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Sting Thinks He Might Have ‘Substantially Overpaid’ His Former Police Bandmates
UltimateClassicRock ^ | September 6, 2025 | Bryan Rolli

Posted on 09/08/2025 9:20:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: GrootheWanderer

Where did he say that? The thing is “we” shouldn’t be like the left/woke people and define all people who don’t agree with us as bad or “worse than Hitler.”


41 posted on 09/08/2025 10:32:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: dfwgator

I still think of Sting as the Bell Boy in Who’s movie Quadraphenia.


42 posted on 09/08/2025 10:35:30 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: dfwgator

Summers and Copeland are both fantastic musicians and should be compensated fairly. Not sure what they have in contracts, but I sure hope they got what they deserved.


43 posted on 09/08/2025 10:36:36 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: woodbutcher1963
Or Billy Idol...


44 posted on 09/08/2025 10:38:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: montag813

Arranging and writing a song are two different things.


45 posted on 09/08/2025 10:42:07 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: dfwgator

Ace Face
The Bell Boy
I gotta git runnin now, carry the bloddy baggage out

always runnin at sum ones heel


46 posted on 09/08/2025 10:49:17 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Owen
Actually all three of them are similar on that front.

Sting married a woman in the 70's, and had two children with her. They separated after the birth of the their second child, because he was having an affair with her best friend. They got married ten years later, and had four children together, so he has six total.

Summers was married for a year in 1969, then he married a woman in '73, had a daughter, then divorced in 1981. They remarried in 1985, and had twin sons, and are still married.

Copeland was married for most of the 80's. and had two children, and adopted her son from a previous marriage. He also had one extracurricular child, and he's been married to his current wife for decades and has three children with her.

47 posted on 09/08/2025 10:51:14 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: woodbutcher1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKKELGpCo6o&list=RDDKKELGpCo6o&start_radio=1


48 posted on 09/08/2025 10:51:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

AKA . . . running out of money.


49 posted on 09/08/2025 10:53:24 AM PDT by Owen
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To: nickcarraway

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/stewart-copeland-m-capitalist-over-070000252.html


50 posted on 09/08/2025 10:54:53 AM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: dfwgator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZ_47CHK6c

Quadrophenia (1979) Location - Grand Hotel, Brighton


51 posted on 09/08/2025 11:05:29 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: nickcarraway

A while back, when Greg Gutfeld was hosting “Red Eye”, Stewart Copeland was an occasional guest.

Copeland seemed to lean Libertarian. He definitely wasn’t a lefty.


52 posted on 09/08/2025 11:26:08 AM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (R.I.P. Diogo Jota! Gone too soon! You’ll never walk alone. #20 #Liverpool)
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To: nickcarraway

I remember his CHARITY! 75% admin....


53 posted on 09/08/2025 11:46:23 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US;-))
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To: nickcarraway

I’d say you are right most don’t really care. The ones that do tend to be more than a bit crazy with it.


54 posted on 09/08/2025 12:10:12 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: nickcarraway

At least Sting had the good sense not to sit next to Springsteen at the U.S. Open.


55 posted on 09/08/2025 12:13:44 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Bullish
> I’m a musician who’s very conservative in all things, and worked as a bassist for years in a band with a guitarist who was a dyed in the wool democrat. We would clash every time politics came up but we always kept it friendly so that we could make some money together. We agreed to disagree so that we could keep a band up and running. Lots of people in music are very leftist but then there’s lots of God loving conservatives like myself too.

I live in Ithaca NY where everything and I mean everything is left of center, and a lot of it is off the left end completely.

So to play music in my bands, I'm surrounded by buddies who are democrats, many of them rabid TDS victims. We aren't there to talk about politics, we're there to play rock-n-roll together, and we have a great time and much fun doing so. Hendrix sang: "Ain't no use in gettin' uptight, just let it groove..."

Music is my escape from the hard, nasty parts of life. I refuse to let it get hard and nasty too.

56 posted on 09/08/2025 4:35:05 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: nickcarraway

As far as I’m concerned, none of them shoulda have gotten paid for the pretentious garbage they perpetrated on the musical consumers

Utter trash


57 posted on 09/08/2025 4:38:19 PM PDT by 5Madman2 (Practicing random acts of Douchebaggery whenever possible)
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To: 5Madman2

How was it pretentious?


58 posted on 09/08/2025 4:39:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: dayglored

Your situation sounds just like mine was. Cheers to you and Rock on, Bud.


59 posted on 09/08/2025 5:13:03 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: nickcarraway

I thought all of their music was overblown garbage

My opinion


60 posted on 09/08/2025 5:42:51 PM PDT by 5Madman2 (Practicing random acts of Douchebaggery whenever possible)
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