The Police’s first-ever show found them playing seven songs in six minutes. Drummer Stewart Copeland has unearthed a never-before-heard demo of one of those songs as part of his upcoming book 'Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries (aka the Starving Years).'
estimates they got through all of them in about six minutes. “We were fast,” he says. With the exception of “Landlord,” which Sting cowrote, and a cover of the Animals’ “It’s My Life,” Copeland tellsOne of the set list’s curiosities is “Clown’s Revenge,” a charging prog-punk hybrid that sounds a bit like what X was doing around the same time in L.A., which Copeland wrote with his brother Ian. The Police never recorded it, but it was a staple of their early gigs.
Copeland has enjoyed reflecting on the Police’s beginnings — just after he left the prog-rock group Curved Air — and how he got the band on its feet with long-forgotten songs like “Clown’s Revenge.” “The miracle is that when Sting first arrived in London, this and other crude renderings were the material that I played him as persuasion to join my band,” Copeland says. “And he joined!
“We didn’t yet have Sting songs to work with, just my two-chord tricks with lyrics so dumb that our singer couldn’t bring himself to articulate them clearly,” he continues. “[They were] basically bass riffs with yelling. So another miracle was that we stuck together through thin and thinner and then Andy [Summers] joined us, casting aside his lucrative session career to join two fake punks long before we knew what Sting could do.
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