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  Stewart Copeland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Copeland was born in Alexandria, Egypt, the youngest of four children.
Copeland is known for a blend of precise, energetic, and creative rock drumming along with a reggae-influenced style (back beat with bass drum, instead of snare drum).
Copeland also recorded under the pseudonym Klark Kent, releasing several UK singles in 1978 with one, "Don't Care", entering the UK charts that year) along with an eponymously titled 10-inch album on green vinyl released in 1980.
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 Miles Copeland III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His brother, Stewart Copeland was part of the pop-rock trio The Police, which Miles managed.
Miles was born in London, England to Miles Axe Copeland, Jr.
Miles married Adriana Corajoria, an artist and model from Argentina, in 1989.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miles_Copeland_III   (338 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Message In A Box: The Complete Recordings [Box] - The Police at Epinions.com
Copeland paid his dues drumming for Curved Air, a progressive rock group who were never to fully take off; Gordon Sumner (named Sting after a nifty little fl and yellow sweater he was prone to wear in his very early days performing) played bass in a failing Newcastle jazz group called Last exit.
Son of a CIA chief (Miles Copeland II), Miles and Stewart had spent their childhood partly in the middle east and partly at school in the UK.
Miles Copeland instantly recognised that this was music of a class that his small label wasn't capable of handling.
www.epinions.com /content_61751004804   (2850 words)

  
 IMG Speakers -Speakers Bureau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
When Miles Axe Copeland III was born on May 2, 1944, there was a very bright star that night though no one is certain which star it was.
Miles' father, Miles Axe Copeland, Jr., was stationed in England in the American army doing counter-intelligence where he met and married young Miles' future mother, Lorraine Adie, who was in British Intelligence.
Miles recorded John Cale, Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, Chelsea, The Cortina's, Sham 69, The Cramps, The Fall, Alternative TV and both The Police's and Squeeze's first singles.
www.imgspeakers.com /speaker_detail.asp?SpeakerID=177   (1978 words)

  
 Copeland Presbyterian Church - Map & Directions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Copeland Presbyterian Church is on the right side of the road at the intersection of Copeland and Wells Roads.
Copeland Presbyterian Church is on the left side of the road at the intersection of Copeland and Wells Roads.
Copeland Presbyterian Church is on the right side of the road at the corner of Copeland and Wells Roads.
home.hiwaay.net /~copeland/map.htm   (357 words)

  
 biography
Miles Copeland remained a high flyer in the corridors of power and is even now a close friend of George Bush, then director of the CIA.
Miles would then involve Stewart in Curved Air, a prog-rock band which was in need of a new drummer -- they were facing severe financial woes and had to regroup to record and tour to get out of debt.
Miles: 'When I started reading about these punks and how they didn't want all this fancy equipment, all this sort of stuff, it was like reading...God had descended and answered my prayers, you know.
www.sockiipress.org /copeland/bio.html   (1426 words)

  
 Bellyqueen - Time Out Article
In 1981, Copeland's artists were responsible for 2% of the United States' record market, which all helped buy him his LA home, a house in St John's Wood in London, and a castle in the Dordogne.
Copeland is unashamedly patriotic, a preacher for free-enterprise capitalism and a ruthless negotiator.
Copeland pays his girls royalties from DVD sales, and now the top half-dozen are on a salary, so they don't have to work in clubs.
www.bellyqueen.com /pressSundayTimes.html   (1680 words)

  
 Miles Copeland (Captain)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Miles, a pacey midfielder, is first team captain for the 2001-2 season.
Having served his apprenticeship as vice-captain under Danny Green, Miles is looking to emerge from the shadows and take the college footballing scene by storm.
Away from the football pitch, Miles is a shy and retiring creature, never previously known to attend a bop or social function, never touching alcohol (he's holding a glass of water) and having little knowledge of the fairer sex.
www-stu.cai.cam.ac.uk /~gcafc/cfmiles.html   (128 words)

  
 Miles Copeland III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
MILES A. When Miles Axe Copeland III was born on May 2, 1944, there was a very bright star that night though no one is certain which star it was.
Miles nack of marrying art and commerce to mutual advantage led to a number of lucrative speaking engagements, something Miles likes to do and seems to be good at.
Miles is particularly proud of the pairing of Mario with the Moody Blues Justin Hayward on Nights in White Satin, which is sung in Italian and English.
131.103.199.87 /milescopeland.html   (4885 words)

  
 American Girls - a band profile & fan site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Copeland had accumulated a stack of rock-themed movie scripts - originally submitted as vehicles for IRS's The Go-Go's - and over dinner voiced the idea that the time was ripe for a rock band comprised of women who were each attractive, musically competent and could act.
Copeland began pitching the concept to various movie studios and a development deal was evidently struck with Columbia Pictures.
Miles Copeland attempted to land them a record deal with various labels, but ended up releasing those basement tapes as the band's sole album on his own IRS Records in 1986.
www.aurealm.com /american.htm   (963 words)

