Rising Sun Presents:
Stewart Copeland - "Have I Said Too Much" at The Colonial Theatre
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Doors at 7:00 PM | Show at 8:00 PM
All Ages
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About Stewart Copeland
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After rising to international stardom as the drummer for , Stewart Copeland parlayed his success into a career as a composer, authoring a prolific series of film and television scores, video game soundtracks, and even delving into opera and ballet. Despite his origins in rock and pop, Copeland's solo career has been reliably eclectic. After his acclaimed soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish and an African-inspired solo album, The Rhythmatist, he continued to branch out both as a composer and collaborator, playing in projects like the jazzy and the funk-fusion supergroup . A high-profile reunion tour with in 2007 returned him more firmly into the rock world, as did the 2017 project . In 2022, Copeland earned a Grammy Award for Divine Tides, a collaboration with new age composer , then returned to his earlier work with the 2023 album Police Deranged for Orchestra.
Born July 16, 1952, in Alexandria, Virginia, Copeland -- the son of a CIA agent -- spent his formative years in the Middle East but attended college in California before settling in England in 1975. He joined the progressive rock outfit , working first as their road manager then as their drummer. In early 1977, following 's dissolution, he founded with singer/bassist and guitarist Henri Padovani (the latter was soon replaced by ). Beginning with their first hit, 1979's "Roxanne," the trio emerged as one of the most popular and innovative bands of the post-punk era, drawing upon reggae, funk, and world music to create a uniquely infectious yet cerebral brand of pop which generated a series of smash singles including "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic," "Every Breath You Take," and "King of Pain." While with , Copeland -- who in 1980 issued a solo record, Music Madness from the Kinetic Kid under the alias Klark Kent -- not only earned wide critical acclaim for his intricate, textured drum work, but contributed many of the group's songs as well. Among his better-known efforts are 1979's "On Any Other Day" (on which he sang lead vocals) and "Contact," as well as "Miss Gradenko" from their blockbuster 1983 hit Synchronicity. When they officially disbanded in 1986, were still more or less at their commercial peak. By that time, however, Copeland was already established as a film composer, earning a Golden Globe nomination for his score to Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel Rumble Fish. He had also released 1985's The Rhythmatist, the product of his musical pilgrimage to Africa. Despite a few forays into pop-oriented work -- he guested on 's 1986 album So and formed the late-'80s jazz-rock fusion band -- Copeland devoted the bulk of his time to an ever-increasing number of film scores. Among them were a pair of features, Wall Street and Talk Radio, in addition to acclaimed projects like Ken Loach's Raining Stones, Four Days in September, and West Beirut, as well as many more mainstream Hollywood productions. Copeland also authored the San Francisco Ballet's King Lear, the Cleveland Opera's Holy Blood and Crescent Moon, and Ballet Oklahoma's Prey. He was hired in 1998 to compose the score for the hit PlayStation video game Spyro the Dragon and has remained with the franchise, composing all of its sequels.
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