Ian Copeland, music booking agent who represented acts like Joan Jett, R.E.M., Squeeze, The Police, B-52s, Ramones, and the Cure; who wrote Wild Thing, and was brother to Police drummer Stewart Copeland, has lost his life to skin cancer. Copeland wrote his autobiographical memoir, Wild Thing: The Backstage, on the Road, in the Studio, Off the Charts Memoirs of Ian Copeland, chronicling his early life as the son of a father who was both jazz musician and CIA intelligence officer and a mother who was both spy and archeologist -- to his wild adventures as a rock music agent. He spent most of his adult life working in the music industry.
"Everybody has always said my brother Ian would have been a more charismatic rock star than anybody he has ever represented," Stewart Copeland told People magazine in 1995. "But instead of shouting to a sea of faces, he'd much rather sit at the dinner table and regale everybody personally." Copeland was 57.
Photo: Ian Copeland (left) with brothers Stewart (centre) and Miles (right)
1. Gone but never fogotten.
"Cheers and regards" Ian!
We love and miss you.
John Wicks
Posted at 11:54PM on May 30th 2006 by John Wicks