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The Police Have More Fun

Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1982

HELLO, SPORTS fans! We're in the 76ers' dressing room at the Spectrum in Philadelphia – but that tall, gangly fella slumped on the end of a bench isn't an exhausted ball player. It's Stewart Copeland of the Police, who's just spent 75 minutes artfully thrashing his drumkit in front of an avidly admiring throng of over 20,000.

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