16 July: Happy Birthday Stewart Copeland

Born in the United States in 1952, Stewart Copeland grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, and started playing drums to imitate his older brother Ian.

Copeland co-founded the Police with Sting, and wrote or co-wrote most of the band's early tracks. 

He has also scored various pieces of music for, ballet, opera,  orchestras. and movies, including the