Stewart Copeland: Life after rock‘n’roll

Stewart Copeland is as happy as a composer and dad as he was as drummer with The Police, writes Ed Power

WHEN rockers The Police reunited in 2007 for a lucrative 18-month world tour, drummer Stewart Copeland had an unpleasant realisation. In a rock band, it’s not enough to make great music; you have to dress the part, too.

“For 20 years, I’d earned a good living composing movie scores,” Copeland says. “I would drop my kids to school, come home, work all day on music. It was a great life. I was a suburban dad.”