How Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Found a New Beat—in Advertising

Writing for TV spots was 'the real world,' the rock star told us

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In 2005, Stewart Copeland was 21 years out of the best job he’d ever had: playing drums for The Police. Starting in 1979, the trio led the second British invasion and eventually sold over 100 million albums.

But when the band split in 1984, Copeland went looking for a new gig. He found it doing TV commercials. In our October 17, 2005 issue, Adweek caught up with the drummer in Los Angeles on the heels of his having written the music for a Mitsubishi spot.

“We

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