SN8 | Ep382 - Miles Copeland - Music & Entertainment Executive

It isn't very often that you get to listen like a friend to a bonafide music legend...Our VERY Special Guest today is Music Manager-Executive Icon Miles Copeland!Mike Gormley Interviews...You don't want to miss these personal behind-the-story accounts of how music was made...Miles Copeland's NEW book is TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK Miles tells his extraordinary story of a maverick manager, promoter, label owner, and all-round legend of the music industry. It opens in the Middle East, where Miles grew up with his father, a CIA agent who was stationed in Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon. It then shifts to London in the late 60s and the beginnings of a career managing bands—only for Miles’s life and work to be turned upside down by a disastrous European tour.From the ashes of near bankruptcy, Miles entered the world of punk, sharing a building with Malcolm McLaren and Sniffin’ Glue, before shifting gears again as manager of The Police, featuring his brother Stewart Copeland on drums. After founding IRS Records, he launched the careers of some of the most potent musical acts of the new wave scene and beyond, from Squeeze and The Go-Go’s to The Bangles and R.E.M.The story comes full circle as Miles finds himself advising thePentagon on how to win over hearts and minds in the Middle East and introducing Arabic music to the United States. ‘Never let the truth get in the way of a good story,’ his father would tell him. In the end, though, the truth is what counts—and it’s all here.Pick up your copy of Miles Copeland's NEW book is TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACKOrder here! https://amzn.to/3h8QObm