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Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies by Stewart Copeland — Book Review (189)

October 21, 2009 By Mary

Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies by Stewart Copeland

LOVED IT
Smart, snarky and smug. I never imagined that a drummer could be so intelligent nor could I imagine that one could put together a coherent thought together. (OK, so I have known a lot of drummers in my life and most of them weren’t the brightest.) There are some amusing anecdotes in this book but I didn’t quite get the movie portion of the book. You could see how creative types can clash when they all think that their way is the best. The best story is when Prince of Wales hit his car at a polo match right after he told Princess Diana to not sit on his precious Aston Martin. If you are looking for a note by note history of the Police’s reunion tour, it is not here, but you really get a good feel for the lifestyle. I received this book from the publisher.

Product Description
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.

Product Details
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: HarperStudio (September 29, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061791490
ISBN-13: 978-0061791499

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