Stewart Copeland has looked back on the moment he saw Sting for the first time, admitting he instantly realized the bassist would be his “meal ticket.”
It was 1976 and Copeland had a night off from his band at the time, Curved Air. The drummer reached out to journalist Phil Sutcliffe to see if there were any gigs worth checking out.
“Sutcliffe took us to see the local hot cool jazz band which was called Last Exit,” Copeland recalled during an appearance on The Bob Lefsetz Podcast. “And they had rather a useful looking bass player.”
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Stewart Copeland Instantly Knew Sting Would Be His 'Meal Ticket' |