  
 National Review: Miles Copeland, R I P - former CIA official - obituary
A veteran of Wild Bill Donovan's wartime OSS, and a founding father of CIA, Miles Copeland was posted to Damascus in the late Forties when the former British and French protectorates in the Middle East and Africa were gaining their independence.
Secretary, why don't we just tell the truth?" Miles leaned back in his chair, his eyes crinkling in anticipation: "The look of Machiavellian cunning that the suggestion brought to the Secretary's kindly old face," he said, "was an inspiration to us all." Miles Copeland's last piece for NR was written during the 1988 campaign.
Miles Copeland was a gentleman, a patriot, and an unorthodox operative-in some ways a perennial boy whose puckish humor tended to overshadow his deep seriousness of purpose and dedication to his country.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n2_v3/ai_9859079   (653 words)

  
 The I.R.S. Records Story at Mr Bill's I.R.S. Records Corner: The history of I.R.S. Records!
Miles Copeland III was the oldest of three brothers, born to Miles Copeland Jr.
Miles Copeland Jr.'s travels and assignments around the world gave the Copeland children a "real world view" most Americans can't experience or understand until well into adulthood, if ever.
By 1975, in the UK where Miles and Stewart were living and breathing the music life, the stirrings of a new musical undercurrent were growing.
www.irscorner.com /irsstory.html   (912 words)

  
 Part 2 of The I.R.S. Records Story at Mr Bill's I.R.S. Records Corner: The history of I.R.S. Records!
Miles Copeland was still living most of the year in the UK at this point so he needed a savvy music industry insider to run his US operation.
Miles soon promoted Boberg to President of the label and the staff grew from just the two of them in LA to 17 (in four cities) by the time I.R.S. became an MCA subsidiary in 1985.
Miles signed Jello Biafra's controversial band Dead Kennedys and was plannig a December 25 release date for their debut LP, Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables.
www.irscorner.com /irsstory2.html   (1010 words)

  
 JS Online: Belly-dance promoter banging tambourines loudly
Miles Copeland's belly dancers are anything but "fat and ugly." Copeland hopes to challenge "Riverdance," "Lord of the Dance" and ballet companies with his dance tour.
Copeland, 60, is an intense, sometimes Barnum-esque music executive who over the last 25 years has managed or signed such bands as R.E.M. and the Police; he's the older brother of Police drummer Stewart Copeland.
Copeland says his interest got serious in 2002, when he sponsored a belly-dance competition in Hollywood to promote an Arabic record and contestants came from all over the United States.
www.jsonline.com /enter/gen/jan05/295836.asp   (1008 words)

  
 The Daily Star - Arts & Culture - Miles Copeland III: Belly dance man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Copeland's affinity for Arab music and culture comes from a youth spent growing up in the Middle East and since Sept. 11, 2001, he has been on a mission to introduce the arts and culture of the region to the West.
Miles was born on May 2, 1944, during the London Blitz.
Miles III was president of his senior class at Beirut's American Community School and earned a fl belt in judo.
www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=3311   (1728 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
His father, Miles Copeland Jr., was not only a former trumpeter in the Glenn Miller Orchestra but one of the founding field officers of the CIA, America's often infamous intelligence service, and later a freelance political adviser to the sheikhs and oil barons of the Middle East.
At the end of the '60s, Miles III quit the stockbroking world he'd previously seen as his vocation and started a record company and agency in England specialising in Progressive bands like Wishbone Ash, Renaissance and the Climax Blues Band.
Then Ian returned a bemedalled hero from a voluntary tour of duty in Vietnam, went to work for Miles and found that he was a natural telephone sweettalker, born to be an agent.
www.bcpl.net /~mmugmon/police/copeland.html   (630 words)

  
 CIA
Copeland told Parry: "The way we saw Washington at that time (1980) was that the struggle was really not between the left and the right, the liberals and the conservatives, as between the Utopians and the realists, the pragmatists.
Copeland said that during the Iranian hostage crisis, neither the CIA nor the Iranians wanted Carter to get credit for the release of the hostages.
Raymond, Copeland and Kennon typify the CIA view: Democracy should be superceded by a CIA-run government (complete with torture and assassinations) and the American people are "sheep" to be manipulated toward that end.
victorian.fortunecity.com /brambles/499/Special_Reports/CIA/cia.html   (1126 words)

  
 Sting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The rock'n'roll details of his youth are that he started on drums at 12 and a year later played his first gig and lost his virginity on the same night -not a bad start.
His father, Miles Copeland Jr, was not only a former trumpeter in the Glenn Miller orchestra but one of the founding field officers of the CIA, America's often infamous intelligent service, and later a freelance political adviser to the sheikhs and oil barons of the Middle East.
And that was when, quite unpredictably, the Copeland brothers, who'd fought like dogs through their teens, were drawn back together by rock'n'roll.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/3125/stewart.htm   (373 words)

