Stewart Copeland Shares Demo Langka The Police Song, Clown's Revenge

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JAKARTA - Stewart Copeland shared a rare demo of songs that were often played at the concert The Police in 1977. The song is Clown's Revenge.

"Clown's Revenge was recorded on July 14, 1976 at Florian's house [ Curved Air drummer, Florian Pilkington-Micsa] at Barnes," explained Copeland, who was the drummer for Curved Air in 1975-1976, quoted from Loudesound, Monday.

"Sonja Kristina (the vocalist of Curved Air), my brother Ian and I live there and use the warehouse to prepare our equipment and write/record songs," he continued.

"From Curved Air I have the remaining Yamaha Leslie cabinet with a reverb and recorded it to Florian Revox A77's tape machine which I finally bought from him. I immediately found that I was able to play light guitar click and became Eric

"When we moved to Mayfair and punk music appeared, Ian wrote these lyrics and sang them on my Shure m57 microphone. The song was long lost from the list of The Police song when Andy (Summers) joined, but the miracle was whenting first arrived in London, this song and other rough materials that I played were persuading for him when he joined my band. And he joined!

Outside of the demo version of the song Clown's Revenge, Stewart will launch a new cover-up daily book titled Stewart Copeland's The Police Diaries.

This book tells the story of the formation of one of The Police's formations, accompanied by previously unpublished classic photos and unreleased home demo recordings.

The book will be published by Rocket 88 Books in the fall of 2023.