Stewart Copeland explores why drums are essential to modern popular music and how they remain, across the world, the consistent force behind musical evolution.
Stewart Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer. He rose to prominence as the drummer of the British rock band The Police. He has also produced many film and video game soundtracks and written various pieces of music for ballet, opera, and orchestra. His composing work includes the films Wall Street (1987), Men At Work (1990), Good Burger (1997), and We Are Your Friends (2015), the television series The Equalizer, Dead Like Me, and The Amanda Show, and the video games Alone in the Dark 4 and the Spyro series.