Stewart Copeland

Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer best known as the drummer of the English rock band the Police (1977–1984, 1986, 2007–2008). Before the Police he played drums with the progressive rock band Curved Air. As a composer his work includes film scores (Wall Street, Good Burger, We Are Your Friends), TV themes (The Equalizer, The Amanda Show, Dead Like Me), video game scores (Spyro series, Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare), and pieces for ballet and opera. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003 and was ranked the 10th-best drummer of all time by Rolling Stone in 2016.