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Miles Copeland: Where's the Police chief?

Chris Campion, The Observer, 2 September 2007

AS THE POLICE prepare to finally hit home turf on their reunion tour, one figure conspicuously absent from all the reappraisals of their career is the band's original manager. Miles Copeland, Drummer Stewart's elder brother, was the single most important figure in the band's success; the brain behind-the-scenes who cut the deals and strategised their rise to the top. He was, in effect, the fourth Police man.

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