Saturday, January 21, 2023

Stewart Copeland takes us through The Police’s Humble Beginnings

THE SET LIST for the Police's first concert consisted of seven songs, and drummer Stewart Copeland estimates they got through all of them in about six minutes. "We were fast," he says. With the exception of "Landlord," which Sting cowrote, and a cover of the Animals' "It's My Life," Copeland tells Rolling Stone, the songs were "all my concoctions."