliding doors\u2019 moments in life. When you called music journalist Phil Sutcliffe to get a phone number for Sting, he refused to give it. Had you not cunningly rung back when Sutcliffe was out\u2026 <\/p>\n [Interrupting] I didn\u2019t know that Phil wasn\u2019t home, and it wasn\u2019t part of some plan, I just rang again to yell at him: \u201cGive me the number, asshole!\u201d<\/p>\n Anyway, his partner gave you the phone number. Otherwise this conversation very probably wouldn\u2019t be taking place.<\/p>\n That\u2019s absolutely true. I\u2019d have gone on to become a dentist or something. Maybe a tour manager. That\u2019s one of my favourite stories from the book.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s another \u2018what if?\u2019 moment. During the earliest days of The Police, you and Sting had such a good time playing with ex-Gong bassist Mike Howlett that you could have gone down that path instead.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t think of it that way at the time. It\u2019s only now, looking back, that I\u2019m amazed Sting and I stuck together through thin and thinner with no material. We didn\u2019t have Message In A Bottle or Roxanne, just the crap songs that I\u2019d written, things like Clown\u2019s Revenge. At that point we had nothing. We were a fake punk band with no prospects. It was that day with Mike that reminded Sting of his purpose on this planet, which wasn\u2019t listening to a bunch of blarney from an American guy, but to make music.<\/p>\n Stewart Copeland | #1 on the charts | Have I Said Too Much? – YouTube Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n Do you still secretly listen to a bit of prog?<\/p>\n
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