| If Ian Copeland be booking shows for Frank in hebbin... [message #270702] |
Do, 25 Mai 2006 18:00 |
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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Ian Copeland, a rock music agent and
entrepreneur who represented The Police, R.E.M., Adam Ant, The Go-Go's
and other seminal rock groups that emerged in the 1970s and 1980's New
Wave and Punk scenes, has died. He was 57.
Copeland died Tuesday of melanoma, said Amy Grey, a family spokeswoman.
Copeland was one of three brothers in the family who became prominent
figures in the music industry. Younger brother Stewart was the drummer
for The Police. Older sibling Miles founded record label International
Records Syndicate.
In the mid-1970s, Copeland moved to Macon, Georgia, where he worked for
an agency booking tours for several Southern rock groups, including
Charlie Daniels, Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band.
Word of London's emerging punk rock scene excited Copeland, who sought
to get the agency he was working for to bring the raw new British bands
to U.S. venues.
It didn't work. But when his brother Miles signed the British band
Squeeze, the two siblings arranged for the band to tour small clubs in
the U.S. They used the same strategy to promote other bands, including
The Police and the B-52s.
In 1978, Copeland moved to New York and launched Frontier Booking
International. The young talent agency represented New Wave and punk
acts such as Adam Ant, The Bangles, The Smiths, Joan Jett and the
Blackhearts and the Dead Kennedys among others.
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| Re: If Ian Copeland be booking shows for Frank in hebbin... [message #270703 ] |
Do, 25 Mai 2006 18:51 |
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In article <1148572826.237019.57150 [at] j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Mike Espinoza" <espinoza [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> Younger brother Stewart was the drummer for The Police.
> Older sibling Miles founded record label International Records
> Syndicate.
[IRS]
> In 1978, Copeland moved to New York and launched Frontier Booking
> International.
[FBI]
And their father was in the (real) CIA.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Copeland,_Jr.>
--Charles
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