Ian Copeland

Ian Adie Copeland (born April 25, 1949 in Damascus , Syria , † May 23, 2006 in Beverly Hills , USA ) was an American talent scout, prominent music agent and important promoter of the punk and new wave movement in the USA.

Life

Ian Copeland's father was former Glenn Miller trumpeter Miles Copeland Junior from Birmingham , Alabama , and his mother Lorraine Copeland Adie is a renowned Scottish archaeologist .

Ian was the second oldest of four siblings: Ian's oldest brother, Miles Copeland III , is the record producer and founder of IRS Records, his younger brother - Stewart Copeland - is the founder and drummer of The Police, and Lorraine (Lennie) Copeland is a writer / Film producer.

His father was stationed in London as a member of the Office of Strategic Services . In 1945 the family moved to Washington, DC Miles Copeland Jr. worked as a 'freelance political advisor' in the Middle East , while Mother Copeland was also active in the military intelligence service Special Operations Executive during World War II .

In 1948 the Copelands moved to Damascus, Ian's birthplace, in 1953 to Cairo and in the late 1950s to Beirut , where his father worked as a cultural attaché in the USA. This is where the Copeland siblings spent their youth and got to know the Arabic language and culture.

Shortly before the Copeland family moved back to England, Ian signed up for the US Army when he was 18 . He took in 1967 at the Vietnam War in part and returned as the Bronze Star excellent Sergeant after the end of his service to the USA. Like many other war veterans , Ian Copeland was active in the anti-war movement of the late 1960s.

In 1977 Ian Copeland married Constance Walden of Macon and had two daughters (Chandra and Barbara) with her. After his divorce, he was in a relationship with Marianne Faithfull and Courteney Cox .

Ian found his first job around 1970 in the concert agency of his brother Miles Ax Copeland in London , as tour manager of Wishbone Ash , later as an agent at John Sherry Enterprises, where he helped the Average White Band to become more widely known.

In 1977 Ian moved to Macon , Georgia to work for the Paragon Agency. With his brother Miles, he developed a marketing strategy to the supervised by Miles British band Squeeze to make the North American music market known - a concept that successfully anwandten later for more English music bands, including for the first two US tours of The Police and the music film Urgh! A Music War , with punk, new wave, reggae and techno bands from Europe and the USA , mostly overseen by IRS Records .

In 1979, Ian Copeland and Buck Williams founded Frontier Booking International (FBI) in New York City , a talent factory that looked after top-class New Wave acts of the 1980s and show stars: Adam Ant , Joan Armatrading, The B-52’s , The Bangles , Buzzcocks , Courteney Cox, The Cure , Dead Kennedys , The English Beat , Go-Go’s , Iggy Pop , Joan Jett , Morrissey , Nine Inch Nails , The Police, Ramones , REM , Sex Pistols , Simple Minds , Sting and XTC , as some of the most famous.

Copeland was also responsible for the growing success of reggae in the US by organizing concerts by UB40 , Peter Tosh , Steel Pulse and Black Uhuru .

With the restructuring of the constantly growing agency into a separate music department - InterTalent Agency - Ian Copeland moved to Los Angeles in 1992 .

His autobiography - Wild Thing: The Backstage, On the Road, In the Studio, Off the Charts Memoirs of Ian Copeland - was published in 1995.

In 1997, Ian Copeland opened the "Backstage Café" (bar and restaurant) in Beverly Hills , which he ran until his death from cancer in May 2006.

literature

• Ian Copeland: Wild Thing: The Backstage, On the Road, In the Studio, Off the Charts Memoirs of Ian Copeland. Simon & Schuster, New York 1995, ISBN 0-684-81508-7 .

Filmography

• 1981: Urgh! A Music War .... Creative Consultant
• 1998: VH1's Behind the Music (TV series, episode REM ) .... Himself
• 2006: Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out .... Himself

Web links

• "Frontier Booking International" website (English)
• "Backstage Café" website (English)
• Pictures of Ian Copeland's last birthday (2003) in the "Backstage Café"
• Ian Copeland in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Obituary in "The Hollywood Reporter" from May 25, 2006 ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ian Copeland: Putting 'The Police' on the road. (jpg) Archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; accessed on November 4, 2014 (English, interview with Ian Copeland). 
2. ↑ Copeland's FBI, ITA parting ways on Variety Business  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  
3. ^ Stewart Copeland's music documentary Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out on laut.de.
4. ↑ Inside views of a legend: Steward Copeland's documentary about 'The Police' ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on 3sat online. Interview by Ralf Rättig (Kulturzeit) with Stewart Copeland on October 25, 2006.