  
 Miles Copeland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
MILES A. When Miles Axe Copeland III was born on May 2, 1944, there was a very bright star in the sky, though no one is certain which star it was.
Miles went on to title the next two albums, “Regatta de Blanc” and “Zenyatta Mondatta.” Miles’ original title for the third LP was “Trimondo Blondomina” (three blondes conquering three worlds), but it was a bit too much for Sting.
Miles, attending to music management; Ian, involved as a music agent; and, Stewart, a talented composer, engaged as a drummer in The Police- all were iconoclasts.
www.milescopeland.com   (6599 words)

  
 St. Patrick's sounds — Pop Stops for 3/14/02 by John Everson
Love and Copeland spoke to packed halls (nearly 100 photographers lined up three deep at The Start of Love's session), as part of the annual music industry convention, which over the past two decades has come to help define the next fad in pop and rock music.
Copeland talked of the importance of using longterm contracts as leverage oints in negotiating a deal for an unknown band with a record label.
Copeland told bands of the things they should consider when negotiating a record deal (from percentage points of sales to advances to other contractual wiles).
www.popstops.net /sxsw.htm   (1753 words)

  
 Stewart Copeland 101
A person might deduce from this scene that Stewart Copeland and Sting were like a match to a tinderbox, a moth to a flame, a very destructive pair.
Miles Copeland II, Stewart's father, worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and has authored several out-of-print books on the subject.
The Copelands were living in Beirut, and Ian had landed a replacement drummer gig in a local band called the Nomads.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/Sting/40634   (548 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Bellydance Superstars to visit S.L. | Deseret Morning News Web edition
But it's not like it was when Copeland was trying to get the Sex Pistols in working order — back when disco was the king of the airwaves in the late 1970s.
His father, Miles Copeland Jr., was a co-founder of the Central Intelligence Agency and was stationed in the Middle East, where the younger Copeland grew up.
Copeland has seen the success and potential of Arabian music, even after the backlash of 9/11, and started up the Mondo Melodia label, which works with Arabian singers.
deseretnews.com /dn/print/1,1442,600106404,00.html   (823 words)

  
 Don't Stand So Close To Me
Miles Copeland, the manager for the Police, slams the flat of his palms squarely onto Sting's dining room table.
Miles insists that a new song or two is crucial to stirring up interest on radio and motivating fans, who might already have most of the albums, to buy the package to make their collection complete.
Copeland is due back in a day or two and Andy doesn't even want to think about how he'll react.
www.sockiipress.org /copeland/dssctm.html   (4913 words)

  
 popCULT: OP ED: Polar Levine Responds To Miles Copeland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Miles Copeland has a brilliant reputation for fighting hard on his artists’ behalf against exploitative contracts he'd been offered.
Copeland argues that an artist who owes the label a certain number of albums can just go off and do movie scores, getting around to those albums when ever he feels like it.
Copeland’s arguments resonate to some degree only if you agree that keeping this dinosaur of a music distribution system alive is important.
www.polarity1.com /bla111801.html   (1805 words)

  
 The Bottom Line #82   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Miles was born in England, so that may perhaps account for his accent.
Copeland was also the Police's best musician in its early days, at least in my opinion.
Second, Copeland's solo career pretty much disintegrated, as the Police became so big that he was forced to devote his full attention to the band.
www.amscons.com /tblarchive/VOL2003/0-99/bl82.html   (3249 words)

  
 dmusic.com - The Titanic Sails at Dawn-Marsh on Music
Miles Copeland is the son and namesake of a notorious CIA ferret, who boasts about his role in overthrowing democratic governments in Iran and Egypt.
Our Miles Copeland, former manager of the Police and current owner of Ark 21 Records, is a propagandist for the virtuous entrepreneurship.
Copeland does this by insisting that the bad guys are greedy artists and thieving consumers.
news.dmusic.com /print/4330   (456 words)

  
 Just Plain Cher - Cher Music, Photos, Movies, Pictures, Videos - CHER AU CATEAU DE COPELAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Today, thanks to Miles A. Copeland III, the poet-musician is still the center of attention around Marouatte, a romantic and stunning castle in southwest France.
Miles Copeland: I think it was all a little strange for her initially.
Miles Copeland: One night, we had a very big Italian artist by the name of Zucchero show up.
www.justplaincher.net /article81.html   (622 words)

  
 Miles Copeland Jr. | MetaFilter
Copeland had knowledge of (and possibly involvement with) the delay in the release of the U.S. hostages in iran.
As an alas fairly irrelevant aside, I've met Miles Copeland III, as he is a fairly important producer in the bellydance world these days, running Bellydance Superstars, possibly the highest-profile American-based touring bellydance troupe around, and some other up-and-coming groups.
I've also met Miles Copeland III, back around '89 or so when I was working with Amnesty International and when he was managing Sting.
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