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Strange Things Happen

A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies

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Strange Things Happen

By: Stewart Copeland
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 When Stewart Copeland gets dressed, he has an identity crisis. Should he put on "leather pants, hostile shirts, and pointy shoes"? Or wear something more appropriate to the "tax-paying, property-owning, investment-holding lotus eater" his success has allowed him to become? This dilemma is at the heart of Copeland's vastly entertaining memoir-in-stories, Strange Things Happen. The world knows Copeland as the drummer for The Police, one of the most successful bands in rock history. But they may not know as much about his childhood in the Middle East as the son of a CIA agent. Or be aware of his film-making adventures with the Pygmies in the deepest reaches of the Congo, and his passion for polo (Brideshead Revisited on horses).

In Strange Things Happen we move from Copeland's remarkable childhood to the formation of The Police, their rise to stardom, and the settled-down life that followed. It ends with a behind-the-scenes view of The Police's extraordinarily successful reunion tour. It's a book of amazing anecdotes, all completely true, which take us backstage in a life that is fully lived.

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A fascinating and funny insight into the culture of celebrity. The sacred, the profane, the exotic and mundane. What we (the fans) saw versus the behind-the-scenes realities, and the machines and creatives who made these realities and illusions happen. And still do. I’m surprised that Stewart was able to sit still long enough to compile these wonderfully illustrative anecdotes and insights. Loved it!

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Loved it. This is one book that bears multiple listens, humourous, eccentric and radical at times, and downright confronting at other times. Great read.

An insight into the mind of Mr Copeland

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