Stewart Copeland recently revealed which Police song he messed up.
Stewart Copeland opens up on the song
During a recent appearance on Drumeo, the drummer spoke about their 1979 song ‘Message in a Bottle.’
“It recorded very easily, I did f*ck it up though,”
When the host asked, “How so?” Copeland replied, “At the end, Andy [Summers] must have gone out to play Space Invaders or something. He was usually quality control. And at the end for some reason, because Sting just likes to sing those choruses forever. I guess he likes singing. Go figure.”
“It was sort of going nowhere so I added a bunch of crashes for extra emphasis at the end, which I now bitterly regret. And I’m asking all these years later, where was Andy when I needed him to say, ‘Copeland back off.’ Andy was very good at that,” the rocker also shared.
Copeland shared his thoughts on different Police songs before. Last year, he shared on X that he considers ‘Spirits in the Material World’ to be the band’s most technically advanced song, calling it a ‘rhythmical nightmare.’
The drummer noted, “That’s an easy one. That would be ‘Spirits In The Material World,’ which has the fewest notes, and it is very sparse but, in fact, is a rhythmic nightmare for all three of us. There is no one. This is how it goes, how simple it is [showing it on the drums]. Lost it already, see? It is very simple, but it’s on the upside down of the back of nowhere.”
Earlier this year, Copeland also talked about one of The Police’s biggest hits, ‘Roxanne.’ During the interview, the drummer said that his first impression of the song was not a good one.
